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https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-examples-of-fda-harm/ https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-example... It turns out we can
by ikeboy 7y ago
https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-examples-of-fda-harm/ https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-example...
It turns out we can directly compare pre-1962 FDA with the current FDA and find strong harms outweighing any benefit of the current regime.
If all the FDA did was "enforce accurate labelling", they wouldn't be responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from delayed approval of drugs. Maybe that's not the part people are complaining about.
- dTal 7y agoThat might be a valid point if the parent comment had been similarly nuanced. But it said "no government supervision", not "roll back to 1962". I find this kind of motte-and-bailey stuff ubiquitous in discussions with libertarians, as the "philosophy" amounts to anarchy which most people realize is bad.
- ikeboy 7y agoNote that I'm not the one who posted the parent comment. Anyway, the Milton Friedman talk linked explicitly mentions the same beta-blockers example as my link discusses and cites it as causing tens of thousands of deaths. He says it's been a disaster over "the last 20 years" - the talk was in 1978, so this is roughly the 1962-1978 period. And the "governmental supervision for health care" mentioned is broader than the FDA.