Better that then having the FDA be so strict that it blocks drugs that do work, or increases the costs of approval that experimental new drugs never make it to the design phase.
Imagine the upheaval such a dramatic finding would cause in any other line of business.Well, they are a bit generous to other lines of business. Management consulting is chock full of charlatans, and global warming is an obvious fraud if you consider the fact that geological and cosmological influences on climate and several orders of magnitude larger than anything you could do with SUVs. But still, isn't the FDA supposed to judge on the basis of safe AND effective? Who OK'ed this crap?