Survey: Half of US doctors use placebo treatments

[DuncanONeil]

"If the FDA is voluntary then the choice of the people is not between "good" and "bad" drugs. It is a choice of drugs bearing a seal of approval vs drugs that do not. Heck, do away with the FDA and have somebody like Consumer Reports or UL. Both of whom have a stellar reputation to uphold!" (message 338)

How is the above advocating for either anarchy or abolishment of the FDA?

By definition you are actually advocating for anarchy in drug production, namely the removal of all regulations pertaining to it.

Anarchists believe if we get the laws and rules out of the way we would all get along a lot better. I however don't really buy that.

As for the regulations not stopping every bad drug, of course they don't. Some problems are almost impossible to detect, and if you had a standard that stopped every problem drugs would come to the market far slower, and testing would be much more expensive. The current system is a balance of risk and payoff. It has some recalls due to problems, but detects far more in testing.

Your proposed system says "the regulations aren't perfect lets not have any at all".

[SadisticNature]

So you want to leave a token organization with no real enforcement powers, and remove all the regulations. Anarchy is the absence of regulation ergo this is anarchy.

"If the FDA is voluntary then the choice of the people is not between "good" and "bad" drugs. It is a choice of drugs bearing a seal of approval vs drugs that do not. Heck, do away with the FDA and have somebody like Consumer Reports or UL. Both of whom have a stellar reputation to uphold!" (message 338)

How is the above advocating for either anarchy or abolishment of the FDA?

[DuncanONeil]

Then I must presume that you favor all choice to be regulated by the Government. Irrespective of the costs involved.
Remember, all restaurant's in Judge Dredd's future were Taco Bell.

So you want to leave a token organization with no real enforcement powers, and remove all the regulations. Anarchy is the absence of regulation ergo this is anarchy.

[SadisticNature]

I know that we have higher standards in Canada regarding meat quality so Taco Bell has to use a different supply chain. And even Americans say the Taco Bell's are better here so those standards appear to be working!

I don't favor all choice being regulated, and I do believe in analysis of costs and risks vs benefits. I just think you're advocating no regulation at all, because you're against it in the areas that most need it (health and financial).

Then I must presume that you favor all choice to be regulated by the Government. Irrespective of the costs involved.
Remember, all restaurant's in Judge Dredd's future were Taco Bell.

[DuncanONeil]

Perhaps if we truly educated our people we would not have a need for a nanny to tell us when the stove is hot!
The problem is, largely, that the regulations that get written are not always reasonable. In addition regulation today is most often predicated on the supposition that people are too stupid to bother with doing any thinking. For example; coffee is hot, keep away from sensitive parts of the body! But since somebody was too (insert appropriate adjective) to secure the coffee money has to be spent to make a warning that those very same people will not read! Same goes for signing contracts.

The Taco Bell thing was an allegory. Stole it from a movie!

I know that we have higher standards in Canada regarding meat quality so Taco Bell has to use a different supply chain. And even Americans say the Taco Bell's are better here so those standards appear to be working!

I don't favor all choice being regulated, and I do believe in analysis of costs and risks vs benefits. I just think you're advocating no regulation at all, because you're against it in the areas that most need it (health and financial).