Perhaps if you were in need of an experimental drug to have a chance to live, you would understand the need for a more patient-centered and not government-centered approach at the FDA.
Prasad, being a medical scientist and not a particular drug advocate or drug opponent, thinks the right to try laws do not have sufficient guard rails against medical scams that deliver “hope” and hype more than results. He opposed the Covid vaccine mandates on a similar basis. And, at the end of the day, philosophically, how far away from each other are “right to try” laws and “right to commit suicide” laws. Are not both really forms of request asking the government to step aside and let patients decide medical situations that are otherwise normally regulated?
On the other hand, I think the FDA power altogether should be reduced to legally no greater power than that offered by “Consumer Reports” - an expert recommendation, that anyone, any doctor, any insurance company can accept or reject.
That is regardless of what some think is Prasad’s motives; because when you look at his opposition to the Covid vaccines and what he thinks about some experimental drugs, “big government” is not his motive, and his experience driven scientific medical skepticism is front and center in both situations.