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		ponker on Aug 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FDA issues emergency use authorization for convale... All the great American agencies like FDA, FAA, USPS have been tarnished by politicization.

Gibbon1 on Aug 23, 2020 [–]

Politics is also the reason why we have treatments that are known to work instead of snake oil like we used to have.

Rough quote from a 19th century doctor: The best thing to do for medicine would be to cut the page on opiates out of the Merck Manual and burn the rest.

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