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I just had an aha moment reading your post. Food safety, drug safety, airline safety, all these regulations were implemented because manufacturers were operatin
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
I just had an aha moment reading your post. Food safety, drug safety, airline safety, all these regulations were implemented because manufacturers were operating with standards so lax that people suffered actual harm.
Perhaps that's the real reason behind the anti-FDA lobbying we are seeing here. The FDA demonstrates that government-mandated safety standards work. We can't have those in the IT field because they would diminish profits!
- morlockabove 6y agoThe FDA also has massive associated costs and acts as a hurdle to innovation- which is partially by design (lobbyists like regulatory capture).
- HarryHirsch 6y agoThe Moderna and Biontech RNA vaccines got past the FDA in record time and are a massive innovation. What are you even talking about? Also: Hepatitis C antivirals. One pill and you are cured, whereas in the past you'd be looking at a liver transplant. If that's not innovation it's impossible to say what that would be.