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No it’s under pressure from people who go to the press saying “the FDA won’t let me use this drug to help me/my family” who ignore “because there’s no evidence
by olliej 2y ago
No it’s under pressure from people who go to the press saying “the FDA won’t let me use this drug to help me/my family” who ignore “because there’s no evidence it works” as the reason.
The pharmaceutical just has to tell those people that it does work in their particular case and just ignore the studies that say it doesn’t, and the media and politicians uncritically report that as “the FDA is mean, let pharmaceutical companies sell new and expensive snake oil and re-victimise these people”, then in a few years later the same reporters and politicians berate the “ineffectual” FDA for allowing snake oil.
- dmix 2y agoRegulatory capture doesn’t mean the entire of idea of FDA as a safety mechanism is bad… nor does a legitimate reason for their existence mean that capture doesn’t exist It is good to hold federal agencies with large power to a very high standard. But that’s often not the case as any critiques get dismissed with the “well they have good intentions and can you imagine if they didn’t exist?” hand wave tactic.