Scientific misconduct in the pharmaceutical industry

Abstract

In the area of pharmaceutical research, misconduct has become a well-known phenomenon that has many different determinants. Developing a drug costs pharmaceutical companies a lot of money. The investing industries and academic institutions seem to have a financial conflict of interest. For example, when researchers and the media eventually discovered that some patients who took Prozac experience serious side effects (even suicide) the drug was already popular and doctors continued to write prescriptions. This is an issue that should be taken seriously because this involves human lives.