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The thing no one will investigate is the obvious test data the pharma companies produced to show that phenylephrine supposedly worked. Any data that showed it worked was obviously fraud and yet companies made billions over 20 years from it. This is the real crime and I doubt this fraud started and ended with phenylephrine. How many other drugs are useless sold to us because no one bothered to doublecheck the data?

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Most serious nasal congestion sufferers would have been wary of phenylephrine for some years.

I feel uncomfortable asking for pseudoephedrine by name, but I do so anyway, because my doctor told me that phenylephrine was hopeless 15 years ago.

There was no trial to prove phenylephrine was effective, thus there was no fraud.

Phenylephrine has been available for over a century. It was an unapproved drug. The FDA grandfathered it in (as it did many drugs) by just making sure it wasn't harmful.

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