Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Malcolm Kendrick

Quote by Malcolm Kendrick

Work

Doctoring Data

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Malcolm Kendrick

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Malcolm Kendrick. more

You May Also Like

“Skeptics might argue that pharmaceutical companies will fight anything that casts their products in a dubious light - especially if it results in people using lower doses across the board - but the truth is that, for many drug companies, reliable information on the placebo effect can't come soon enough. To pass muster, a drug must outperform placebo. But a 2001 study of antidepressant drug trials showed that while drug efficacy is rising, placebo rates are rising faster. It's almost ironic; the factors behind this are many and varied, but a significant contributor is our society's knowledge of - and belief in - the power of medicines. The pharmaceutical industry's palpable success means that unless something radical happens, it could soon be, like the Red Queen, running to stand still.”

PlaceboPharmaceutical Industry
Book:13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Create image

“Why we have such a frightening rise in mental health illnesses in our country? Are there legitimate causes, or do we have a whole mental health industrial complex benefiting from over diagnosing, over prescribing, and over pathologizing? Have we created such a stifling, unfair, and unfulfilling society, including employment and social conditions, that have caused so much depression and other mental health illnesses to an increasing number of people? Or is it a combination of all these issues?”

DepressionMental HealthMental IllnessLiabilityPharmaceutical IndustryHealthcare ReformHealthcare System
Author:Louis Yako
Create image

“Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him at gunpoint to perform a delicate operation. The man would burst into tears. However, if one were to ask him to sound off on problems such as nuclear experiments, Vietnam, the borders of Israel, support for Indonesia, aid to Latin America, or recognition of Red China, in most cases he would start spouting opinions.”

PoliticsDemocracyExpertsSpecialistsSpecializationUniversal Suffrage
Book:Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
Create image