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by gruseom 5493 days ago
That's misleading. Many of the most profitable pharmaceuticals (e.g. SSRIs, as Irving Kirsch devastatingly established - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622912) are known not to work anywhere near that well, if "work" means significance beyond placebo. There is even powerful evidence against the claim that they work at all.