As a psychologist, it strikes me th...

As a psychologist, it strikes me that the COX-2 televised medicine company-FDA public meeting was satiated of relevant psychological implications that probably weren't recognized. It's been too easy to cast a certain number of researchers as "bad guys" and a certain number of as "good guys," as if that label addresses or analyzes any of the COX-2 enigmas The real problem is that highly educated and well-intentioned researchers are trying to make decisions subject to conditions of uncertainty--a psychologically difficult task. Perhaps what we've seen in the televised meeting was proper to:

1 to what degree ...