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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy
Now you're just wanting to argue. A quick Google search shows, "In the United States, it takes an average of 12 years for an experimental drug to travel from the laboratory to your medicine cabinet."
12 years, Peter. 12 years.
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Yes but most of that time is not the placebo-controlled phase III trial, it's research and development and feasibility studies and animal studies and so forth, none of which gather the data you crave.
Go tell me how much safety data there was on fen-phen when they approved it. Only to find out it killed people.