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		terminalshort 49 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scanda... It's a risk reward tradeoff which is fundamentally not an objective decision. Nobody is equipped to make it.

Retric 49 days ago [–]

You assume there is a benefit to be had. Most drugs fail because they don’t do the thing people want them to do.

In general prescription drugs have massive downsides and they still got approved.

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