Re: FDA Calls Crestor Ads 'False and Misleading'
From: Mark Probert (Probert_at_lumbercartel.com)
Date: 12/25/04
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Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 09:49:18 -0500
"James Stein" <NoSpamForMeThanks@si.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "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:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>Agreed. There are those who expect perfection from the FDA and all
> >> >>humankind.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > There is a HUMONGOUS continuum between "perfection" and the
> >> > performance of the FDA, Marla.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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.
I like the relationship of speed and thoroughness to the relationship as
expressed by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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