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The difference is that preventing new planes from entering the market doesn't kill people.

• hhas01 6y ago
  But allowing unsafe planes onto the market will. Because this is not just about those people who are sick right now. It’s about the many, many more who will be sick in future: useless or harmful treatments released to market will negatively impact all of them too. So let’s not lose perspective here. The FDA does not kill people. Diseases kill people. It’s the FDA’s role to reduce that toll over time. For there is no problem that cannot be made still worse through addition of greed and histrionics. As per usual, follow the money to see who’s championing lowered standards. Short-termism works fantastically for quarterly bonuses, not so much for delivering decades-long improvements in the healthcare that will affect your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren too. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/federal-right-to-try-over-a-year-later-still-a-failure-and-still-about-the-money-and-weakening-the-fda/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/federal-right-to-try-over-a... -- Oh, and it really shouldn’t need repeating that the FDA already provides early access to still experimental treatments, but I guess it does: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/expanded-access https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/expanded... You might want to consider why those calling for the FDA’s neutering commonly fail to point that little factoid out. Since, you know, they’re wanting to help the patients n’all. -- https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=medicine+wagon https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=medicine+wagon https://www.google.com/search?q=frances+kelsey https://www.google.com/search?q=frances+kelsey