The FDA protects the public, but only from new things, it does not protect new from a disease, but it does protect you from a potentially unproductive test or t

The FDA protects the public, but only from new things, it does not protect new from a disease, but it does protect you from a potentially unproductive test or treatment. One could say the FDA exists to ensure that all statistical errors are of type II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors