At 06:50 PM 3/15/96 +0100, Asgaard wrote:
FDA has a very good reputation
This is not correct: The FDA has a thoroughly villainous reputation. Among other things it engages in corruption and extortion. Companies who want their stuff approved hire ex FDA "advisors". There is ample evidence that these advisors do no actual work, the FDA simply knocks back applications that fail to pay large sums to their friends. Indeed one company recently won a court case on this ground. The FDA is famous for grotesque scientific incompetence, (as for example its recent showboating on silicone), for playing to the gallery, for simple extortion, as a court recently found, for corruptly excluding drugs that people who are not well connected wish to sell and for corruptly approving the often identical drugs that people who are well connected wish to sell, and for a callous and light hearted disregard for human lives. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com