"Would you prefer that we go back to the good old days of
thalidomide?"...this is a bizarre comment. No one here is proposing
that drug regulation be eliminated; merely that it be accomplished
with a better balance of risks and benefits.
Regarding the FDA: No one questions that the people in the FDA are
mostly decent, competent, hardworking scientists. But their
incentives are probably a bit skewed. The career impact of an error
on the "approve" side is probably much greater than the impact of
an error on the "disapprove" side.
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