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by jacoblyles 6192 days ago
>"The FDA has done far, far more good than harm in this case."

How sure are you of that? I am certain that the organization is structured to make many more type II than type I errors, and I would guess that type II errors cause at least the same magnitude of harm and they are, by their nature, much harder to measure.

Random paper on the topic: http://repositories.cdlib.org/pep/96-2/