> We know for a fact (like actual empirical fact) that FDA prevents vast numbers of unsafe and ineffective drugs from reaching the market. This is absolutely indisputable.

we also know for a fact that the FDA lets unsafe and ineffective drugs into the market, especially from overseas, slapped with a label that its safe according to the FDA. if its a crapshoot, what's the point really?

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sorcerer-mar 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The point is that it's nowhere close to a crapshoot.

99.99999% of drugs ever created are unsafe or ineffective.

99%+ of the drugs you will ever encounter in your life are both safe and effective.

That is not a crapshoot. Obviously.

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throwawaymaths 7 hours ago | parent [-]

if you are in doubt, propublica has done a huge expose in the major, deliberate lapses of FDA regulation for foreign manufactured drugs

https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-loophole-sun-pha...

	▲	sorcerer-mar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How is that relevant to my point? Despite its failures (however many you want to point out), our regulatory regime converts a pipeline of almost universally ineffective and/or dangerous compounds into a marketplace of almost universally safe and/or effective compounds. This is a fact. Unless you think no one is trying to, would try to, or would deceive themselves into accidentally releasing a dangerous or ineffective compound to consumers?