I’m talking much higher up the chain, with the NIH, Big Pharma and what studies get funded, what miracle drugs get promoted. Not sure IIRC, but it seems as if you have been at some level involved in medical research, so you might fiercely defend against this, but it’s been shown pretty clearly. And Fauci tried to dismiss chloroquine when Trump brought it up—and fully funded lots of new drug studies.
It was actually Dr. Oz at Columbia who himself had to fund and get going the big study now in NYC.
big pharma will fund studies for their drugs of course. They cannot get approval without studies. I am grateful that they go to us to comeupwith new therapies. While I am not a fan of big pharma I do u defer and for every drug they spend billions bringing to market 9 more washout. Once the drug is on the market the lawyer sharks immediately start circling.
i have nothing to do with medical research. But the pressure is always to use a cheaper drug if two drugs do basically the same thing.