The aim of this project is to analyze users comments in order to detect possible pharmaceutical scandals. A famous pharmaceutical scandal is the Levothyrox drug scandal. The controversy over the drug Levothyrox, a drug administered for hypothyroidism patients, dates back to spring 2017, when a new formula of Levothyrox, produced by Merck, was introduced in France. Very quickly, thousands of patients began to report side-effects, and many even said that their original symptoms – even thyroid cancers – had returned.

In this project, user’s comments are scrapped from the doctissimo forum and analyzed to extract features and build Machine Learning models to automatically detect future similar scandals.