Last note to @ATabarrok & @ezraklein. We got lucky w/ vaccines. Many other decisions @US_FDA are made at margins & the push from libertarian right to further weaken the approval process serves no one. We know less & less about what we put in our bodies, pay more & more for it. 1/
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Even so, people under consideration included Jim O'Neill, one of the panelists on that "reform panel," who advocated going back to a pre-Kefauver standard of only requiring that drugs be shown to be safe, not effective, claiming the "free market" would determine efficacy.
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Then there was another guy who really argued that there should be an "Uber" or Yelp! for drugs in order to determine efficacy.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-vs-the-fda-be-afraid-be-very-afraid-of-the-loosening-of-drug-approval-standards/ …
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