A particularly good Slate Star Codex piece on the societal cost of everything being default illegal for 10 years and $X0 million to a billion in medicine:
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Appears this piece may have been victim of one of the internet's systemic problems.
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Seems that @slatestarcodex story about an old FDA incident was very inaccurate jabberwocking.com/a-3-part-story
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As I understand it, the inaccuracies were in a previous piece about the FDA in general, and "Details Of The Infant Fish Oil Story" is a correction with a detailed (and hopefully correct) story that is based on the same sources as the jobberwocking.com one.
But Kevin Drum's blog post is also critical of Scott's followup. Probably worth reading Drum's post rather than assuming SA's followup corrects all the issues.
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Apologies, I didn't notice that this was the retraction and not the story.
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No worries, it's hard to keep track of everything! Just trying to do my part to get us all less confused. 🙂