Cousin Axel wants in on this opposite day thing. I'm against, but Axel is insistent.
Cousin Alex says the FDA is paternalistic. Yah, it is paternalistic. Paternalism is good.
You know what would happen without vater FDA? Herr Trudeau sells 1.5 million copies of Natural Cures "They" Don’t Want You to Know About, that’s what happens. When left to their own thinking die volk swarms to an ex-con who has been banned from the airwaves by the FTC for marketing "Japanese" marine coral with claims that it can cure cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, lupus, and other illness. If it were up to me this guy would be jailed. But the FTC can’t stop him from selling his book. Silly first amendment. Don’t you Americans know the truth is more important than free speech?
Libertarians say how can you trust people to make decisions about toothpaste but not about their own health? Zat is an easy one. No one buys toothpaste out of fear. But sick people don’t think rationally they are emotional they hold out hope, even the kind of hope that "they" don’t want them to know about. Father FDA must protect them.
Libertarians will respond that the tort law protects consumers from fraud. Need I tell you who has the best book on the problems with tort law?
But we have the FDA, at our own expense. And we still have Trudeau and millions like him. So the FDA is effective in saving people from their own stupidity how again?
Robert: The example of Trudeau’s book was meant, I believe, to make the point that we need more paternalism — not just in foods and drugs, but in media and perhaps elsewhere.
I’m afraid you fail at opposite day. You deliberately created a satire instead of trying to argue your opponents’ position seriously.
The FDA is by all accounts the most murderous organisation in North America. From the sixties to the nineties, the research delays has more than doubled, from 2.5 to 6 years (Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University, May 1995)
Propanolol, invented during the sixties, was delayed by the FDA during three years. The result was between 10 000 and 20 000 lives that could not be saved (Henry G. Grabowski, John M. Vernon, The Regulation of Pharmaceuticals: Balancing the Benefits and Risks – Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1983). For Misoprostol, the delay was only 9 months, but the death toll is between 8 000 and 15 000 (Sam Kazman, “Deadly Overcaution: FDA’s Drug Approval Process,” Journal of Regulation and Social Costs, Août 1990). And the examples go on and on.
An estimation of the annual deaths is difficult. Lower estimates put this at around 5 000 victimes per year (Doug Bandow, author of “Reforming Medicine Through Competition and Innovation”).
Read what I posted. Go read the studies. Inform yourself.
Tobacco kills a shitload of people, yea, but people aren’t forcing others to buy cigarettes. You have a much better case with the US military though.
If you wished to obtain guardianship so that you could make all of my medical decisions, you would have to prove in a court of law that I was not competent to make my own choices. How would you go about proving, as Axel has asserted, that I am not a rational consumer? Is there a standard for doing so?
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