You know, it's a damn good thing I'm here with my batshit detector, or third-and-fourth-hand numbers like that would just be allowed to fall on the floor and lie there.

I'm assuming that the New England Journal of Medicine article is this one, which I would have to pay to read all of it.

If Eisenberg is in fact the original source of that number (and I haven't found anything proving he is), keep in mind he makes his living pushing "natural" medicine.

But none of that is essential to dealing with this claim. Just common sense, as usual, is enough.

The cost of Prozac is listed at anywhere from about $3 - $12 a dose. A 224,000 percent markup implies that you can, without incurring a loss, manufacture about 20,000 tablets for a penny.