Re: FDA Calls Crestor Ads 'False and Misleading'
From: James Stein (NoSpamForMeThanks_at_si.rr.com)
Date: 12/24/04
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:43:11 GMT
"Mark Probert" <Mark Probert@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
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> "James Stein" <NoSpamForMeThanks@si.rr.com> wrote in message
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>> "Ilena Rose" <ilena@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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>> > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:09:55 -0500, "Mark Probert" <Mark
>> > Probert@lumbercartel.com> wrote:
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>> >>
>> >>Agreed. There are those who expect perfection from the FDA and all
>> >>humankind.
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>> >
>> > There is a HUMONGOUS continuum between "perfection" and the
>> > performance of the FDA, Marla.
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>> Actually, what we refer to is the fact that people decry how long it
>> takes
>> the FDA to get a drug certified. And when those times are shortened, they
>> complain that the screening process is not rigorous enough. Those two
>> qualities are mutually exclusive, yet people desire both.
>>
>> The FDA is *just* an organization. The fact that an ideal exists does not
>> mean we can achieve it.
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> Which does not mean that there should be anything less than a maximum
> effort
> to achieve it.
Agreed. The issue is simply that the range between "Speed" and
"Thoroughness" is a continuum, and the correct place on that continuum is
entirely subjective - depending on whether you're dying from lacking a
medicine still in testing, or dying from a medicine that got out of testing
too quickly for your own good. The FDA is a victim of the public's demands
that it exist at both poles at once.
Of course that doesn't mean we should not do all within our power to bring
the two poles closer to one another. It's merely the demand that the FDA
somehow be two places at once is absurd.
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