In article , hamei
wrote:

Strabo wrote:

My position is, and maybe TM and Gunner would agree,
government has no business 'regulating' drugs.

That is a libertarian stance.



Thalidomide

I am old enought to remember thalidomide when it happened.

More people have died, by far, as a result of the "thalidomide
reaction" than ever were injured by thalidomide itself.

Life is risky. Biology is complicated. Because a drug approved for use
in around 1960 turned out to have unforeseen side-effects, the whole
FDA turned ultra-ultra-conservative: "no new drug approved short of 5
years's worth of testing on rabbits, then 4 years' worth of testing on
primates, then possible, conditional, tenuous approval for humans."

The first drugs approved for humans after the thalidomide scare were
after I was in college. Tens of millions died in the 60s and 70s
because the FDA was afraid of making another thalidomide mistake.

Liquidating all those who worked at the FDA from 1960-2004 would be a
good start.


--Tim May