Talk:Ritonavir

Hit-and-run Edit
The quality of the text removed was not highly encyclopedic. "Delete now and ask questions never" could be attributed to style.

Change in question.

Text removed:


 * Research that led to the drug's development was financed by a $3,500,000 federal grant through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over $200,000,000 by Abbott Labs. Most of the $200,000,000 figure cited by Abbott paid for clinical trials—despite NIH offering to pay for them—because Abbott was concerned about "public interest" responses to the high prices they projected Norvir would command.

But to do the edit (deletion):


 * On text which portrays a drug company in a negative light.
 * Without discussion or debate.
 * From an account identified only by an IP address.
 * Where said IP address has only performed one "contribution": edit by 70.211.9.4 to date
 * Using a revision comment that suggests some level of sophistication: removed statment [sic] supported only by reference to an advocacy group blog WP:QUESTIONABLE

Seems very suspicious to me that there are ulterior motives , what do other people think? Thanks 96.26.79.253 (talk) 12:14, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Abbott interview about polymorphs
There is a striking set of four interviews/presentations, whose transcripts are available here: Parts of it were quoted in https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201410356 including:
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19991003043516/http://iapac.org/norvir/abt_sun.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20020626132036/http://www.iapac.org/norvir/abt_byrn.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20020626132855/http://www.iapac.org/norvir/abt_lichter.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20020626133033/http://www.iapac.org/norvir/abt_dintruff.html
 * A company’s size and the collective IQs of their scientists have no relationship to this problem.

But that paper didn't have a current source for the transcript, so I wanted to mention it here in case others are looking for it. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:54, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Sold{where}
Ritonavir (RTV), sold[where?] under the brand name Norvir, is an antiretroviral medication used along with other medications to treat HIV/AIDS.

I added the flag. The reader shouldn't have to finish the lead to puzzle out that it quite likely implies "sold globally", which I certainly can't add myself to resolve the flag, because I know nothing about this topic whatsoever. &mdash; MaxEnt 17:02, 5 November 2021 (UTC)