• TransNeko@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Safe like the hundreds of FDA approved drugs that later turned out to be deadly? or safe like the FDA approved drugs that were found to be placebo effects? safe like the pills that have more warning labels on them than a nuke? or safe like the e-stims used by physical therapists that ended up hurting patients because there weren’t limits set on their usage?

    oh and my personal favorites since you mentioned them. all of the FDA approved supplements that turned out to be terrible. like the Modern Warrior Ready capsules.

    Some of the FDA’s biggest fuckups:

    opioids-- addiction

    Diethylstilbestrol (DES), 1971 – cancer

    Bextra, 2005 – toxic epidermal necrolysis which had a 50% lethality rate

    Vioxx, 2004 – the FDA ignored evidence of harm for years

    Fen-Phen, 1997 – the FDA ignored reports of horrific side-effects until a woman died

    Darvon/Darvocet – it took the FDA 50+ years to remove this after approving in it 1957

    other fuckups by the FDA:

    slow response to contaminated baby food

    approving known risky drugs like Aduhelm

    allowing purposefully misleading marketing

    in 2017 an FDA inspector found serious issues with a Chinese manufacturing plant. superiors in the FDA ordered the issue to be ignored and even suppressed.

    Pharma kickbacks for approval of drugs (Pharma pays FDA to approve without testing)

    FDA director who took bribes to approve aspartame

    The protein scandal in China where the FDA knew that the tested samples were being spiked and the FDA looked the other way letting around 300000 children get sick, with around 54000 hospitalized and 6 babies died.

    The FDA has a history of ignoring recommendations from advisory committees, taking bribes to let drugs pass inspection, and even knowingly buries evidence of fraud in medical trials.

    so yes let’s make the FDA’s word on what is and isn’t ok… law.

    A physical therapist can leave you paralyzed after a single visit. you going to call them hacks and refuse to use them as well? and are you going to use contaminated medication just because the FDA says it’s safe? cause that’s the logic you are using.

    but yes… tell me how the FDA which is controlled by the US government is the god of all health care.