“Risky Drugs: Why The FDA Cannot Be Trusted”
“...This evidence indicates why we can no longer trust the FDA to carry out its historic mission to protect the public from harmful and ineffective drugs. Strong public demand that government “do something” about periodic drug disasters has played a central role in developing the FDA.2 Yet close, constant contact by companies with FDA staff and officials has contributed to vague, minimal criteria of what “safe” and “effective” mean. The FDA routinely approves scores of new minor variations each year, with minimal evidence about risks of harm. Then very effective mass marketing takes over, and the FDA devotes only a small percent of its budget to protect physicians or patients from receiving biased or untruthful information.34 The further corruption of medical knowledge through company-funded teams that craft the published literature to overstate benefits and understate harms, unmonitored by the FDA, leaves good physicians with corrupted knowledge.5 6 Patients are the innocent victims...”
https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/risky-drugs-why-fda-cannot-be-trusted
“Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2282014
“Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs”
And per your next comment never any long-term studies examining what nutrients sick or marginally healthy people might be deficient in, and then providing appropriate supplements to see how quickly and cheaply they might become well again. My theory is that if such measures were followed regularly we could have medicare for all at the current price. When Dr. Zelenko came up with his successful treatment for early Covid early last Feb. and March, the medicine cost was only $20 a treatment for the zinc sulfate, HCQ, and Azithromycin and almost NO hospitalization costs. By the time Fauci or Mark Meadows, or whoever stopped mentioning the critical virus stopper zinc in their big talk about HCQ, and Fauci had promoted a trial for hospitalized patients using ONLY HCQ and Zinc, it turned out he was promoting Remdesivir which was only going to cost insurance companies about $3,000 per course of treatment. It was not very successful, but I imagine we the taxpayers paid for it. In addition Fauci last spring answered that he did not think VItamin C and D would be useful. Finally in November he said they MIGHT be useful. By this time there was a study showing that 80% of black men in Covid critical care were deficient in Vitamin D. Other studies have shown that Vitamin D is a factor in the cases of blood clotting disorders resulting from Covid.