Big Pharma’s Dirty Secret: How Its Math Misleads Doctors and Patients
Do you know how effective your medicine really is? Drug companies have a secret strategy: statistics! Their math misleads too many patients.
The pharmaceutical industry is unbelievably lucrative. According to numerous analysts, drug companies grossed more than $600,000,000,000 last year. In case that many zeroes is a ...
bit mind boggling, that’s over $600 billion! By 2030 the number is estimated to be close to $900 billion. You may not realize that drug companies are far more profitable than other large corporations (JAMA, March 3, 2020). What is even more troubling, though, is how little you get for your money. Big Pharma nurtures a dirty secret. It’s figured out how math misleads doctors and patients.