HOW DID THE CLOAK GET THERE?
Chatting with Sonia in this interview, she asked about the pharma ‘cloak of secrecy’ that keeps people in the dark about its inner workings.
The full story is here, THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, which discusses how it came about in some detail.
Boiling it down to the basics for the time-poor, a popular narrative emerged from the story of penicillin—that medicines are ‘discovered’ by accident—which has turned out to be a complete myth.
This came to light in 2017 in an article titled The Discovery of Penicillin – New Insights After More Than 75 Years of Clinical Use.
It presents a dramatic re-interpretation of the penicillin story. It explains in detail how Governments, pharmaceutical companies, physicians, regulators, universities and other key stakeholders worked together collaboratively to bring penicillin to market.
It didn’t jump from Alexander Fleming’s laboratory onto the pharmacy shelf! His discovery was vitally important of course…
