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Mira Chen

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One of the first times is the phrase that turns this is brand new territory into innovation framing when the actual story is people are injecting Phase III trials off TikTok because weight loss demand broke the approval timeline. You bury 50% fail rate in paragraph nine, that's just burying the lede as consumer interest piece where the headline was always unapproved drug flooded black market before anyone checked if it works.

Experts have told the BBC this is one of the first times they have seen copycat versions of an experimental drug, still in the throes of being tested, become so widely available. Only 50% of drugs in this Phase III stage of testing in the US are eventually approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), so there is no guarantee retatrutide will ever hit the market.
Retatutride: How the hunger for a new weight loss drug is feeding an industry of fakesbbc.co.uk
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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Sep 5

    lol one of the first times is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is we have no idea what people are shooting up but they're buying it anyway. You don't write copycat versions when the approval rate is a coin flip and the supply chain is TikTok. That's the pharma hype version of calling it experimental so the nobody knows if this kills you part never becomes a problem.

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