
269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations
Freakonomics Radio
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The Lidymide Effects
The fear of another thelidymide took us to exclude most women from early stage drug trials and also under represent women for a time in phase two and three trials. It's just heartbreaking to know that so many women had to wake up in the morning, and they still got up, but they went out and drove into the side of a male box because we didn't have sex as one of the variable sum that we would study.
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