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« Reply #25 on: December 31, 2005, 02:02:12 PM »
Quote from: MODU on December 30, 2005, 10:28:46 AM


No.  They do more good than harm.

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« Reply #26 on: December 31, 2005, 07:27:13 PM »
Quote from: Emsworth on December 31, 2005, 01:55:55 PM
Absolutely. The benefit provided by the FDA--deterring the production of unsafe drugs--would be provided much more efficiently by a free market.
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« Reply #27 on: December 31, 2005, 07:43:50 PM »
Quote from: Emsworth on December 31, 2005, 01:55:55 PM
Absolutely. The benefit provided by the FDA--deterring the production of unsafe drugs--would be provided much more efficiently by a free market.

Yeah, and by the time people find out a drug or food product is good or bad, thousands will be dead, anyway.

Sorry if I don't want to go back to the days of snake oil and human body parts ground up into sausage meat.
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« Reply #28 on: December 31, 2005, 07:47:43 PM »
Quote from: Supersoulty on December 31, 2005, 07:43:50 PM
Yeah, and by the time people find out a drug or food product is good or bad, thousands will be dead, anyway.
Why would a company even want to put out a bad drug? It would lose tremendous amounts of money due to lawsuits. Companies would be motivated to check their products thoroughly before selling them.
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« Reply #29 on: December 31, 2005, 07:50:19 PM »
« Edited: December 31, 2005, 07:54:19 PM by Supersoulty »
Quote from: Emsworth on December 31, 2005, 07:47:43 PM
Quote from: Supersoulty on December 31, 2005, 07:43:50 PM
Yeah, and by the time people find out a drug or food product is good or bad, thousands will be dead, anyway.
Why would a company even want to put out a bad drug? It would lose tremendous amounts of money due to lawsuits. Companies would be motivated to check their products thoroughly before selling them.

At first, yes.  Wait about 20 years.

P.S.  Besides, even with the over-sight, now, companies put out bad drugs.  With laxed restirictions, it can only be worse.

And, let's just say that even one bad drug gets out, that would otherwise have been stopped by the FDA.  You aren't going to care much about the free market if it is your wife or kids who is one of the 10,000 people who die, because of it.
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« Reply #30 on: December 31, 2005, 07:56:57 PM »
Quote from: Supersoulty on December 31, 2005, 07:50:19 PM
And, let's just say that even one bad drug gets out, that would otherwise have been stopped by the FDA.  You aren't going to care much about the free market if it is your wife or kids who is one of the 10,000 people who die, because of it.
It is also possible that one very good drug would have got out, but was delayed or stopped by the FDA.
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« Reply #31 on: December 31, 2005, 11:54:29 PM »
The company would be responsible for any harm in court.
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« Reply #32 on: January 01, 2006, 12:14:33 AM »
it definately needs to be reformed but abolished I'm not sure,  although that is a good point that the company could be sued.  Also one messup could ruin the company, and if they tried to sell a bad drug and knew it punative damages could bankrupt even the largest company
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« Reply #33 on: January 01, 2006, 08:04:27 AM »
Quote from: Supersoulty on December 31, 2005, 07:43:50 PM
Sorry if I don't want to go back to the days of snake oil and human body parts ground up into sausage meat.

The USDA usually deals with stuff like that.
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« Reply #34 on: January 01, 2006, 01:42:49 PM »
I enjoy food that wont kill me, and Canadian drugs can get here no matter what they say, so no, it can stay.
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