6-6-07 Statistical Analysis
Is it Science or is it Statistical Analysis or is it "stat cooking"? When it comes to the process whereby drug companies get their new drug products tested, it's beginning to look more and more like the same sort of manipulation that brought the term "WMD" into the language, ie- someone's cooking the statistics.
In this Science Daily article we find that statistical analysis of drug testing shows that if the drug company pays for the testing, the results are much more likely to come out in their favor.
Duh!
But we need this sort of statistical analysis to "prove" that something might be amiss, don't we? Especially after millions of tons of statin drugs have been consumed by the population for over a decade, and the drug companies have made their billions and billions of dollars in profit. Who cares whether the science involved in all of this is completely absent? At least the stockholders were given a good ride, eh?
In this Science Daily article we find that statistical analysis of drug testing shows that if the drug company pays for the testing, the results are much more likely to come out in their favor.
Duh!
But we need this sort of statistical analysis to "prove" that something might be amiss, don't we? Especially after millions of tons of statin drugs have been consumed by the population for over a decade, and the drug companies have made their billions and billions of dollars in profit. Who cares whether the science involved in all of this is completely absent? At least the stockholders were given a good ride, eh?
posted by Jeff Barnard at 5:10 AM
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