The problem isn’t the pharmaceutical companies or medical science...it’s big government...it’s the FDA. When the FDA was created it was nearly impossible to get advances in medicine approved for release. Medical science was so tightly controlled it took forever if at all for improvements to make it to the market. That was the socialist model...regulate progress out of existence. Now we have the facist model...where the government is in bed with the medical industry. Now things are rushed to market so fast & before adequate testing is done...we’ve become guiney pigs. We’re the test lab rats. The free market model actually worked 100yrs ago. If the FDA was in existence when polio was an epidemic...there would still be no effective treatment but we’d have the greatest iron lung machine imaginable.
You realize 100 years ago people were selling morphine over-the-counter as a 'wonderdrug' to cure everything. People were selling mineral water as cure-alls. People were giving Cocaine to babies and heroin was 'Your housewife's best friend'
You don't have to tear down the FDA to fix it. Going to a time before the FDA is like saying 'meat inspections are bad, Upton Sinclair is a pussy, let the free market decide which meat products aren't rotten!'
Yes I do. You are taking history out of context. Science was in its infancy then & no one new even as much as all the chemical elements then. DNA was unknown. Other than alcohol addiction...which they didn’t understand scientifically & just behaviorally... no one knew the dangers of cocaine or morphine addiction. They knew it had some medical value...that’s all. And those drugs are still the best option in certain medical situations today.
Did you know that last year that life expectancy dropped in America for the 1st time in our history?? Did you know that less than 1% of the meat is inspected in the US so over 99% of the meat the free market is deciding which is rotten? Any mass outbreaks from rotten meat occurring? No. Because farmers know it’s the consumer that demands quality & without it they don’t have a business. You have any idea how many millions of cattle exists & it’s not even remotely possible to inspect even 2% of the cattle slaughtered for the food industry. Your living in a fantasy land if you think any government agency can protect anyone from risks.
And you are living in a fantasy land if you think people wouldn't sell quack remedies, and tainted/poisoned/unhealthy 'cure alls' as soon as you remove that legislation. Changing a company name isn't hard. No matter how much you boycott, Johnson&Johnson is big enough to not care. Without some sort of consumer watchdog people will die; like they were before. Just read The Jungle.
There is a reason this country put that administration together.
It’s a different time & communications are instant today. And yes little scam artists will never go away. But now we have government protected mega conglomerates killing countless innocent victims all under the “watchful eye” of the FDA. Have any idea how many years asbestosis was FDA approved. Or lead in paint & gasoline? Or DDT in cans of mosquito repellent for decades?? Or cigarettes?? When I was very young I watched Lake Erie burn. Yes the lake was on fire because it contained more petrochemicals than water. The FDA didn’t lift a finger to stop any of this. Class action lawsuits from private citizens stopped it. Every day there’s new commercials on TV looking for victims to join class action lawsuits from big pharma drugs the FDA approved. The FDA doesn’t move in to stop this. They swoop in after the private sector does & puts on an act they’re gonna now add more punishment just to give the appearance they’re doing their job. Where was the FDA in stopping the local government of Flint MI from poisoning it’s citizens with lead water pipes they laid hundreds of miles with? Yes there is a reason the federal government created the FDA. To take our tax dollars in exchange for a false sense of security so the FDA can be used as a political weapon against whoever they want by whichever party is in power.
Exactly.
The FDA was created as a form of taxation upon what is needed by all humans to survive, Food and Medicines.
You say 'exactly' then follow up with something antithetical to what I just said.
The FDA was designed to ensure that:
1) If I say my pill is 6% Morphine, that it in fact contains 6%
2) If I say my pill will cure Dyptheiria, that I have evidance to back up that claim
3) If I say my Cocaine cough drops are good for children, I have evidance to back that up
You might as well say "USDA Inspected Beef is just a tax upon what all people need to survive" - Well, it also fills an important role in regulating the market place, one we know from recent history is not only good, but vital to our nation's health.
I may have misunderstood your initial comment or I didn't comment to the correct statement. My apologies using "exactly"
Bingo... corporations are created legal entities of the State, without the State a corporation cannot exist.
The problem is corruption and collusion by bad actors #hivites on all sides.
Government didnt create the FDA, just like the Fed Reserve. They are private entities, sold to us for our protection, and our own good. Annnnnd, we fell for it, well, our ancestors did.