Just a different perspective: maybe give other doctors more of the benefit of the doubt? I have a family friend who&#x27;s I guess what you&#x27;d call &quot;on the bell curve&quot; and he described to me the process. Basically he says that the representatives are paying for the doctor&#x27;s time&#x2F;attention with fancy dinners and whatnot. Doctors are busy people and can&#x27;t read about every drug and study that&#x27;s being released. He, just like you, takes in the information skeptically and ask for what studies have been performed etc. etc. Like you say, the representatives aren&#x27;t scientists so often they won&#x27;t know the answer and they will take notes and have their company send the doctor a custom made document answering everything he wanted to know (as you know, the marketing budgets are insane).<p>It&#x27;s sorta similar to the function congressional lobbying is supposed to fulfill. Ie. It&#x27;d be ideal if the congressmen&#x2F;doctors did all the research themselves but that&#x27;s not possible so you basically have a whole research team at your disposal (who&#x27;s agenda is very obvious...)