Actually, it ain’t so much the FDA. The drug companies, and every other industry, are under threat from the lawyers and black-robed tyrants, both of which are licking their butts for the next billion dollar lawsuit. You have no idea the threats that drug companies face, it’s far worse than most people realize. The FDA has actually done a pretty fair job. If we had listened to Europe when they came out with thalidomide, the US would have 10s of thousands of seriously deformed children. Look up thalidomide babies. The FDA would not approve this drug without testing on primates.
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Actually, it ain’t so much the FDA. The drug companies, and every other industry, are under threat from the lawyers and black-robed tyrants, both of which are licking their butts for the next billion dollar lawsuit. You have no idea the threats that drug companies face, it’s far worse than most people realize. The FDA has actually done a pretty fair job. If we had listened to Europe when they came out with thalidomide, the US would have 10s of thousands of seriously deformed children. Look up thalidomide babies. The FDA would not approve this drug without testing on primates.
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Oh, I’ve contracted w/ a drug-producing co. in the past; I’ve seen their process(es)\paperwork.
It’s that, and the lawyers, plus public ignorance that keep R&D\drug $$ in the stratosphere.
As for thalidomide, like the CIA/FBI, I don’t call it a SUCCESS for the *one* it gets right...just luck. What stops ‘em from ‘approving’ the vice-versa (used across the world for 40yrs+)? MORE ‘human testing’?? Sorry, no, govt being govt should ALWAYS be minimal and watched like a hawk.
IMO, *ALL* drugs should available. Those that show promise become options based on usage and those willing to try ‘alternatives’ weed out the bad\ineffective.
Rx want to take the ‘slow route’ have that option.
I mean, we’re talking SYNTHETIC here (don’t believe Nature has a cure for EVERYTHING), and not ALL Rx are 100% effective\safe. Let the People decide just how much they are willing to do for a solution to what ails ‘em.
IF the FDA should even exist, constitutionally so, it should be in a ‘referral mode’ only...”This is what we SUGGEST (warning or for good)...”. Govt does not OWN our bodies.