Frantz, Sue wrote: > > > Through the Improbable Research blog comes this article from Wired, > "Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know > Why." > http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all > > ** > > > > An excerpt: > > Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, > are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are > the compounds that, in the late '90s, made Big Pharma more profitable > than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might > not approve some of them. >
I doubt that the FDA wouldn't approve them. The FDA hasn't been very independent for a very long time. Nevertheless, I recall reading years ago that there never were any double-blind clinical trials on Prozac that are worthy of the name. Apparently the side effects of Prozac are so pronounced in so many people that the vast majority of the experimental subjects were well aware that they were on the drug virtually from the outset. Placebo effects ensued rapidly. Regards, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
