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The FDA’s Perpetual Process Machine
Nobelist Paul Romer details many of the ways that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policies hampered the response to the coronavirus. This sampling belies the claim that FDA regulations save lives. It might be time to review the massive damage that the FDA is doing by restricting the supply and use of tests for…
A Citrus “Pandemic”
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