I’d like to see an epic post that collects high-quality examples of COVID incompetency on the part of the US government, the FDA, the CDC, the WHO, bioethics, etc. Zvi’s posts contain many examples but they are spread out over multiple posts and not fact-checked.
It would be really valuable to have a post that collects all this stuff in one place, and curates only the really compelling examples, and puts in all the proper citations and footnotes and explanatory arguments. I would link to it all the time, because it’s important evidence about the general competence of our civilization, and our government in particular. EDIT: The post should also steelman the institution’s decisions.
The culture of the FDA didn’t spring into being this year, of course. This book covers their failures to regulate foreign manufacturing of generic drugs and it substantially dented my previous belief that generic versions of drugs are equal to the branded. The book is, however, about twice as long as it should be and you may prefer this podcast with the author.
I’d like to see an epic post that collects high-quality examples of COVID incompetency on the part of the US government, the FDA, the CDC, the WHO, bioethics, etc. Zvi’s posts contain many examples but they are spread out over multiple posts and not fact-checked.
It would be really valuable to have a post that collects all this stuff in one place, and curates only the really compelling examples, and puts in all the proper citations and footnotes and explanatory arguments. I would link to it all the time, because it’s important evidence about the general competence of our civilization, and our government in particular. EDIT: The post should also steelman the institution’s decisions.
To “fact-checked” and “compelling examples” etc, I would add the request that it would actually try to steelman these institutions’ actions.
Yes, agreed.
The culture of the FDA didn’t spring into being this year, of course. This book covers their failures to regulate foreign manufacturing of generic drugs and it substantially dented my previous belief that generic versions of drugs are equal to the branded. The book is, however, about twice as long as it should be and you may prefer this podcast with the author.
Before writing the book Katherine Eban wrote an article for CNN Money on Ranbaxy: http://www.sacw.net/article4564.html
(The fact that CNN doesn’t host the article anymore it’s worth noting; it seems someone got them to take it down)