Posts Tagged ‘five easy lies’

When all else fails, use logarithms

Posted on January 10th, 2010 by by Chris Lawson

I wrote about this as one of the Five Easy Lies. And now, courtesy of the blog Pharma Analysis, I can show a real-life example. Imagine a drug company marketing an opiate on the basis that it has a long half-life. This is a major selling point because most existing opiates lose effect after 3-6 hours, [...]