Shlepper, If my criticism of the FDA is nonsense, you presumably think they have achieved perfection in their approach though you say that over the past 6 years things have improved but more needs to be done. Which seems to say that things are not all hunky dory in the FDA approach, which is what I'm saying.
You say anarchy won't solve any problems, but Davis says that about half cancer treatments are off-label. That means they are not scientifically proven in those applications. Which means it is already a scene of anarchy, even if you exclude those people who choose their private treatments with no efficacy proven and ignorant wishful thinking the only basis for treatment.
Those 'alternative treatment' patients feel the need to flee the arrogant world of the Medical Guild. People are a little like cats, which seems to be part of the reason people like cats, and they do not herd very well. There is a perverse aspect to human nature that they will react negatively to authority figures, even if the authority figures soothingly, with violin background music, tell them there is nothing to worry about and they should not upset their pretty little heads about whatever it is that they are getting all flustered about. Sensible people in the stockmarket, when told there is no need to panic, immediately sell, because they absolutely know that if authorities are telling them everything is all right, it almost certainly isn't.
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Maurice
PS: Thanks for the character reference but personal comments, whether good or bad are not specially useful in these discussions. Yours were a little on the patronizing side. Your posts would be better directed to analysis of FDA approvals techniques than my IQ and personal attributes, and this would better use your considerable brainpower. Despite your considerable brainpower, your post was nonsense! [See what I mean about patronizing?] Please provide the url to reviewer1 comments which you thought worth reviewing. |
