Putting the nail in the FDA's coffin

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The FDA people who decide about various things, including drugs, are not simple MBAs. They are qualified scientists. But you knew that.


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"Scientists" who look at somebody else's research.


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So if government doesn't license pilots, airlines will just let anyone who wants to fly their planes in order to figure out who can do it and who can't? That doesn't even pass the giggle test.


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Giggle all you want. I have already explained to you, in another thread, that the issue is not the out-and-out unqualified pilots (although, theoretically anyone could fly once, in your anarchist vision of the world!) -- but the uncertain levels of expertise; the persons who are not surely qualified nor surely unqualified. A robust process of qualification meeting industry-mandated and/or government-mandated standards is, in fact, the efficient and right play.


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You're not saying anything new. So there is a demand for some sort of way to qualify pilots, but only the government can provide it? You even use the word "industry-mandated" but still maintain this can't be done without government?


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Every building I go into has different, unstandardized signs for the restrooms. Somehow, though, I manage to find the men's room without confusion.


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You're saying it would be the same thing with automobile roads, every mile of which would be owned by a different owner?


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Why would every mile be owned by someone else?

What incentive do road owners have to make their signs confusing? If people can't figure out what the rules are, accidents go up, and accidents are bad for business.


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I told you I see such a set-up as a Three Stooges sketch. Sorry for giggling.


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Obviously, if it's not the way you want it, it's retarded.


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So if the government doesn't test drugs, you'll have no choice but to blindly believe whatever the producer of the drug tells you? Even though that's what you're doing now, since the FDA bases their decisions on data supplied by the manufacturer.


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I provided a link to the FDA website which presents in some detail what the agency is actually doing. Obviously, you have understood little of it, and even less abt my position on the matter. Plus ca change...


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Exactly. It's always the same. You still can't articulate a coherent argument. You explicitly said that your inability to throughouly research drugs yourself is one of your reasons for supporting the FDA's authority over drugs, but then when someone says that's your position, you wonder why nobody "understands" your brilliant positions. And then you throw in a foreign phrase to give yourself that je ne sais quois.