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The FDA does not have sufficient funds to police Big Pharma adequately. In fact, a significant amount of FDA funding comes from the drug industry in the form of fast tracked drug programs. Congress is the culprit.          

Food poisoning is relatively common in the US. The FDA does little to prevent this from happening because it suffers from both underfunding and conflicts of industry with Big Agra.        

Many medical clinical trials are funded with insufficient review. Just how ridiculous it can be is explored. When funding for research is limited as it is today, we must guide the expenditure of dollars as carefully as possible.

Medical research is purported to be based on randomized controlled trials. However, there is another approach that is called "outcome" research.        

  The rate of spending for health care has outstripped economic growth in almost every country for the past 15 years. There aren't obvious ways of controlling health care costs that seem realistic. Approaches that have been considered include Universal Health Care programs, cuts in health care services, increasing taxes, entrusting more services...

We make a lot assumptions based on superficial observations that have become accepted without scientific rigor. Policy by proclamation is not scientific. We must have funding from NIH for some of this research.

  The December 12, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article by two Johns Hopkins Medical Center staff stating that there is a crisis because medical research is becoming too expensive, big pharma will need to cut back on funding this research, and they anticipate cuts in federal research funding this next year. While...