Community | March 11, 2010 | 16 comments

John Stossel On Ending The FDA

source: http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=3404

shanklinmike
3/1/2010 John Stossel explains how the FDA impedes on our individual rights and how the whole bureaucracy is filled with waste and red tape, in many cases to benefit big business.
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  • artemis6
  • shanklinmike
    • 0
      shanklinmike  
    • artemis6:

      Actually, he is against statist corporatist. He is against fascism. He is pro-personal Liberty, not pro-corporate. Corporations are given power by government and it allows them to bend the rules. We need to end corporate personhood AND minimize coercive government that got us into these booms/busts and debt.

    • 1 year ago
  • dariusvons
  • shanklinmike
  • dariusvons
  • UndoInfluence
    • -1
      UndoInfluence  

    • Mike, even for you, this is just plain dumb.
      "It wasn't that the FDA was so smart, it was just so slow that the bad effects were seen in other countries before thalidamide could clear the approval process."

      That's kinda the whole point of the extensive tests required in this country. Drugs don't just have 1 effect once you take them and then your body is cured forever. Most of them you take repeatedly and the long term effects can take years to show. Without the actual safety testing or even just the plain regulation you end up with a marketplace full of drugs that just plain don't work and that will have much worse side effects than the problem they are meant to treat.

      Without the regulation then people in an already desperate state brought on by facing their own mortality are only left with the words of what the companies say their experimental drugs do and don't do. It's not an impingement of the option of a consumer that the FDA is after, it's a control of the options of a potentially disreputable company in a situation of severe power.

      This is all just further proof of how absolutely terrible is the quality of fox news journalism.

    • 1 year ago
  • hunzedog
    • +2
      hunzedog  

    • oh they are doing a bang up job. hell with only 500 heart attacks a month gsk is great,just keep those checks coming......

    • 1 year ago
  • neocongo
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      neocongo  

    • I worked for several years in a biopharmaceutical industry and all I have to say about that is you are very fucking glad we have the FDA inspecting the industries it does.

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
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      shanklinmike  
    • neocongo:

      I would rather have someone who isn't bought out by big pharma do it....but then again, big pharma is backed by statism as well so it's hard to escape it's enslavement. I would trust independent reviewers over some monopoly government that is in bed with business any day. It should be voluntary, if the people want to buy items from unapproved big pharma, they have that right. The FDA is a MAJOR contributor in the war on drugs, at least their laws go to strength prohibitions.

    • 1 year ago
  • indecisiveh
  • Saladin
    • -1
      Saladin  

    • Right, because the good 'ol days of having cocaine in our children s' medicine were SO much better than this messy bureaucracy!

      John Stossel is a boob.

      Voted down.

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
  • Saladin
  • UtopianSky
    • +2
      UtopianSky  

    • There's a big difference between saying we need to end the FDA and saying it needs to be overhauled, because no way do we want the pharmaceutical companies churning out whatever they want with no concern for our wellbeing.

      Not to mention the food companies. If they had their way, the store shelves would be filled with so much crap that Twinkies would look like health food in comparison.

      Those companies need regulation and oversight- just not from a corrupt system.

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
    • 0
      shanklinmike  
    • UtopianSky:

      The FDA has been in bed with big pharma for years, where have you been? Just like the Fed was involved with the housing boom and bust policies through cheap credit and extending credit to those who couldn't afford it. The FDA is fascism, not safety.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
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