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That doesn't mean the FDA is bad. It means it needs some fixing. I have no objections with having a shake-up to improve its efficiency.

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I could live with the FDA if they had no coercive authority, merely advisory.

[/ QUOTE ]The FDA does not coerce you into taking any drug.

That's the job of the good doctor looking after you. He is the one who pockets the pharmaceutical's commission, not the FDA. The FDA merely forbids a pharmaceutical from pushing on you (through its salesmen - read: doctors) drugs that were experimentally, scientifically shown to cause more harm than good.

You're saying the toxicity of a drug is best decided by the Invisible Hand of the Free Market? My bad. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]