Anything involving risk and trade-offs is tough to evaluate. The FDA might be too slow to approve approve new sunscreens, but they also dragged their feet on a

Anything involving risk and trade-offs is tough to evaluate. The FDA might be too slow to approve approve new sunscreens, but they also dragged their feet on approving thalidomide, a decision that turned out to be absolutely correct in hindsight. The FDA's overall reputation seems pretty good. Daniel Carpenter's book calls it "the most powerful regulatory agency in the world." This article talks about its (very positive) reputation as well: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.23.1.52 https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.23.1....