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Targeted research

Brian Cox investigates the modern pharmaceutical industry at GlaxoSmithKline. He learns that drugs are not discovered by accident, but that the process usually begins with a library of chemicals that can be tested in automated processes to find out which ones are potentially beneficial. However, Cox goes on to explain that targeted research does not tend to report negative results of these trials, unlike the traditional academic press (journals). This is potentially worrying.

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6 minutes