Reply #5: I work on clinical trials

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and this statement..
We already know that clinical trials are rife with fraud. Most of the clinical trials used by pharmaceutical companies to win FDA approval of their drugs, for example, are funded by pharmaceutical companies. And it is a verifiable fact that most clinical trials tend to find results that favor the financial interests of whatever organization paid for them. So what's to stop Big Pharma from scheming up the perfect placebo that would harm patients just enough to make their own drugs look good by comparison?

IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT. Clinical trials are 10 YEARS of arduous research on humans ..thats not EVEN counting the years and years of pre-clinical toxicological animal testing. Only 30% of drugs that start trials even get to market stage. I've encountered bad data in a clinical trial ONCE in 15 years of work..and that was for something still in the experimental stage.
You know what they use for placebos in most trials? Saline solutions! EEEK EVUL! No one needs to say what their placebo is, thats not necessary to the testing.
God, this post is incredibly dumb and willfully ignorant.
But you can go and get cyanide marketed as a cancer cure from homopaths and naturopaths legally. Or a sugar pill can be marketed as a treatment for malaria and HIV by homopaths with NO DATA what so ever.
Spare me from fundamentalist idiots because thats what you are.