The Daily Sceptic- Why Medicine Safety Will Get Worse Not Better
Unlike other safety-critical sectors, medicine safety is managed in relative terms, not absolute. Take aviation for example. Aircraft are designed to meet absolute safety targets such as the number of fatal incidents per million flying hours. In contrast, MHRA do not set safety targets for licensed medicines like ‘no more than x deaths or y serious adverse events’. Instead, MHRA licenses a medicine if the clinical trials data indicate that ‘the benefits outweigh the risks’. That’s a charter for collateral damage to start with.
How many medications include somewhere in the wall of text a line like: “we don’t know how this works, just that during testing some of the patients under treatment with this medication improved at a rate greater than those on the placebo”
That being said, the government shouldn’t give anyone blanket immunity in order to get their experimental product to market, especially while working hard to make sure there are no other treatments allowed and approved.
Not even if they give Anthony Fauci milions and millions of dollars to get an approval?
Well… in that case, Reader… where’s that rubber stamp?
Watch some of the US channels with meds ads! Side effects include………………………………………
Regarding the article on Aspirin (no longer being recommended to help prevent heart attacks because it can cause stomach bleeding), don’t all nonsteroidal, anti inflammatory drugs have increased bleeding as a side effect? Ibuprofen certainly does. But despite this ‘life threatening’ side effect, I still take it for muscle aches.
When those responsible for injuring millions and killing tens of thousands are exempt from any legal responsibility then discussion about safety targets are meaning less.