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> things like this make me feel glad that drug companies have a well regulated process to catch issues like this before they can become more widespread. This i
by patrickaljord 11y ago
> things like this make me feel glad that drug companies have a well regulated process to catch issues like this before they can become more widespread.
This is France we're talking about here, we are one of the most regulated country on the planet, this includes FDA like institutions. Still, this could happen anywhere. Also, as has been pointed elsewhere, too much regulation can make people die that could have benefited from the a cure, except we don't notice these death.
- epmatsw 11y agoRight, it seems like this is a tragic success of the process. Without a body like the FDA or France's equivalent enforcing rigorous trials, this would not be 6 people who opted in, this would be hundreds or thousands of sick people who were harmed. But yeah, striking the balance between progress and safety is tough. It's just sort of comforting to see a tragedy minimized by the controls we've put in place.