One pill makes you larger
The other pill makes you small
And the ones that the doctor gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s 10 feet tall
“Here we go back down the rabbit hole,” Paula W. and her co-conspirators used to say on the NeuroTalk Parkinson’s Forum.
About Amgen in the GDNF debacle.
About Merck and the deliberate sinemet shortage.
About the system of triage that was obviously in place, but denied.
And the inexplicable 10 year delay in getting duodopa across the Atlantic, Abbvie and its predecessor repeatedly promising and not delivering; and explaining none of it.
The inexplicable refusal (industry-wide) to publish half of the medical studies – the studies that are negative are jettisoned –
About the inexplicable refusal to provide data even on the positive studies,
And at all times, the inexplicable silence of the lambs.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen is off her head
Back down the rabbit hole, into the mysterious Parkinson’s Nether World.
That’s where we stand today with Abbvie and duodopa. What happened in the past 10 years? What’s the narrative? What’s the frequency, Dave? The FDA got your tongue? And what comes next? Triage again? Better than nothing, but why are the patients the only ones kept in the dark about the multi-billion dollar industry that grew up around our disease?
Whether it be Amgen or Merck or Abbott or others, when we ask simple questions about the decisions being made, decisions that for us may mean life or death, the response is that it’s none of our business. It’s “proprietary information.”
It is no longer Parkinson’s, it is now Parkinson’s™.
It’s none of your business, you hear? Now take your pills, sit in the chair and stare at the wall. That’s all you need to know.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
FOLLOW ALICE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: (as per Walt Disney)
http://youtu.be/tOyasacx9vQ