To put this simply, this guy should spend the rest of his life in jail. For those of you asking who Scott Reuben is, he is the man behind the “research” that indicated COX-2 pain inhibitors are superior for recovery and pain relief to steroidal anti-inflammatories. COX-2 pain killers are significantly riskier than the steroidal variety, but his research indicated that there was significant enough benefit to offset the risk. As it turns out much of his research was a sham. Many purported benefits of these drugs either do not exist, or worse, are actually disadvantages.
If none of this makes sense than this sums it up, Vioxx is a COX-2 inhibitor, and the risk with vioxx was death by heart attack. Ie. based on Mr. Reuben’s findings people took drugs that KILLED them. It stuns me that this does not have more press coverage. Now if this is not bad enough, and in my opinion it is almost tantamount to murder, Mr Reubens studies have set the scientific community back in looking for actual treatments for people with chronic pain. I’d be interested to hear what anyone who has arthritis has to say about the man. This fraud is despicable and I sincerely hope that he is punished accordingly.