FDA Regulation Debate

The cluster focuses on debates about the FDA's role in drug approvals, regulations, and effectiveness, including criticisms of delays in beneficial treatments, historical examples like thalidomide and Vioxx, and defenses of its safety protections.

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_3u10 May 15, 2022 View on HN

This stuff happens even with the FDA.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxibhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma

chroma May 1, 2024 View on HN

The regulations are different. The FDA only gets in trouble if they approve a drug that turns out to be harmful, not if they fail to approve (or delay approving) a beneficial drug. On net, the FDA has caused far more harm than they’ve prevented. eg: Banning the importation of infant formula from the EU, or delaying the approval of new beta blockers by a decade.

darknavi Nov 28, 2023 View on HN

Your phrasing implies some nefarious intent behind the FDA. What about the FDA do you not like?

diN0bot Mar 13, 2010 View on HN

i'm curious about your qualms with the FDA and what you'd like to replace it with.

irthomasthomas Aug 7, 2021 View on HN

I think the FDA are in this thread ;)

llamaimperative Sep 23, 2024 View on HN

Why would the FDA have a role in this?

ok_dad Dec 28, 2021 View on HN

Read the history of the FDA, my friend. They’re here for a reason. I’m not going to educate you on something you can Google (but probably won’t).

pessimizer Nov 28, 2022 View on HN

Citing a likely dangerous thing that the FDA doesn't have any objections to is not a good counter.

forgotmypwd123 Dec 31, 2019 View on HN

Sorry, but the FDA isn't really trustworthy to the rest of the world anymore...

Teever Jul 26, 2022 View on HN

Any idea what the reasoning behind these FDA rules is?