Maurice/Shero, The FDA, while bureaucratic, is in a no-win situation: If they don't approve a drug before side-effects are known, they lose, because someone, a cancer victim perhaps, might be saved. If they do approve a drug; e.g. Viagra, Rituxan, which turns out to have side-effects that seriously harm or kill some people, they also lose. To me, our real problem is the loss of individual responsibility we citizens have undergone. As soon as something bad happens to us, instead of saying that's the breaks of life, we sue; e.g. all the tobacco victims who want subsidized aid for the result of their own decisions; e.g., the people who build houses and hotels on ocean beaches who want subsidized insurance against hurricane damage (i.e., they want someone else to bear the cost of their mistakes).
Bottom line: We've brought this all onto ourselves. |
