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An Uninformative Truth: The Logic of Amarin’s Off-Label Promotion

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2016

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Hey, Spencer Phillips, and Aaron S. Kesselheim. 2016. “An Uninformative Truth: The Logic of Amarin’s Off-Label Promotion.” PLoS Medicine 13 (3): e1001978. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001978. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001978.

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Spencer Phillips Hey and Aaron Kesselheim propose that informativeness—asserting scientific facts—rather than truthfulness ought to be the standard for regulating commercial speech about pharmaceuticals.

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Medicine and Health Sciences, Pharmacology, Drugs, Statins, Health Care, Health Care Providers, Medical Doctors, Physicians, People and Places, Population Groupings, Professions, Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Lipids, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Reasoning, Psychology, Social Sciences, Fatty Acids, Drug Research and Development, Drug Marketing, Sociology, Marketing, Drug Regulation

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