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I'm not familiar with FDA that much (I live in EU) and I believe it isn't anywhere near perfect, but you want to be conservative when it comes to public health.
by JackuB 11y ago
I'm not familiar with FDA that much (I live in EU) and I believe it isn't anywhere near perfect, but you want to be conservative when it comes to public health. Look at case of Thalidomide from 50s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
In the United States, pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey M.D.
withstood pressure from the Richardson-Merrell company
and refused Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval
to market thalidomide, saying further studies were needed.
- vdaniuk 11y agoAny example is pointless without considering opportunity costs. How many people were saved due to faster availability of drugs?
- kbenson 11y agoThen again, how many people would be lost if public confidence in drugs as being safe was lost? We can't get a sizable portion of people to even vaccinate their children anymore, and that was all sourced from a single fraudulent paper, which the author lost his license over[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield