--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I'll want to see another large study, and > preferably not sponsored by the drug > company....Besides, if you *really* want to live > longer, go for the significantly-restricted-calories > diet -- that makes rats and earthworms (IIRC) live > almost twice their normal lifespan! Of course > they're > hungry their whole lives, but that's surely a small > price to pay for longevity, eh? :P > > Debbi
Let me re-emphasize this. PROVE-IT was sponsored by the drug company _whose drug did poorly in the study_. Pfizer did not pay for PROVE-IT. BMS did. I have helped design drug company clinical trial strategies, and we don't rig them.
My complaint was not that the study might have been rigged to make a particular company's drug look better than the other, but the implication of the story that huge numbers of people who are not on medication now apparently need to be on daily medication for the rest of their lives.
Personally, Debbi, I'd prefer taking a pill every day than the sort of nanny-stateism that has the government dictating what I eat every day.
Personally, I don't want either.
-- Ronn! :)
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