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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
It's not like the straws won't already have undergone some scutiny. Big grey area between snake oil and FDA approved.
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It would have to pass the first phase of clinical trials, yes. That first phase is testing the medicine on healthy humans to see if it is toxic in the short term. The second level of testing is on the efficacy of the drug, which is infinitely more important. The legislation opens the doors for snake oil because you can pass phase 1 and never pursue subsequent trials while still profiting off of your product.
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Where did I say I support the Goldwater Group? I just think them, as a non-profit, signing on doesn't hurt. And senator Ron Johnson wrote the bill. Yes, it does go along the lines of what the GG has been trying to do for years.
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They're a non-profit organization with crazy strong lobbying powers, placing them amongst organizations such as the NRA and Greenpeace. But who endorses it is not important to me, I'm discussing the actual content of the bill.
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In this extreme partisan era, that fact that no democrats or independents opposed the bill counts for a bit more in my book than your typical cynical opinion of things.
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The last close to unanimous vote I remember was the Iraq war approval.
And even though I came to my own conclusions when I read about the legislation and what it did, I am
far from alone in my
views.
“This bill is inherently deceptive,” Alison Bateman-House, a medical ethicist at New York University who led the charge against Johnson’s bills, wrote in an email. “What [patients] have a right to (and did long before this bill) is to ask drug companies for permission to use their experimental drugs outside of clinical trials. If the drug company says no, both before and after this legislation, that's the final word: neither the FDA nor the courts have to power to make companies provide access to their experimental drugs-in-development.”