[fithisux]

The current flu vaccines were already effective

[panja]

Well these are more effective, apparently

[gitaarik]

According to a Pfizer backed study..

[signatoremo]

Phase 3 trial, not just any study. The results are required by FDA in order to approve the vaccine.

[gitaarik]

The point being that it's backed by the company that's producing the product

[jfengel]

Nobody else is going to back such a study. So that's going to be true for every drug.

[gitaarik]

Indeed. And pharmaceutical companies will never do studies for medicines they cannot patent. And you can't patent natural medicines, only synthetic. So only the synthetic ones that are created by them are being studied and are the only "proven" medicine.

Convenient not?

Maybe we should have an independent institute backed by citizens, that does these studies, for both natural and synthetic medicines.

But that would destroy the pharmaceutical industry.