On: Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease and You Can’t (2012)

[tshaddox]

I haven't decided on a hierarchy. I asked why I should expect the FDA to be more reliable than the drug companies.

[clarky07 → tshaddox]

because they aren't for profit? their only reason for existing at all is to keep harmful things from being approved for sale.

I'm by no means saying the FDA is perfect or infallible, far from it. Just that it's super easy to rank them above the drug companies in reliability as to a drugs safety and efficacy.

[tshaddox → clarky07]

I don't see why profit incentive is obviously a worse way to get reliability than the incentives of politicians and FDA employees.

[brazzledazzle → tshaddox]

Does every thread have to devolve into a debate about the merits of libertarianism?