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Originally Posted by 1010011010
I'm sure they do a lot of less controversial stuff that's really beneficial to public health and welfare, of course, but we're a long way from street corner hucksters selling snake oil and laudanum.
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You know that the FDA is a big part of why quack medicines aren't in the mainstream anymore, right? Sure, we get stuff like homeopathy, but at least it's just useless, not actively harmful.
Brose this Google book preview
http://books.google.com/books?id=J5x...okg3qX5ljz5K98
if you have any interest in the topic, one of my professors used it as a textbook a few years ago, and it was quite fascinating. I wasn't aware of the history of the FDA or just how bad things used to be until I read it.