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this is only relevant if you can give us data on the drugs that would kill thousands that the fda prevents from being marketed.
No - that would be relevant if I were claiming that the FDA should be abolished. Here, I'm only claiming that they do not, in fact, approve a drug if its expected benefits outweigh its expected costs. Approval appears to require something closer to a 10/1 benefit/cost ratio.
sorry, I was thrown off by your last sentence "Exercise for the reader: Find other cases where cautionary measures are more dangerous than nothing." Seems like a fairly explicit point about how the fda is worse than nothing.
Oh. I see what you mean.