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To: shero who wrote (2791)	12/12/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3702

messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com FDA supporters write. ------------------------------------------------------------ Risking Jobs And Lives One product that flew through the FDA "fast-track" process was the diabetes drug Rezulin, now associated with at least 33 deaths in this country and Japan due to liver damage. There is strong medical opinion that the world could have lived without Rezulin or, at least, that its prescription should have been restricted to a small number of special cases. But due to promotional efforts by medical "product champions," more than 1 million Americans now take Rezulin. ------------------------------------------------------------- This says that the FDA approval process doesn't necessarily protect people which is the supposed intent. Can one sue the FDA for a relative dying who might have been saved by Oncolym? Since the dead person has been denied good old American human rights such as "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" against their will there seems a good case. It also says "...that the world could have lived without Rezulin..." and this is the crux. The statist, centralist, power-hungry collectivists have a concept of "the world living". This is like saying if one pulls a grey whisker out of a beard, one still has a beard. While that is true, it makes the assumption that the purpose of the whiskers is to form a beard. In the case of a beard, this is indeed the purpose. In the case of a sick person who prefers not to be dead, one could argue a case that the individual is the purpose of the individual, not that they are here to provide whisker services for the great collective FDA bureaucracy or whatever the FDA definition of "the world" is in this case. The USA constitution says that the individual is what the USA constitution is for. The USA lectures China and others about human rights being sacrosanct or some baloney which they don't take seriously back in the USSA. There is in a few respects more freedom in Russia than the USA now - most people don't pay taxes for a start. The UN has a declaration of human rights. People all over the place burble on about freedom. China is constantly harangued about how the individual's rights should be paramount whereas China supports the FDA stance that the people are there to serve society, not society to serve people. It's probably true that both exist to serve each other, a bit like our mitochondria and the rest of us exist to serve each other. Richard Dawkins 'The Selfish Gene' is related to this topic and supports the individual's importance though in a very harsh evolutionary way. Maybe the truth is that we will end up more like an anthill - all clones serving the great collective. With all the grey hairs being pulled out, bit by bit, we will become very homogenous. So, which of you grey hairs is happy to be pulled out because you are spoiling the picture for the FDA gang whose world can live without Rezulin? Or YOU! Maurice