I'm sure it's been posted to HN before but Scott Alexander's writing on the FDA is pretty nuanced. "Beyond "Abolish The FDA"[0] is pro-FDA but contains the sect

I'm sure it's been posted to HN before but Scott Alexander's writing on the FDA is pretty nuanced. "Beyond "Abolish The FDA"[0] is pro-FDA but contains the section "What policy proposal closest to abolish-the-FDA would I feel comfortable supporting in the real world?" He's been pretty explicit on Lumina too: "My real opinion, as precisely as I can express it, is: * Advance of approximately the same magnitude as fluoride: 5% * Good on balance, comparable to other beneficial dental treatments: 35% * Doesn’t work in its current form, but could easily be modified into something that does: 10% * Doesn’t work at all and never will: 50% * Causes minor side effects for some people, same scale as Tylenol: 30% * Causes medium side effects, same scale as tricyclics: 5% * Causes disastrous side effects, same scale as thalidomide: <1%" [0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/beyond-abolish-the-fda https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/beyond-abolish-the-fda [1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/updates-on-lumina-probiotic https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/updates-on-lumina-probiotic