Hygeia by Armand Filion

Legal Addictions to Food and Tobacco. She would be an excellent candidate for a trial of a drug to "treat" the symptoms, like "cholesterol", of a self-destructive lifestyle. Such people are beloved of drug dealers and trialist doctors on their payrolls because they are "high risk" and have high "event" (i.e. heart attack and death) rates allowing investigators to publish papers faster and drug dealers to sell more drugs. Thus, all testing of drugs for lifestyle diseases necessitates severe conflict of interest. To insist that such people change their habits first would reduce "events" and prolong trials for years, so no drug trial has ever made a serious attempt to do so. All such trials were and are, therefore, UNETHICAL. Reports of the results of such trials should be retracted by the journals involved and the results should be ignored by all practicing doctors.