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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Replying to @gregggonsalves @ATabarrok and
I was asking three years ago whether
@US_FDA's approval standards for new drugs are, in fact, too lax, not too stringent.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-versus-the-fda-part-2/ …1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @gregggonsalves and
Of course, the false narrative that the
@US_FDA is too strict, that people are dying because the FDA's requirements are too onerous and the process takes too long is propaganda, not fact. In actuality, FDA approves drugs on average faster than many advanced nations.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @gregggonsalves and
The narrative that the "FDA is killing people" is a propaganda ploy designed to rally support for measures to hobble and neuter the FDA. Fortunately, I was wrong when I predicted that Peter Thiel would pick Trump's FDA Commissioner.
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Replying to @gorskon @gregggonsalves and
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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Replying to @gorskon @gregggonsalves and
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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Replying to @gorskon @gregggonsalves and
Meanwhile free market Libertarians like Nick Gillespie and Ron Bailey over at
@reason were claiming that the FDA was killing far more people than it was saving through onerous regulatory requirements.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @gorskon @gregggonsalves and
Then there was the
#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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Unfortunately, ultimately #righttotry passed. It is of a piece of other free market fundamentalist efforts to weaken or neuter the FDA.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/right-to-try-is-now-law-let-patients-beware/ …
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