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Today must be an even-numbered day at the NYTimes. On odd-numbered days we scold the FDA for demanding too much data and investigation, and so taking too long
by arkades 7y ago
Today must be an even-numbered day at the NYTimes.
On odd-numbered days we scold the FDA for demanding too much data and investigation, and so taking too long to let products onto the market.
- ErikVandeWater 7y agoIt can be both - The FDA is inefficient when it does test a product causing the costs to increase, and also doesn't screen every product as well as it should.
- BurningFrog 7y agoIt's also has separate legal frameworks for drugs and medical devices.
- timtim51251 7y agoFDA doesn't test, drug companies do and then provide data. That's why they can cheat and lie as much as they do.
- unknownkadath 7y agoIt should not be surprising that different writers have different priorities and opinions. Would it not be more suspicious if the paper's content were monotone and homogeneous?
- jessedhillon 7y agoYes, but today is an odd-numbered day at HN, so we scold the media for indecisiveness. Otherwise, it's for their consistent bias.
- creato 7y agoIt should not be surprising that different commenters have different priorities and opinions. Would it not be more suspicious if Hacker News' content were monotone and homogeneous?
- Judgmentality 7y agoYes, but today is an odd-numbered day at HN, so we become meta like reddit. Otherwise we scold them for their memes.
- Symmetry 7y agoWe really need numerical estimates, even bad ones, of the number of lives saved versus cost for different levels of regulation in order to talk sensibly about all of this.
- smt88 7y agoThe CDC does an enormous amount of this already. They research problems, then research possible effects of regulation, and then they advocate for that regulation. They then measure the effects. One example is smokefree regulations[1] limiting people's exposure to tobacco. There are many nonprofits and other governmental organizations that are also researching these things heavily and providing estimates. Just because you haven't seen the numbers doesn't mean no one is crunching and publishing them. 1. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand_smoke/protection/improve_health/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco...
- ikeboy 7y agoHere you go http://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-examples-of-fda-harm/ http://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-examples...
- mehrdadn 7y agoThese all seem to be pre-2000?
- macspoofing 7y agoThank you! There is a cost to process and bureaucracy. It is a balance between innovation and protecting the public. Like security and marketing, there is no end to how much regulation you can have because you can always regulate more. You can add more rules, more laws, more regulators, more auditors, etc. etc. etc.