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> I don't know how well-organized or efficient they are They're 50 employees with an annual budget of $14.4 million. The cost/benefit ratio here is very good.
by Hawxy 1y ago
> I don't know how well-organized or efficient they are
They're 50 employees with an annual budget of $14.4 million. The cost/benefit ratio here is very good.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y ago[flagged]
- redler 1y ago[flagged]
- SoftTalker 1y ago[flagged]
- Rebelgecko 1y agoWhy would they want to fund a group that calls them out for taking deadly shortcuts to save money?
- almosthere 1y agoThat's how the FDA works, so, should we just shut them down?
- jmcgough 1y agoThere are chemicals that are routinely used but aren't considered foods or drugs
- immibis 1y agoThey're literally shutting down the FDA as we speak so yes?
- ranger_danger 1y agoSource:
- Rebelgecko 1y agoIf it was up to drug companies, I'm guessing they would be supportive. If if by "we" you mean me personally, I think it's a bad idea.
- SoftTalker 1y agoHow does a massive chemical accident, or explosion that destroys a manufacturing facility, creating huge civil liability, "save money?" Or why they wouldn't want to learn from the mishaps of others to avoid massively costly accidents themselves. TFA says the chemical industry supports the mission and role of the CSB. It's trivially cheap in the scope of the whole industry, so they could just support it themselves. The CSB isn't a regulator. They don't write rules or impose fines. They investigate accidents, identify causes, and things that could have been done to prevent the accidents.
- hilbert42 1y agoFor that trivial amount this has to be anti-tech anti-science thinking at work. What's this administration trying do, return the US to the Third World or the Dark Ages? Madness.
- immibis 1y agoWell, yes, pretty much. It's an observed pattern among authoritarian states that actual facts are frequently in opposition to the authority, therefore, actual facts must be eliminated. It's a silver lining in disguise, really. Such countries tend to collapse relatively quickly because it turns out facts are important for running a country - look at the USSR's fake food supply. Relatively quickly could still be a decade, though.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoChina has been the exception that authoritarian states collapse quickly. It's what the western powers were banking on would happen after they had success with USSR. It didn't pan out the way they thought. Not even close.
- disgruntledphd2 1y agoChina is much more dispersed (because of it's size and some localisation/liberalisation) and they seem to understand at some level that reality exists and can't just be wished away. It's an open question if they'll retain that with Xi now President for life.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago> they seem to understand at some level that reality exists and can't just be wished away. US and EU seem to have forgotten that, at least when you look at the decisions of their leadership.
- ethbr1 1y agoAuthoritarianism works... as long as leaders are effective. The reason democracy historically wins out in the long run is not because it always picks better leaders, but because it picks fewer really bad ones. And checks/balances those it does. For all his faults as a leader, Xi has also come down hard on actual corruption and malfeasance. Imagine Trump in charge of China.