[armada651]

The FDA's continual foot dragging on approving Thalidomide is criminal. West Germany has already thoroughly reviewed it and decided it was safe for approval. Is there any reason to believe that German scientists are any less competent than their American counterparts?

Frances Kelsey is just another example of bureaucrats flexing their power to aggrandize their own importance.

[andrei_says_]

You forgot the /s and that may be confusing to many.

Frances Kelsey refused to approve the drug despite immense pressure to do so, and thus prevented releasing a drug causing birth defects.

[dcolkitt]

Covid kills more people every day than the entire number of birth defects caused by thalidomide in its entire history. Maybe it's time to start living in the here and now, instead of worrying about a minor incident from more than half a century ago. It's easy to count type I errors, now actually make an effort to quantify that against the countless number of type II errors.

I'm willing to bet you any amount up to $10,000 that AstraZeneca vaccine does not result in more than ten thousand deaths worldwide within the next two years. You clearly believe otherwise, since you think it's prudent for the FDA not to approve it. If you're not willing to risk your money, why are you willing to risk people's lives? Do you accept?