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I'll admit that on average the FDA has gotten better over the last few decades. They are genuinely better than when they caused 10,000 excess deaths a year for
by Symmetry 12y ago
I'll admit that on average the FDA has gotten better over the last few decades. They are genuinely better than when they caused 10,000 excess deaths a year for a decade due to their refusal to permit beta blockers during the period they were in use in other countries. But you can't say "Both Type 1 and Type 2 errors are occuring, so they must be balanced."
- refurb 12y agoI think the point stands that the FDA get almost no credit when it rejects drugs that could have harmed Americans and get fully blamed when any drug causes excess deaths in the US. That's the big problem. In addition, the public has little appetite for conversations that start with "We balance risk so only a handful of Americans die..." The public has zero tolerance for any mistakes the FDA makes, which I think is unfair, but that's the world the FDA lives in.