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FDA vs Free Speech: the results | 134 comments | Create New Account
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There's also a writeup on this at Respectful Insolence
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 10:45 PM EST
See here.

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Appeals court puts 1st Amendment over public health
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 11:02 PM EST
Good. This kind of freedom from bureaucratic control of our own health is going
to be important in the future, given the way our health care system is being
Federalized.

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FDA vs Free Speech: the results
Authored by: coats on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 07:38 AM EST
I call BS

For suppressing free speech of facts about the use of aspirin in reducing and ameliorating heart attacks, the FDS is more murderous than the Vietnam war. For likewise suppressing facts about the infectious nature of most ulcers, and the use of antibioics to treat them, the FDA is responsible for more torture than the Spanish Inquisition.

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How to suppress advances in medicine ...
Authored by: Wol on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 08:20 AM EST
As I understand it, the primary purpose of the regulatory regime is to ensure
safety, and even then they mess up! They approve drugs that are unsafe, and yet
they'll ban a drug that is noticeably beneficial for dying patients because it
has some MINOR side effect.

We have NICE to check whether drugs actually work (which is a good thing), but
the problem is if it doesn't approve a drug, doctors can't get funding for it,
so it hinders finding new uses for old drugs :-(

At the end of the day, it's all down to the "we must do something"
syndrome, so anything that actually works gets regulated out of existence :-(

Cheers,
Wol

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.PDF - Decision: United States v. Caronia
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 11:20 AM EST
Argued: December 2, 2010 Decided: December 3, 2012
Two years! Is this normal?

[...]

"For the reasons set forth above, we VACATE the judgment of conviction and REMAND the case to the district court." - p.52

http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/e6fa2217-9e3d-46cb-a111-cf9756f3 9663/3/doc/09-5006_complete_opn.pdf

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FDA is out-of-date and out-of-touch
Authored by: trevmar on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 12:43 PM EST
While my first instinct is to support the FDA's authority here, that is really
all they have left - Authority.

FDA lost their Science in about 2005, when the reviewing staff were told not to
waste their precious time going to conferences, or reading new papers.

This decision (which will open up the public debate) is in the Public Interest,
believe me. The epidemic of untreatable chronic disease continues apace.
Medicine has to start delivering answers, and quickly, if we are to evade
collapse of our entire health system. Up until now many important voices have
been stifled by fear of FDA retribution, hopefully we will get beyond that
now...

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