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Originally Posted by host
Whatever Bushco does in the next two years, they'll own it. Should be
something to see....if we survive what happens next!
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Blaming the Bush administration for the FDA and Vioxx? Please. Utterly ridiculous. The FDA is nowhere near "in the pockets of the industry" and is a tougher critic of pharmaceutical testing and US drug firm practices than any other organization on earth.
The US is probably the most difficult market to get drug approvals in and yet your article decries the regulators as being coerced. The facts fly in complete opposition to the story you posted.
You want to complain about the whole methodology of drug testing, I'm right there with you. Pharma companies use carefully chosen panels of patients that are not representative of the patient population at large and base their tests on, at most, maybe a thousand or two patients. Inevitably you are going to see drugs proven to be dangerous when the number of people exposed to them is enlarged to the xth power. And yet the rigors here in the US are far greater than what we see in the rest of the world. But attempting to place the blame on the Bush administration is downright dishonest and flawed.