Big Pharma
January 21, 2008
I feel deceived and I am angry about it.
Apparently only solid data re Prozac was released to the public and as part of Eli Lilly’s approval data for its new drug application. I have just become a little more cynical and I, a member of the pharmaceutical community, don’t know what to think anymore.
I hardly feel I have credibility with myself anymore. All the things I said in support of SSRI’s stemmed directly from the data. The data, the unobjective, peer-reviewed, statistically-significant data. Now I don’t feel I can even depend on that anymore, because of Big Pharma’s manipulation of truth, and all to the mighty dollar.
I have friends who are of the woo-woo/New Age persuasion, and this only makes them dig in more. And, I have to say, I feel myself floating more to that end of the spectrum. Toward conspiracies. Toward suspicious and skeptical. I think it’s good to be a skeptical person, but I don’t think it’s good to question everything, to be looking to be duped around every corner. I don’t like it, and it’s not the kind of world I want to live in.
Rowr!
