[JumpCrisscross]

> the feedback they get is either negative if there's a bad product released, or neutral if there is no terrible product released

Patient activists and drug companies lobby to make stonewalling approvals difficult.

[throwway120385]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure lobbying and hiring good lobbyists to the FDA is the only reason one of the projects I worked on saw the light of day. If our CEO hadn't already been through the process it would have died in De Novo.