Simpleton's Guide: The Food and Drug Administration

Professor Scammington speaks to the relative evils of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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[truthadvocate]

Great video! I like the Lucian Freud painting.

[simpletonsguide]

Thanks for noticing!

-Prof. Scammington

[Ragnarok187]

You forgot to mention that the FDA only needs 2 positive studies to approve a drug (in the case of psychiatric 'mental illness' drugs). So even if a drug company gets back 20 failed studies they only have to supply 2 positive ones for it to pass FDA approval. Oh and you also forgot to mention the FDA gets advice from Big-Pharma reps so the information is completely biased and misrepresented.

The FDA isn't on our side to help us. They've passed all sorts of nasty things.

[Lewis1985]

I'm going to rape you. Is that simple enough.

[nihilistcat]

watch raw for 30 days on youtube

then stare at your youtube name

it will all make sense

[gfoote32]

It's all a scam..from the drug companies that submit a new drug that proves to be fatal, from the FDA that approves it and allows toxic chemicals, like high fructose corn syrup, to be put into the food supply, from the food companies that add such ingredients to their products to cut costs, to the healthcare companies that know what cause disease but exploit the healthcare system to turn a profit.

[cbob0080]

Yeah, then we can get somone using mercury salts. Awesome!

[willisdaillest]

who would listen to anyone named scammington?

[LAIDBACKMANNER]

over conscious? yeah, right... tell that to my dead grand father and to smokers that were told "it's OK" back in the day(1900). FU<K YOU FDA... I'M ABOUT TO FU<K AROUND AND TELL PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD GET MAD AT YOU AND NOT AT THE DRUG COMPANY!!! people are too quick to blame. they always blame what hurt/killed them... but not you.... get what i'm saying!

[johnebii]

who is there to tell us the difference between company spin and fact on...say...cars?

companies like consumer reports, car and driver mag, and others actually make a profit doing exactly this b/c people want that type of information. also, you assume that the fda is ACTUALLY doing that. they are not. they let drugs through or not based on political favors and other non-medical factors such as how many drugs of the same classification are already on the market. the government is not our saviour.

[nadjuder]

WOW, you have a lot of trust in the FDA. WITH THE FDA millions of people suffer needlessly because the power for you or I to take a drug has been stripped from us.

THANKS FDA!!!