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Comment by terminalshort

17 days ago

In that case I want to see more wild west because this is working fine for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal

  • That specific medicine is about a molecule that was insufficiently vetted.

    It does not seem as egregious as the risk of getting medication made in other countries. As far as I know, all the patented medicine comes from barely audited factories in places like India anyway.

    • Yes, it was insufficiently vetted. And the FDA blocked it because of that. Yet we have people wanting to repeat the same mistakes.

      Like FAA rules, FDA rules are written in someone’s blood. Someone died for those rules so we don’t have to experience the same consequences.

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Me too. This particular Wild West scenario clearly benefits the public

  • Yes yes, it's super beneficial to destroy the incentive for anyone to risk billions of dollars and decades of research to develop new breakthrough medications for people

    • they could lower the price, destroy these compounders via competition, and still be some of the most profitable companies on the planet.

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