[perl4ever]

I think people who talk about "over regulation" should be excluded from serious discussion. "More" or "less" or "no" regulation is never the answer.

I don't think we have ultra safe drugs. I could be just paranoid, but I don't think the FDA is that good at monitoring the manufacturing of drugs. And I know I've read about how sometimes they approved a new dosage without actual testing and it turned out in at least one case the delivery mechanics didn't work properly.

Deregulation is like reform. Enough people think it's automatically good, that it's completely meaningless, and because it's meaningless the worst people pick it up as a slogan and run with it.

As someone that could really benefit from new drug approvals, I don't see deregulation as my savior because if it's executed by the worst people, then it will just lead to more snake oil and less ability to differentiate.