Why do so many innovative therapies never see the light of day
The FDA discourages inexpensive remedies that work and green-lights expensive remedies that don’t. Add in the usual regulatory capture and revolving door, and you have a totally dysfunctional and corrupt agency. From A Midwestern Doctor at midwesterndoctor.com:
Story at a Glance:
•The FDA was established in 1906 in response to public concern over unsafe food and drugs, such as spoiled food and counterfeit products. However, food industry lobbyists gradually gained influence, leading to the removal of the agency’s original leader. As a result, numerous harmful food additives were granted “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) status and continue to be used today.
•In 1962, the FDA was given broad powers to oversee drug safety following the thalidomide incident. Unfortunately, the new regulations created strict standards for drug efficacy that were often selectively enforced, benefiting the pharmaceutical industry. Unfortunately, the FDA increasingly targeted natural therapies, which led to many being erased from history.
•Despite numerous attempts to reform the agency, issues of inefficiency and bias within the FDA persist. This article examines these challenges and suggests potential reforms to improve the agency’s role in safeguarding public health.
For most of my life, I’ve observed the FDA belligerently suppress natural treatments and any unorthodox therapy which threatens the medical monopoly while simultaneously railroading through a variety of unsafe and ineffective drugs regardless of how much public protest the agency meets. Consider this 2004 Senate testimony by the FDA scientist who got Vioxx banned that accurately described exactly what would come to pass with the COVID vaccines two decades later:
