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The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work (jacobin.com)

submitted 1 month ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Over the last several decades, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed pharma companies to sell hundreds of drugs to patients without adequate evidence that they work and, in many cases, with clear signs that they pose a risk of serious harm.

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Phenylephrine is back on the menu, boys!

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (12 children)

That's the best case.

I'm thinking thalidomide.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe we can get LSD pregnancy medicine to market this time

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

can we only test in on men too?

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