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Comment author: drethelin 07 September 2011 06:16:22AM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 07 September 2011 11:42:44PM 1 point [-]

Oh. I see what you mean.

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