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Hey, I don’t disagree that that FDA is very conservative. My comment was more around the politics of it.

Look back at the Vioxx hearings. People crapped all over the FDA because they didn’t catch an increased risk of CV issues until post-approval.

If you’re the FDA, it’s “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”.



That’s fair and the struggle for all regulators I would imagine (though the stakes are higher with human health).

The crypto people drive me nuts the same way. One minute they’re extolling the virtue of markets “free” from regulatory interference but the second it turns out the market was a scam they want to know what the government plans to do to get their money back.




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