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TOP-Ed: Selling the Same Old Snake Oil: CTA Lauds QEIA, Despite Enormous Expense and Marginal Impact
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Publication date: Dec 9, 2010
Original URL: https://west.edtrust.org/node/2121
Drug companies often hire researchers to evaluate the prescription medicines theyve designed. Without fail, the studies reveal surprise! that the drugs work. Then, when they want the public to pay top dollar for a product, the drug companies dig up wise-looking doctors in lab coats who tout the research-based benefits in television commercials.
