Ridiculous libertarian "thinking" at @reason: "Americans now are told that "the poor get poorer," but it's not true. Americans are 30 times richer than we were 200 years ago. When America began, rich people were poorer than poor people are today."https://reason.com/2021/04/28/society-is-richer-and-more-accepting-thanks-to-libertarian-ideas/ …
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Others go further and make the bonkers claim that the FDA is "killing more people than it saves" through too slow and bureaucratic drug approval. Besides the unfounded assumption that faster drug approval will save more lives, the FDA is actually faster than, for example, the EU.
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There might have been some merit to such an argument 35 years ago, during the early part of the AIDS epidemic, but now? Not so much. If anything, drug approval standards have gone too far in the other direction and are too lax.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-versus-the-fda-part-2/ …
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These would be the same libertarians that think that we do not need the FAA because if airliners crash then the public will determine which airlines to fly on in future.
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Yes, they would, and the same ones who claim that private certification agencies would pop up to replace the government ones.
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Crowdsourced drug info just what I’ve always wanted, well it was for my recreational drugs nut so much the ones I actually want to save my life.
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