Pharmaceutical Companies

[randomshenans]

As I work in IT, I couldn't really give a hoot, in honesty. I think people will always distort information to suit their agenda. I'm all for transparency, but as I said, you want something to suit your agenda and you'll distort data to fit that.

A lot of drug discovery can be like shooting ants in a swimming pool of black water. It's really not easy (especially when I, from IT look at what they do in the labs, mindblowingly complex). A had lunch with someone in Chemistry the other week, and a compound she was working on when she joined the company 10yrs ago, is only just in phase 2 clin.
There are things that IT Engineering are doing to try and help scientists run a computational analysis of compound interaction (when you add 2 compounds together etc) so they can run it theoretically and analyse the output before having to do it for real, therefore speeding up the experimental phase, but it's so crazy complex.

 

[Energize]

No, I didn't change the subject anyone who can read can follow the thread and follow from my response to Dimples post.

So you were offering a "politicians answer" then, instead of just admitting you misunderstood. I understand now.

It was not rudeness it was a suggestion that if you had not actually professionally administered, prescribed or dispensed drugs and/or had serious research to back up your claims that directly went opposite to drug protocols across the world then your claim was just that an unsubstantiated and unweighted opinion of little value.

No you were suggesting I got information from wikipedia, now in a very childish manner you are acting all innocent.

If you had the experience (which going from memory you do not) or you did have a good research base then I am sure in true GD fashion you would have provided a good source or answered my question straight away. That you are still unable to do so speaks volumes. Good science involves not trusting anything that is unsubstantiated - kind of what I am doing with your opinion.

You are asking me to back up a statement I didn't make, you wrongly thought I was referring to dispensing mistakes which I wasn't.

 

[Xordium]

And where do you get that from. If you are going to say something then at least back it up. I don't even know what you are going on about - so at least we are both now on the same page because you clearly don't.

 

[Energize]

What I'm saying is, in their current format the use of generic drugs is more likely to result in a patient taking the wrong pill accidentally because of it's changing shape and colour as pharmacies change the manufacturer they use, which is what Dimple was frustrated with himself as a patient.

A statement you clearly agree with given that you advocate that generic drugs should be manufactured to a common standard to prevent that very problem.