a drug called Thalidomide. It was quick approved in European countries and reach final approval in the U.S., much later. The result was that most of the birth defects that came from using the drug are experienced in European nations.

The Republican mantra is that regulations stifles the economy. But many regulations were developed to solve a problem or to address changes that occur in the environment or in response to new technology.

Traffic lights stifle my ability to get from point A to point B in an efficient manner. Lets deregulate traffic lights.

Thalidomide (a drug). L-tryptophan (a food supplement). The Dalkon Shield & certain tampons (those latter 2 examples are considered medical devices).

And on and on.

People want "instant" and long-term health effects are rarely "instant".

What many don't understand is that there are panels of outside experts - similar to those highlighted during the COVID pandemic, which for that case were CDC's ACIP and FDA's VRBPAC - participate in the review process for FDA-regulated products.

Trying to reinvent a wheel that has been dicked with over the decades, particularly for political reasons, will solve nothing.

new rules. We will be using leaches and bloodletting as remedies for all illnesses.

so maybe he has the right idea. But sometimes doctors are hand in glove with the pharmaceutical industry, so I dunno. However, if he could revise the layers of bureaucracy in the FDA, I'm for it.