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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by thesausageking on Saturday June 12, 2021 @12:31PM (#27485536)
That's not how that works. If Biogen tried to sell unlabelled bottles of aducanumab, the FDA would come after them in a heartbeat.

Picture the judge in the court case: "So, you developed this new molecule that never existed before, spent years testing it to treat alzheimer's, there's been hundreds of news stories about it, there is no other reason a consumer would buy it, and it costs $50k, but you expect the court to believe you didn't think it was being sold as a treatment?"

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Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh... by cogman10 on Saturday June 12, 2021 @10:33PM (#27489290)
Might I again refer you to the fact that you can literally buy arsenic on Amazon.

Would they do it? No. Would it be risky? Yes. Would it be illegal? No.

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