No matter one's judicial philosophy, it is inconceivable that the framers of the U.S. Constitution intended unelected, tenured career bureaucrats to hold absolute power over American lives without prospect of challenge in the courts. The framers understood that the pursuit of life is an inalienable right that should not be abridged without due process of law.
IMHO, the entire editorial on FDA abuse is worth a read.
With the new off-label use of Enbrel for reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, there should be massive pressure to allow infomed consent for experimental drugs.
Clinical trials are still the best way to go for final conclusions on new drugs, but desparate patients should be allowed to make decisions on their own behalf about risks they are willing to take.
Every experiment must have a control group.
I despise Government agencies as much as anyone on here, but Science has rules, and when things are approved without proper study, then the FDA gets crucified for that, too, and then there are Thalidomide headlines and Oxycontin lawsuits.
When rules of research are flouted, we end up with absurdities like Global Warming. No one wants something like that influencing their healthcare.
It sounds Marxist but this is a situation where the FDA must select the greater good for the greater number, and they are in a bad spot.
Yes, they do suck, but I have some sympathy for them.
This sounds like a trial-lawyer bonanza waiting to happen.
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