TY - JOUR T1 - EXperience is a gloomy lantern that does not even illuminate its bearer AU - Braillon A Y1 - 2012/02/13 N1 - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.760 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 294 EP - 294 VL - 172 IS - 3 N2 - Steinman1 stressed that millions of people were early adopters of rofecoxib (Vioxx; Merck Co) and rosiglitazone (Avandia; GlaxoSmithKline), which were withdrawn or restricted for severe safety concerns. Accordingly, the findings of Schwartz and Woloshin2 are very surprising. They showed evidence that a substantial proportion of the public mistakenly believes that the Food and Drug Administration approves only extremely effective drugs and drugs lacking serious adverse effects.2 This deserves 2 questions. SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.760 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.760 ER -