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The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work (jacobin.com)
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Over the last several decades, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed pharma companies to sell hundreds of drugs to patients without adequate evidence that they work and, in many cases, with clear signs that they pose a risk of serious harm.

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[–] BitterChocolate@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Since "evidence based medicine" has been a corrupt joke for many decades now, why be surprised now? As long as people continue to claim that real science - which assumes and even demands skepticism and testing and trial and even disagreement as a never-ending process that works for real results and continued improvement - is somehow "anti-science", there is no limit to how whacked "medication" or "treatment" can be or become.