Dago: Our drug administration is not without faults, but funny that we lead the world in producing life saving drugs, drugs that have been tested and deemed safe. You confuse "because of" and "despite of". Yes, our drug industry has not been killed yet but many people needlessly suffered and died.
Consider the alternative, untested drugs, with unknown side effects, unknown incompatibilities. At least I feel reasonable safe when prescribed a drug that its use is safe and it actually will help cure me. I did consider the alternative. There is a difference between
licensing and
certification. I would look for a label on a medicine saying "Certified by the FDA" - or any private accreditation institution like Consumer Union, AMA or Underwriters Laboratories or maybe a foreign equivalent. Or maybe I have three months to live and do not care much about side-effects that take 10 years to verify.
Do you know how much faster would a drug approval go and how much safer the drugs would be if dying people were allowed to use the drugs still in testing? How much additional data would be accumulated to benefit those of us who would wait?
Do you know how many people needlessly died because Bayer could not advertise aspirin (which was in use for over 100 years) as heping prevent death after heart attacks?
It was a common knowlege in medical community, but untill the few years have passed, they could not even claim that with "(Not verified by FDA)" disclaimer.
Do you know how many people are dying from the rear deseases because due to FDA restrictions it is not possible to produce a drug unless it is used by a huge market? 10-year testing process is so ecpensive that unless you have millions of patients, it does not pay to bother? So all companies produce dozens of versions of redundant headache medicines but none for rare kinds of cancers, etc.
Maybe those few thousand people dying from them would be willing to use less tested medicine - and serve as test subjects in the process.
Maybe people would prefer cheaper and less safe drug to no drug at all?
But we are denied free choice. Informed willing adults cannot perform a transaction because it offends sensibilities of a third-party socialist bisybody like you who "knows better what we need".
I wish you could, I would love to hear how you feel about Salmonella. I have had it, its not alot of fun. Since passing laws regarding such things as milk pastureization, illnesses and deaths attributable to food poisoning have dropped dramatically, darned that damned government interference. You are an ignorant. You see obvious side-effect but miss many others. People drank raw milk for millenia. I drank raw milk for 25 years in Soviet Union - not the most sanitary of places - and have never even heard of anyone getting salmonella.
My whole family - including my 2-year old, has been drinking raw milk for over half a year now. I get if from a farm 150 miles from where I live and it holds 2 weeks in a refrigerator.
The government regulations actually make it more dangerous for me because I would rather buy fresh milk every day than risk 2-week old milk.
There were no deadly epidemics before 1930 when the laws were enacted. Since the laws were pushed through by political lobbies, enormous progress occured in technology - every farm now has cooling equipment, access to refrigerate transportation, desinfecting and testing methods, etc. Milk was safe before and is safer now.
Maybe you've got your salmonella because your immune system is not up to the task - because of the government-approved crap you are eating that has essential nutrients and coenzymes destroyed?
Just how did you get that salmonella? Isn't it supposed to be impossible - or rather illegal - for a law-abiding serf like you? Did you eat some non-approved food? You should turn yourself in to DHS or CDC for punishment, you salmonella-getting traitor.
Again, these statements just help me believe you would be happier elsewhere, somewhere without pesky regualtion designed to safeguard your health. You believe that because you are not very smart and do not understand what I am saying. I - personally - am doing OK. I can see the fallacy of the government labels and disregard them. I can find what is good for me and get it - food, medicine, etc. Government makes it harder for me but I can do it here - despite the governmenmt - probably easier than anywhere else. It's the dumb and poor people who you are trying to protect that suffer most from junk food and restrictions on private businesses.
Yup, all our fault, all ours. The charities worked so well under the Taliban, oh, except for those 2 girls imprisoned for their work. You are ignorant again. I've read their interview. They admitted violating the agreement with government and performng actions they promised not to. They tried to convert muslims into christianity which is forbidden by Koran.
I do not consider such people "humanitarian helpers". They are missionaries and they should be ready to die for spreading their beliefs. And those two were ready.
I do not care which religious nut gets himself killed - christian shoving a Bible down peope's throats or a mullah doing the same with a Koran.
People who actually provided humanitarian help - medicine, edication, food, clothes - to the afghanis were not molested by Taliban.
Those real humanitarians were mad as hell at those two scoundrels - for jeopardising legitimate charities by using humanitarian help as a cover for their illegal religious prpoaganda.
do it about something causing real problems, not how you can't buy "fresh" milk. Could I buy a donor organ? What? I can't? Because it offends your sensibilities? You woudl rather allow a prospective donor to stay poor and prospective recepient to die so youc an feel better? OK.
Maybe about religious intolerance in other countries, How do you know I don't? This board is promarily dadicated to US politics and I am talking about US politics here. I talk about other topics in thne appropraite forums.
maybe about tribes in Africa hacking off limbs off of other tribes members, maybe about fanatical muslims killing people for not following Islam. Our government should stop supporting those regimes, I've always said that.
No, you worry about that great Satan Bush. He has much more effect on my life than some guy in Africa, so it's only natural that my concern about him has priority.
miko
