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You mean like when Europe approved thalidomide but the US said “just because they approved it isn’t good enough” and saved tens of thousands of babies from birt
by refurb 4y ago
You mean like when Europe approved thalidomide but the US said “just because they approved it isn’t good enough” and saved tens of thousands of babies from birth defects?
- BurningFrog 4y agoThe fact that the only example you have is 60 years old makes this a terrible argument.
- refurb 4y ago10 years ago better? It was on the market between 1976 and 2009, and is thought to have caused between 500 and 2,000 deaths. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfluorex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfluorex
- BurningFrog 4y agoSure, that's more serious. It's true that the "European FDA" sometimes approves things they have to recall later. But the American FDA also does that. Only rejecting by all medications can you avoid that. My thought is that medical science works the same way in Europe as in the US, so if it was a scientific matter, approvals would be "portable". I think a model that explains things better is that the approvals are political/regulatory. And I wish the were scientific.