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Podcast for 20 August 2017

Started by MrBogosity, August 20, 2017, 03:27:49 PM

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August 20, 2017, 03:27:49 PM Last Edit: August 20, 2017, 07:37:17 PM by MrBogosity
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23:05 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: John Tozzi (nominated by Altimadark) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/americans-are-dying-younger-saving-corporations-billions

37:38 - Idiot Extraordinaire: FDA http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/28/540012363/fda-proposes-cutting-nicotine-amounts-in-cigarettes
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September 01, 2017, 03:13:08 PM #1
Some Statists are so dedicated to defending the FDA they will wander into completely failing to do so.  Once, I was pointing out that the FDA had killed tens of thousands of people ACCORDING TO ITS' OWN PRESS RELEASE (this was back when they FINALLY approved a beta blocker in the early 70's, which relates to another amusing story) because the drug had been delayed several years and thus it must be the case that similar numbers of people had died each year while the drug waited on approval.  One statist was so keen to defend the FDA that he claimed you shouldn't trust the FDA's press release to be accurate.  He was specifically claiming the FDA hadn't caused harm because it was releasing false information about the safety and efficacy of a drug.

The other amusing story is about the asshole who appears to have been largely responsible for the long period where no drugs for the treatment of anything related to the blood were approved.  This was the guy Ralph Nader started a public campaign to get put back on the approvals side of things when the FDA transferred him to enforcement specifically because his approvals division had approved no drugs whatsoever the entire time he was there (and even tried to falsely claim he was involved in not approving Thalidomide and made the false claim that Thalidomide was not approved because it was suspected to be teratogenic in humans and not purely because the application was incomplete).  (I found a newspaper article quoting Ralph Nader praising this idiot before Congress and one Statist claimed that the existence of a newspaper article was evidence that it HADN'T happened.  Strange how they can suddenly become Moon Hoaxers like that.)  The amusing part was an apparently unrelated series of letters to the editor from numerous drivers in the Washington, DC area complaining about a particular motorist who made a habit of driving at the speed limit in the passing lane (which, unusually for the US, the District of Columbia did not prohibit at that time).  Said motorist eventually wrote in to defend himself, claiming it was entirely legal for him to do so, and it turned out to be the same guy who killed so many people delaying or stopping FDA approvals a decade earlier.  It turns out he was sort of an all-purpose asshole.
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