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comment by thundara
Looked it up, since I was curious, and surprisingly, the US federal government doesn't actually oversee the clinical trials, though the FDA does audit them to make sure they are correctly following procedure. They at least are run by independent organizations from the pharmaceutical companies. Still, I'd expected the process to be a bit...better than that.




kuli  ·  4687 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thought to ponder:

How many of those "independent" companies are funded, in part, by the pharmaceutal industry?

thundara  ·  4687 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Well, clinical trials cost a truckload of arms and legs, and it's usually pharmaceutical companies footing the bill. So in that sense, all of them are.