I think the advantage of a clinical trial is being about to actually see the product of years and years worth of research. To get to a clinical trial means that there was a lot of data that got it there and this is the climax. This is where we actually get to see if that research paid off and if we are actually going to get to help people. The disadvantage to me is that clinical trials can be influenced by companies. I know that there are regulations in place to make sure this doesn’t happen but if you do a clinical trial at a pharmaceutical company, I believe it could be influenced. What I’m taking about is providing drugs and making more available just to make more available. The drug might not be better than treatment that already exists but the goal of the trial is to just give a product that has therapeutic effects and is safe. Just because a drug is safe doesn’t mean it doesn’t have side effects. Most drugs have side effects because it’s nearly impossible to target just one pathway because everything in the body is dependent on another aspect of the body. Those side effects might mean that a different treatment approach might be better (not drugs) but it doesn’t matter. The goal is just to output the drug that is safe and therapeutic. We are just going to ignore that it might not be the best treatment and has more side effects and the pharmaceutical company is profiting off of this.