https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-feds-limit-telehealth-prescriptions-drugs.html
Gee, I wonder if Ivermectin and HCQ will eventually be on the can-not-prescribe list for telehealth providers.
Yet another reason why REGULATION of ANY industry should be done by non-government groups -- think Underwriter Labs or National Fire Safety Foundation rather than the FDA or ATF.
I seriously think the mechanisms of (original) gov.agencies are built to keep them in check and banish those special interests. Yes, currently (at least 60 years!) agencies are taken over, and all checks eluded. Maybe, they must go, to get rid of that capture, but so far I believe we will need some societal bodies to discern snake oil from real ivermectin and let us know what is what. Do you think everyone can research everything on their own? Every invention, every discovery, every, hell, food recipe? Without bodies who can make their living with that research, we'll have all the snake oil salesmen / sinaloas and zero accountability.
I understand your viewpoint and used to have the same opinion myself. But the harm caused by coercively imposing the opinions of non-elected regulators (or even if they were elected) far outweighs any good it does, as we've seen vividly of late in regards the deadly COVID protocols, damaging lockdowns and other COVID theater, and the bioweapon "vaccines."
Back in the '80s, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, in Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach, argued that the FDA be limited to providing information so that people could make their own choices. NO COERCION. Freedom, in other words.
The FDA outlawed Stevia for years, starting soon after Monsanto came up with Aspartame -- without the FDA's action, aspartame would have had a very hard time taking over the non-sugar sweetener market because Stevia has been used by humans for centuries, is known to be very safe, and was already used in some zero-cal soft drinks and other products. FDA banned stevia so Monsanto could make $billions, not for any health concern.
That's one of the more benign stories about FDA action.
Problems of corruption and harm are seen in EVERY U.S. regulatory agency going back to the very first one in 1887.
From a 2009 investigative story about Obamacare:
[Moving into the present, and returning to the topic of Obamacare, Mitchell continues]:
On the lighter note tho...
One fantastic management book I read as a kid, was Peter's Principle. Kinda George Carlin thing—sleepy humans can swallow truth only in humorous form. Book postulated everyone strives to reach his/her level of incompetency and will be stuck there forever, as a punishment to whole humanity. Examples? Einstein was unable to reach known incompetency as a physicist, so he took up the violinist hobby, where he reached that level quickly. [Yes, Einstein thing is a separate rabbit hole.] Or a good kindergarten teacher--good because of his/her ways with kids--will inevitably be promoted to supervisor, where those ways are totally non-working, repulsive. And will be stuck there for the rest of the days.
Well, one of the conclusions was that actually, the most valuable thing we can get is «false lighthouse»: an entity SO incompetent it ALWAYS makes wrong choice/decision. So we can safely exclude those versions and just give it a new choice, until we have excluded enough wrong choices to decide, what to implement.
Guess what? We've reached near absolute total of false lighthouses: think of MSM, or CDC/FDA/FBI/…, or Obiden and his minions. The only remaining problem is, they have regulatory power.
Thanks for reminding me of The Peter Principle; like you, I read it a long time ago, and you're right: We've reached the point where shocking incompetence is everywhere. And you're also right that many of those people have power over others.
The older I get, the more I agree with Thoreau and JRR Tolkien: it is POWER, the unfettered use of coercion against other human beings, that is the great danger in the world. Wielding Power over others is hellishly addicting. Power brings out the worst in people. It is tailor made for corruption, and for vile behavior of every type.
Hello, fellow extremist! Remember, reading great/classic literature is nowadays a sure-fire sign of right-wing extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism :D
Meanwhile, listened to X22report. What you hear/see = what pushes your thought—depends on what you are mulling from a previous train of thought. So today, the 'loudest' thing was how DS tries to centralize everything and competing environment at some moment straightens out every harmful deviation. My master thesis theme was assigned as «Functions of the law of planned development [that is a crap in Marxist political economy, one of 5 fundamental principles] in the conditions of developed socialism» and first iteration was totally rejected, because I came to the conclusion that every single aspect was better fulfilled by market forces than central planning. Full round! :D
They assigned you a thesis topic about Marxist theory? And expected / required you to write about it as if Marxism was something other than a toxic siren song for tyranny?
Good for you for coming back at them with the truth, MrsCal. Brave, sane, intelligent, and truthful -- a very positive combination!
The Federal institutions are supposed to be watch dogs over industries. They were supposed to investigate and reveal malpractice of companies. This role was necessary and suitable for them until they were corrupted. The original intent and creation of these agencies isn't where the problem lies, it is the fact that they were corrupted. If you look at the origins of OSHA, the EPA, FCC, FDA etc...they all served a seriously needed purpose. The corruption looks to be unavoidable. I don't have an answer for the fixing of these agencies, but I don't think eradication is the answer. I believe the original intent and need is still valid, they just need the same thing the rest of the country needs, an enema.