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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Meanwhile free market Libertarians like Nick Gillespie and Ron Bailey over at
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#righttotry movement, an astroturf effort to basically eliminate the FDA from the decision of whether to allow terminally ill patients to try drugs that had only passed phase I testing. Phase I!https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-final-push-to-pass-a-federal-version-of-the-cruel-sham-of-right-to-try-is-under-way/ … - Show replies
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