[TheForge] top of food chain ( was Re: (no subject) OT )

[Andrew Vida]

peter fels wrote:
> Between the misuse, competition, the liabilities and the cost of
> getting new antibiotics approved ( $900 million if successful or
> not); Drug companies have little motivation to develop new
> antibiotics to replace the ones that are taken out by cultured
> reistance.
> 
  Your information is way out of date.  As of 2005/2006 it was costing 
pharmaceutical companies something like 7 BILLION dollars to 
commercialize new drugs.  We studied this in depth in school and one of 
the big muckety mucks at Astra Zeneca came and spoke with us about it.

I am all for making sure people's dicks don't fall off when taking 
someone's pills, but the FDA is wildly out of control.  Half the drugs 
approved turn out to be more dangerous than the conditions they are 
ostensibly intended to treat, so why not streamline the process and get 
the costs down if human life is in fact that cheap?  This regulatory 
framework is ridiculous.  That we trust it is even more so.