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“Consider the people who have an interest in getting drugs approved quickly, without necessarily waiting for longer, more comprehensive trials. The patients, for sure. . .but the companies developing the drugs are very much in favor of this system as well. Why wouldn’t they be? Their drugs get to be sold years before they might be otherwise, and if those drugs turn out not to really be efficacious in the end, after all the numbers have come in, well. . .that’s a shame. Really. But no one gets any refunds.”
“Consider the people who have an interest in getting drugs approved quickly, without necessarily waiting for longer, more comprehensive trials. The patients, for sure. . .but the companies developing the drugs are very much in favor of this system as well. Why wouldn’t they be? Their drugs get to be sold years before they might be otherwise, and if those drugs turn out not to really be efficacious in the end, after all the numbers have come in, well. . .that’s a shame. Really. But no one gets any refunds.”
