Re:Biohackers Creating Open-Source Insulin
by replicatorblog on Thursday November 19, 2015 @09:35AM
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This is definitely the case. There's a term called "Regulatory Capture" that describes this phenomena. I think it's less active scheming to stomp down startups and more a natural outgrowth of a world where the larger companies find it easier to comply with marginal increases in regulatory scrutiny than to fight the PR/lobbying war to oppose them.
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Re:Biohackers Creating Open-Source Insulin
by refurb on Thursday November 19, 2015 @11:44AM
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You think big pharma encourages more regulation by the FDA? Jesus, they have a hard enough time getting approved under current rules. It would be a death sentence for them if they made them more stringent.
Every big pharma/biotech I've worked for has always pushed the FDA to make exceptions to the rules. They certainly aren't push for more of them.