He differs from Mr Smolin in seeing more merit in theories that are beautiful, whereas Mr Smolin puts more emphasis on experimental tests.

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To help handle all the new drugs that will be entering experimental tests on humans, Pfizer also recruited Briggs Morrison, who oversaw the oncology pipeline at Merck and was involved in a systematic review of Merck's clinical trials.

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To help handle all the new drugs that will be entering experimental tests on humans, Pfizer also recruited Briggs Morrison, who oversaw the oncology pipeline at Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and was involved in a systematic review of Merck's clinical trials.

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And by using people rather than experimental animals for the tests, the researchers can be confident that the results are applicable to humans.

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It failed to perform key tests on experimental animals, or on small groups of people in clinical trials, before launching the pills on an unsuspecting public.

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Experimental medicines are always thoroughly tested in animals before human tests begin, yet nine of 10 drugs that start human trials prove unsafe or ineffective.

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Beyond the usual tests, CHLI charts all sorts of extra parameters including three measures of arterial inflammation and an experimental test that looks in my urine for DNA damage.

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