Cult of Randomized Controlled Trials Debunked

"A pharma company can run as many RCTs as it likes. Suppose it ran 100, and the results of 98 showed that the drug either didn’t work or was dangerous (or both), but 2 RCTs showed that the drug has some benefit and the side-effects are moderate to low. The pharma company can take these 2 RCTs to the FDA and get the drug approved, and the FDA doesn’t need to, and in fact won’t, ask if those 2 trials were the only ones conducted. The results of 98 failed RCTs simply disappear. The public has no way of accessing that data; in fact, even the FDA has no way of accessing it, and no one other than the pharma officials knows that it even exists."

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