Henry St.Pierre wrote:

I was with you until the "designer drugs" and paying off the FDA. You and
George don't differ by a whole lot; just in scope.

Not so. The point was clear. Statistics are the last resort of weak
science. The point is that the drug industry, and indeed virtually all
of bio-merdical research, has become suspect and is rife with outright
fraud. Inconclusive and negative results are hidden and data points
are shaved to exclude "outliers" in order to get the desired result.
All this is statistical manipulation to produce a result rather than
elucidate the truth. Take a look at the book "How to Lie With
Statistics" by Darrell Huff to get a good overview of how numbers and
statistics are used in real life examples to obscure the truth or to
support outright lies. Follow the scientific literature for a while
and you will see author after author being caught in fraud. I've been
doing that for over 30 years in my career and having trained long and
hard as a scientist I find it extremely disgusting.