Scientists know mice are not little people but epidemiologists use animal models, very often at high doses, up to 10,000X realistic levels, to make their claims that everything causes cancer. Such abuse of animal models is why states like California, which abdicated science to IARC, has over 80,000 products with warnings about carcinogens yet no more or fewer cases of cancer.
FDA has long known that with plenty of actual human data and other methods, time spent analyzing animal results is wasted. All animals do in this century is feed anti-science trolls who want to sue corporations by claiming weedkillers, PFAS, and whatever else they can find are killing us.
In a somewhat surprising decision. FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H., announced that instead of pretending animal testing has human relevance, companies will be allowed to get FDA approval of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs with modern methods that will lower time and red tape, and lead to lower prices.
It's wonderful news for the public but look for activist sympathizers in media to rant about it and claim Republicans are approving dangerous drugs. These are the same journalists who suggested Parkinson's was about to be cured but waste and duplication and nonsense programs like taking surveys of people who don't like vaccines since 2021 are ruining science.
This is helping science. The only people it is harming are environmental lawyers and the epidemiology "expert witnesses" they pay to help them convince juries in anti-science enclaves like San Francisco that scientists are out to kill us.
NIH remains a problem with a Natural Resources Defense Council trial lawyer and avowed anti-science conspiracy theorist at the helm, but FDA is doing its more important work since Stephen Hahn, MD, fast-tracked the COVID-19 vaccines during the Trump administration that saved millions of lives.
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