[ExI] FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe to Halt DNA Test Service

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 18:18:59 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The provided justification is that, absent these proofs, collective costs to
> said consumers would be far higher, since each consumer would independently
> have to verify what's accurate - and, more often, suffer when their own
> research fell short.
>
> This was easy to demonstrate when the FDA was founded, across all things the
> FDA had jurisdiction over.

### It never needs to be demonstrated, since it is not relevant. Your
basic assumption is wrong: In fact, consumers don't have to
independently verify what's accurate.

The FDA is neither capable nor willing to perform the cost-benefit
analyses that are the key to efficient regulation of anything, and
this is why the FDA imposes hundred billion dollar costs on us for
trivial benefits. However, there are some forms of markets that are
capable of performing these cost-benefit analyses, including
insurance, accreditation organizations, consumer groups, professional
associations and others.

There are more efficient ways to assess quality of medical care than a
government bureaucracy. Therefore the FDA should not exist. QED.
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> It is if you use your resources in a way that is destructive to other
> people, such as by crippling yourself then demanding the rest of us make
> accommodations to let you continue living normally.  Most people who do
> this, do the self-crippling part involuntarily (such as by acting on bad
> information).

### Are you asking if I am a leech?

I am not a leech.

Rafal



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