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You trust the FDA to tell you what is safe and what is not?

• DenisM 18y ago
  No, where did you get that from??? I hope that FDA keeps those drugs unavailable for next 40 years, and during that time hundreds of organization and individual doctors around the world will be able to test the long-term safety.
  • Shamiq 18y ago
    That's an interesting notion. What incentive does a drug company have into spending millions of dollars researching and developing a product to maybe reap benefits 40 years in the future? In a similar situation, I would move onto something more lucrative in a reasonable time frame. It's conceivable to imagine an industry completely stifled by having extremely high barriers to market entry. Additionally, imagine being forced to use research that is at least 40 years behind the curve (undoubtedly it'll be more), when the new is available. I understand you may have been exaggerating -- but this is still a good point to bring up.
    • DenisM 18y ago
      Well, not everything on earth should be done by the private businesses. This one can be financed by the public, knd of like the nuclear bomb and stuff. Legal mind-enhancing drugs are a great danger to society. They will put everyone in the position where they have to take those drugs, or risk perpetual unemployment. If side effects surface decades later they will cripple entire population of the country because no one will be able to abstain. The same level of danger is not present in any other drug - there is currently no pressure to take drugs on anyone but small group of competitive athletes.
      • jamesbritt 18y ago
        "Legal mind-enhancing drugs are a great danger to society. They will put everyone in the position where they have to take those drugs, or risk perpetual unemployment." Replace "drugs" with "education", and ask what should be done. Ban learning?
        • DenisM 18y ago
          By contrast to drugs, "education" has thousands of years to prove it's long-term medical safety. Different drugs have proven to have all kinds of nasty side-effects to a point where it is normal to hold them all suspect by default.
          • jaxn 18y ago
            Sometimes you have to take risks. There is some question as to whether cell phones have long term medical risks, but I bet you use a cell phone (for increased productivity no less).
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          • Retric 18y ago
            Flash cards don't have thousands of years of history behind them.
            • Shamiq 18y ago
              Those paper cuts were something awful...
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• jimbokun 18y ago
  Basically, yes. Realistically, I am not going to read every single study on every single substance and make my own judgments. The government doing it for everyone, with force of law behind them, is better for all of us than just letting anyone sell anything and make any claims about it they want and expecting all of us to do all of our own research about everything. Can the FDA make mistakes? Of course. Realistically, are they more likely to make a mistake than me, based on my own research and interpretation about things on which I am not an expert? No.