CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless

Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by qeternity on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:34PM (#38007696)

> Occams razor

I think Hanlon's razor is more appropriate.

Somewhere there was a team of people in the government who worked untold hours studying this, proposing solutions and ultimately having change enacted. This would have been good for career progression for all involved, not because it was actually good, but simply because they did something. And therein lies government.

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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by paulmd on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:34PM (#38008067)

Hanlon’s razor is a thought-terminating cliche in most circumstances. Malice exists very frequently, as does profit-seeking or other motives that are indistinguishable from malice, and it's not at all the same thing as occam's "don't say god did it when there's a perfectly good mortal explanation" razor.

In the DEAs case it was literally confirmed to be operating on malice since at least the Nixon and Reagan years, when it was deliberately wielded as a weapon to disrupt hippies and black communities, specifically.

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