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May 17, 2005
A little bracing whiff of incompleteness
I love reading Derek Lowe -- he reminds me how far we are from those 120 year lifespans. Like this fragment from yesterday's entry:
Those two examples show you exactly why we're not awash in those wonderful 90's drugs right now. The most important parts of drug development are not yet amenable to a rational approach. We simply don't know enough. If any of the companies developing oral IIb/IIIa ligands thought there was a good chance that they'd lose out to aspirin, of all the cheap competitors, they'd have run away screaming. But they didn't know, and the only way to find out was to spend the money and take the risk. No fancy graphics could have saved them.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 17, 2005 7:53 AM