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Tuesday, May 3. 2011

Why getting new medicines is so difficult

Megan McArdle discusses in Why Don't We Have Better Birth Control?


You can sense, in the question she addresses, that childlike yearning for a scientific and medical utopia from which, presumably, unfair forces are excluding us. I call them Edenic fantasies.


The comment thread is interesting in that regard as well.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 16:34 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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All I wanna do is have some fun. Why, why, why must there be consequences?
#1 Texan99 (Link) on 2011-05-03 17:34 (Reply)
There is better birth control. It is called getting your tubes tied. Or, abstaining.

Unless one is not willing to go those two routes, suck it up and take the pill.
#2 Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas (Link) on 2011-05-03 18:17 (Reply)
I come from the opposite point of view I guess. I loved having children so the idea of an "accident" never worried me much, and I managed to get by without artificial hormones.

Why is modern life so complicated?
#3 LP on 2011-05-03 18:43 (Reply)
At 465 comments as of now, I'm not going to read them.

I don't believe the forces are unfair, as a whole, though some of them are.
#4 Sam L. on 2011-05-03 21:07 (Reply)
Well, if developing new medicines is all that easy, Ann Friedman and her whining female friends should just get their own PhDs in chemistry, biology, etc., get involved in attacking the problem, and make their own discovery of the magic bullet they assume must already exist were it not for the evil drug companies.

As I always tell my doctor when I decide to ignore his advice but don't want him to feel I'm disrespecting him or his honorable calling, the universe is a far less complicated puzzle for physicists than is the human body for physicians.
#5 Agent Cooper on 2011-05-03 21:08 (Reply)
"Edenic fantasies." Good phrase.
#6 DrTorch on 2011-05-04 09:25 (Reply)

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