FDA--Ignoring advice?
 

Interesting article. very disturbing if what is printed is a true account of events.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...301311_pf.html

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This isn't good ..... big pharmaceutical money wins again... less drugs to treat people when the bugs get resistant.

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Who needs nature to help with population control when the FDA can do it for you.

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This is what happens, Tony, when big business owns the government.

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And it matters not what Government is in power. Principles go out the window when money is being flashed about. I don't care for lobbyists too much either.

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The current one seems particularly adept. So, no Tony, I don't think it helps by smearing all governments and all parties. None are perfect, but some are considerably worse than others.

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Obviously we are going to differ here. There is no differentiation in my view whether some are worse than others. A piece of string is a piece of string, be it one inch long or one mile long.

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So there's absolutely no difference between one that may allow legislation that could affect 1000's of lives and one that would only affect 100's. Agreed, on a basic moral level there isn't but on a practical level there's a huge difference.

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It's the "black and white" view common of the neocon and born-again right. They just can't see the shades of gray between.

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Okay.... if all parties are equally bad when it comes to allowing corporations to run the government, then what's the solution?

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Not the first time I have been labelled thus but I think you are better than that. There is a hint here and correct me if I'm wrong that the Republicans are capable of doing more wrong than Democrats. Unfortunately that is a theme which is prevalent on BE. That is what I interpret your answer to be.
The fact that I try to live upto my principles is being rediculed and that only proves my point because my thinking does not fall in line with yours and I am classified a neocon and born again right. Let me say for the first time on BE you could not be more wrong if you tried and that is meant for a few others as well.

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Maybe it's the "if you're going to do something, you might as well do it right" attitude. If you're going to do something why only do it a little bit.

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To see if it works?

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I think it's more a case of historically the right is more likely to try to please big business than the left (in any country). Technically the US does not have a political party truly on the left so therefore they are both bad in this regard, just one worse than the other.

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Exactly, everyone knows that in a true experiment you get a better idea of the consequences the larger the sample size, so why bother with smaller samples.