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Joy Lucette Garner's avatar

"Hey, FDA, we want to slaughter as many Americans as possible, and we want to get away with calling the injection safe."

FDA: "No problem. Give us a bunch of money and we'll back your drugs, lie to America, and make sure nobody gets in trouble - because we've approved of what you're doing."

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JudyC's avatar

And there you have the entire story in one simple post!

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MUNCHY's avatar

Thank you for your research and joining the dots. It does seem that a global brain is the aim. Well, at least there is a lot of global co-operation going on including the Moonshot project based in Japan which aims to have a quantum computer by 2050. One of their diagrams shows they are trying to mimic fungi energy saving techniques. They truly think they can act like God and integrate us with nature but all under their rules and using the IT that they control.

https://www.jst.go.jp/moonshot/en/program/goal6/index.html

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Most folks are walking away or running away from pharma, seems to me...

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Mathew Crawford's avatar

One effect of regulatory fees is to create a hurdle for market entry. Is this being extended on a global basis?

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Just call me Jack's avatar

Yes...fee is a barrier to entry - especially for non-patentable products.

Good question re regulator fees in other countries. A quick look at Australia's TGA and it appears their fee structure is more broken up, with more charges for different steps in the process (harder to track) ...though they don't appear to add up to the high FDA fee...which is interesting.

https://www.tga.gov.au/how-we-regulate/fees-and-payments/summary-fees-and-charges/summary-fees-and-charges-applications-submitted-tga

I strongly suspect that the lower fee in Australia is because we defer to the FDA and piggy back off of their assessments....no point repeating what the "gold standard" regulator has already done (assuming they've done their job thoroughly, which I'm sure they do). If this practice is repeated in other countries then it would further support the argument for a centralised global regulator - which appears to be where it is headed.

So this raises the question, if Australia has a lower barrier to entry fee, you'd think companies would enter here first before the US. Maybe the "reciprocal" rights only work one way. I don't know the answers, it would require more investigation...

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Jeannon Kralj's avatar

I've been studying and observing these quasi-federal and state agencies for years. This retiree is free at last.

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