Kinda feels like he’s angling to reduce FDA oversight with this one?
Wonder why?
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whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 3 hours ago
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m sorry, you have misunderstood his words, he doesn’t want better drugs or safer drugs, he wants more drugs approved, fewer hurdles to sell his buddies snake oil
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
This is the point everyone misses. Hes not asking for more medical research to be done, hes asking for the standards for approval to be lowered or eliminated.
stumu415@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Besides drug approval, which is not a measurement in itself, I can attest to this. A large German pharma, has increased their head count from 7 to 40 within a year. They bought a local pharma for 1 billion US dollar and at the same time closed a US facility. The same goes for many other pharmas. You can say what you want about China, but they are investing heavily in science. Because they believe in science. Unlike the current regime of the US.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Canada is hiring American doctors left right and center.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
No, we are not. Canadian healthcare is provincial and underfunded by Conservative governments. Also, US medical licenses aren’t worth shit in Canada.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
I still don’t really trust China, it’s more reliable than the US regime (minus Democratic areas) rn, but still, that’s a low bar.
Elting@piefed.social 21 hours ago
I’m sure they will carry on the world hegemon tradition of being generally contemptible.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Eh, ymmv. Did you they defunded BioNTech? The developers of what is now the Pfizer Covid vaccine? Covid vaccine research is desperately needed (see vaccine injury) but there is no funding.
Many EU countries are defunding science. Being a researcher is an absolute nightmare. Brussels is receiving tons more applications for funding because researchers aren’t getting money from their own government anymore. University departments are being shut down.
People who have been doing scientific and medical research for decades are finding themselves on the streets.
stumu415@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
BioNTech is definitely not defunded in China. Besides BioNTech, there are more local pharmas working on mRNA. BioNTech have a license / working agreement with BMS worth 2 billion dollars mainly for a mRNA cancer vaccine. Mostly handled in China - again. Because in the US as a scientist you’ll be defunded if you use the word mRNA in your documentation.
It is generally fucking nuts to block what could be one of the major cancer treatments of the near future.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
The last thing I heard about Biontech is that the guys founding the company got crazy rich, figures out they don’t like being CEOs of a large company, and founded another small research lab with their money.
Besides, it is a private company, sure, they got government grants and funding especially during Corona, but I don’t think we should give random companies fucktons of tax money in normal circumstances. At least not while we’re doing the whole market economy capitalism thing.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s so fun looking for work now after a career in vaccine and cancer therapy development.
Chakravanti@monero.town 18 hours ago
Ooohh…damn…oh…uh…damn…snap.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Break everything.
Blame others to get elected.
Break everything.
Blame others to get elected.
Break everything.
Blame others to get elected.
Break everything.
Blame others ot get elected.
The Republican way.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
These people have the self awareness of a rock.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
When are you going to realise they are completely self aware, completely disingenuous, and speak to gain power or achieve objectives rather than make a coherent point.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 47 minutes ago
For the record, I fully do not believe that RFK Jr. is remotely self-aware, nor is Trump. There absolutely are self-aware individuals in the administration who are as you describe, but I do not believe those two are among them.
zbyte64@awful.systems 8 hours ago
They also believe a rock can think like a human so…
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 7 hours ago
Even trillions of dollars has yet to make the rocks actually think yet.
Generica@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 10 hours ago
I FIRED all our Scientists and DEFUNDED all our Research because I THOUGHT it would IMPROVE our Research Capabilities!
-NOT DEI hires!
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 minutes ago
Everyone in the administration is a DEI hire. Drunken Entitled Idiots.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
glibg@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
He looks like he sleeps in a tanning bed.
kablez@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
That’s so unexpected and weird, did the severed dead raccoon penis not help at all??
Canajan@piefed.ca 20 hours ago
Was about to make a similar comment lol, you beat me to it. So wild, who in there right mind would say to themselves “I’m gonna cut off that dead raccoons penis for research, ya research “
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s so so much better when you see the full quote. He thought he was the normal one in his family lol. Keep in mind this is his own words from his diary.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be."
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The brain worm may have shifted, thus allowing neurons to connect again.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
LOL. This cunt shut down the NIH and now laments the lack of new drugs, coming from scientists forced by the US to move to China.
The raccoon penis isn’t working, Bob.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
China: Eats lunch
RFK Jr.: “THAT’S MINE!”
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
So he’s definitely a problem, but regardless of him China really do be faster at this right now.
fizzle@quokk.au 11 hours ago
Oh man. The US has lost its edge in everything. Its a real shit show.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Excuse me? We’re still the best at mounting flags in the backs of pickup trucks.
fizzle@quokk.au 1 hour ago
Well ackshually…
Here in Australia our servos (seppo: gas stations) sell this little plastic flags that clip on to your window or door frame. Dickheads can easily self identify by attaching two of these to their fucktard conveyance machine.
I’m sorry to tell you that toxic patriotism technologies have progressed beyond flags in the backs of pickup trucks.
wewbull@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
You don’t need much from a government, but it doesn’t work with a bunch of thieving criminals.
PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This dude thinks aspirin causes autism but then complains we’re not approving enough drugs. That tapeworm really did a number on this guy.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
Axchually he said it’s acetaminophen what somehow causes autism
Chakravanti@monero.town 18 hours ago
Guess where Arrakis Sandworms anscstors came from.
Should rather link to their shitty dope too.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
If only our government encouraged drug research and funded studies and trials. Oh wait, we did that, and RFK, Jr cancelled them all.
Its all the Dems fault! They screwed us AGAIN!
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 16 hours ago
“I want to take this opportunity to encourage our scientists to invest more research into the fascinating field of Raccoon penis. I’ll gladly share my findings.”
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
I hear they are pumping more money into roadkill extract for curing autism.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Raccoonpenitol. Ask your doctor if it is right for youl
arc99@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
This cunt is a child killer. Not through negligence, but deliberately and intentionally.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
I think you can call him a mass murderer at this rate.
China isn’t perfect, but they got some good ideas.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Sheesh, these Godless commies, judicially executing someone for corruption? In Maga America they extra judicially execute you for being brown/at a protest as god intended.
Soulg@ani.social 7 hours ago
Still do not support execution but the idea of there being consequences is still nice
percent@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
🤔 I wonder what they did to the people who offered the bribes
Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
God I hope China actually does create a virus to wipe out the antivax dumbasses.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I think covid might have put a pin in anyone planning to try to take the world using a virus. Two main problems:
- Once the virus is out in the wild, it is out of anyone’s control. It will evolve in whatever direction it will. Maybe it will escape the vaccines developed to keep their side alive. Maybe it will just become less deadly before it kills off enough people to collapse the enemy’s base.
- It looks like our immune systems are pretty good actually and those who get sick might just be the tip of the iceberg while most of the population gets immunity from asymptomatic infection.
These two items work against each other. If you try to make a virus that will infect the entire herd, it might be more likely to also be able to attack you regardless of what vaccines you have. If you try to make a virus that won’t be able to escape your vaccine’s immunity, then the herd might just develop immunity themselves and the virus dies out after only killing a small portion of the population.
So given that, I don’t think a weaponized virus is an effective tool to eliminate enemies with because it’s both too risky and too unreliable.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I know multiple people who had kids and they didnt get then any vaccines (religion).
I’m wary of even being around those kids.
trigital_cowboy@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
They would never do anything like that twice.
Soup@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Is he not directly responsible for defunding a lot of the research and programs that would have helped here? Weird that Captain All-Natural cares about having less drugs than China.
Ooops@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Yes, but that’s entirely missing the point here.
Drug research and development takes decades until final approval. If there is a decrease in the US (or an increase in China), you need to look for cuts (or additional investments) in the early 2000s.
The damage this idiot has done will not be visible for quite some time…
Soup@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Again though, he cut programs that were in motion so as far as we know stuff could have been decently close and is gone now. Also important is the fact that he’s literally a guy who constantly talks and act like prescription drugs are evil and yet is using China having more of them as a good thing for them and a bad thing for his country.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
They cut off funding for projects at all levels of completion. Who knows how much recent shit they killed
trolololol@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
- panik : they got more drugs approved
- kalm : we don’t believe in medicine or drugs, we’re antivaxxx
- naturopathy - raw milk can cure cancer and any other disease known to man
- tankie : their vaccines cause aids
- tankie 2 : the drugs are approved but they don’t exist
- murican exceptionalism : our drugs are bigger, better, more expensive and cause more dependency
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The regime cannot fail, it can only be failed. Those scientists were supposed to do their job of finding evidence for whatever possibly non-metaphorical bug RFK Jr has up his ass on a given day. 🙄
Maiq@piefed.social 1 day ago
Cancer mad it’s killing the host.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 19 hours ago
It’s so weird watching the cognitively impaired elderly because they say 98% random left field nonsense and then the fucking 2% profound revelation statements.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
fullsquare@awful.systems 17 hours ago
that’s a weird metric to look at because drug approval happens only like, 5-15 years after end of preclinical research, sometimes longer
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It is indeed not the current administration that led to this.
It certainly won’t help but that is not the cause, neither is the 2008 one.
China has been advancing in plenty fields for a few decades now.
They have already caught up or surpassed others in plenty fields.
Americans are clinging to their USA nr 1 mantra, but that’s delusional.
They refuse to accept to the fact they already have been beaten and there is nothing they can do about it.
Despite banning and sanctions China has a massive lead in nearly all crucial tech fields.
The gap will only become bigger.Gathorall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The funniest thing is that all the while China is the largest predictor of USA by far, and USA has had foreign investment pouring in overall all those decades.
USA had the money not just to maintain but rapidly advance, and a head start. To bite the dust in this situation is some serious incompetence.
Evotech@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The lines must go up metric
Zorque@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
That’s what happens when you let everyone know you’re not going to eat your lunch, someone else is going to eat it.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
TOPXI
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 15 hours ago
Soon a new trump tweet:
FAKE NEWS MEDIA won’t tell you this, but GREAT American Scientists just CRUSHED the number of DEADLY DRUGS pouring into OUR Country – DOWN BIG LEAGUE! China, you POISONOUS SCUMBAGS, STOP making your NEW KILLER DRUGS and MURDERING our Precious CHILDREN! We’re WINNING like NEVER BEFORE! MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN! 🇺🇸
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
As one of the people who lost their job, doing important & worthwhile work, directly due to the funding cuts of this current administration, I only have a few words: FUCK YOU okay that’s two. So, let’s add PEDOPHILES to the end. FUCK YOU PEDOPHILES.
Crystalbound@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
As the wise Ricky would tell them - Fuck, pretty easy to understand. Off, real easy to understand. Fuck off!
lime@feddit.nu 2 hours ago
two technically counts as “a few”, but i’ll allow the addition