Re: POLITICS Adjudicating Pollution Disputes

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At 5:03 PM +0000 3/8/05, wrote:

>Message: 21

> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:31:01 -0500

> From: Idol <Idol@...>

>Subject: Re: Re: POLITICS Adjudicating Pollution Disputes (was

>Digest Number 3425)

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>>I'll challenge you on the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry. I contend

>>that the track record of automobile manufacturer's and food producers is

>>MUCH WORSE that the FDA record and that the record of the pharmaceutical

>>industry only proves that business can't be trusted to police itself.

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>Not only that, most of the FDA's deficiencies result from what has

>effectively been an industry takeover.

Right. The problem is that such a takeover is inevitable. It's not

just that industry has more incentive than the average Joe to get

their guys in there. It's that the people who have the science are by

and large industry people. One isn't going to bother learning what

one needs to know to do science at FDA without the prospect of a job,

and most of the jobs out there are private-sector, i.e., " industry " .

So unless you staff totally with bright-eyed idealists fresh out of

college, the system can't be fixed, and since for organizational

reasons you can't do that, the system really CAN'T be fixed and would

better be dismantled.

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