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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by jamincan on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:44AM (#30101150)
Assuming you are talking about Oxycontin, the problem there was that there was no expert consensus - in fact there was no information at all on addictiveness - but the FDA still allowed that language to be used in the promotional literature. The guy who approved it ended up working for Purdue a few months after leaving the FDA.

The story of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family definitely exposes issues with the FDA, but I'm not sure it's a good example of expert consensus getting it wrong. (Not to say that expert consensus is always right.)

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by base698 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:55AM (#30101279)
Doctors were parroting the line and prescribing the drug anyway. Despite their perception as experts apparently a lot of them never bothered to cross check the alleged study with their common sense and previous training.
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