[lit-ideas] Re: Drugs and the FDA
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:27:02 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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From: Robert Paul <Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Oct 10, 2004 4:26 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Drugs and the FDA
>And what my worry is is that, you know, it looks like it's from Canada, and it
might be from a third world.
>A.A. Bush weakened the FDA. Companies no longer have to prove their case the
way they used to. It's not even news anymore.
Actually, nothing is news anymore (which, a fortiori, isn't news). But the point
of my post was to show how Bush's metaphysical assumptions differ from Karl
Popper's.
A.A. [Imitating Bush] I know *that*. It's hard work distinguishing metafiscal
consumptions. (Okay, okay, unfair. Not that he cares much what's fair.) I
was picking up specifically about the FDA, another of Bush's hat tricks wherein
he grew government but decreased regulation.
Regarding news, I'm not sure I agree. It could be argued that "all news, all
the time" is tantamount to no news, since having to come up with something 24/7
reduces the pickings. But surely there's news. In addition to the same old,
same old, everything-old-is-new-again murders and so on, there's the
occasionally unprecedented stuff like Dolly the sheep, finding Saddam, and so
on. It's a little sad that the world is so jaded that there's so little that's
truly new. Hard to imagine that we've reached the end of the line.
For Erin, who said Mike's writing (handwriting, I assume) is "girlie", aren't
you making assumptions about how men and women should be, right down to proper
penmanship? I know women whose writing is illegible. Arnold calls men who
won't do what he wants "girlie men". What are your criteria for what men and
women should be like? Clearly you know what their writing should be like.
Andy Amago
Robert Paul
exercising sedentary demons near Lake Oswego
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