Links to the papers we discuss

  • Diagnosing the Decline of Pharmaceutical R&D efficiency (2012): https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3681
  • When Quality Beats Quantity: Decision Theory, Drug Discovery, and the Reproducibility Crisis (2016): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147215
  • Pharmaceutical Evolution: Clinical Selection versus Intelligent Design: https://www.innogen.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-08/Innogen-Working-Paper-115.pdf

Jack can be contacted at jack.scannell@btinternet.com

Then the books Jack refers to:

  • Robert Gordon: The Rise and Fall of American Growth
  • James Le Fanu: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
  • Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe