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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by deeg on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:33AM (#28276361)
"mostly meaningless" is an overstatement. The FDA oversees a lot of drug applications and gets it right a vast majority of the time. No human endeavor is perfect; if there's evidence that 20% of approvals are wrong then I'll agree that there's a problem.
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by SantalBlush on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:39AM (#28276447)
>No human endeavor is perfect

This should be posted to the front page of the site. I get so tired of seeing comments pointing out some flaw in an institution and concluding that the institution is therefore useless. It really is lazy thinking.

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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by mdp2021 on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:40PM (#28279359)
I think the point is more about putting "authority" into perspective.
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by jsrjenkins on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:06PM (#28277989)
It is also lazy thinking to say that since it is approved by an institution it must be good.
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by throwawayzz007 on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:20PM (#28279888)
One third of all FDA approved drugs from 2001 to 2010 were pulled from the market post-approval.

So it’s not 20%. It’s a third.

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