Comments on: YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/15/you-cant-handle-the-truth/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/15/you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comment-461516 Marc Brown Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:02:00 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/15/you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comment-461516 Sorry ECM, but you're not following this. The FDA is not banning anything. It is looking at whether such tests should be carried out in certified labs and it may be that complex tests for risk for disease such as cancer - which can be grossly misinterpreted by laypeople - should have physician involvement, as is already required under state law in California (and in New York I think). Note that in an allied topic - direct to consumer prescription drugs advertising, which is only allowed in New Zealand and the US - the evidence is of overall harm to public health. Sorry ECM, but you’re not following this. The FDA is not banning anything. It is looking at whether such tests should be carried out in certified labs and it may be that complex tests for risk for disease such as cancer – which can be grossly misinterpreted by laypeople – should have physician involvement, as is already required under state law in California (and in New York I think). Note that in an allied topic – direct to consumer prescription drugs advertising, which is only allowed in New Zealand and the US – the evidence is of overall harm to public health.

]]> By: ECM http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/15/you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comment-461505 ECM Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:39:34 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/15/you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comment-461505 OK marc, so do you agree or disagree that the FDA should be banning something like this? Just a simple yes or no will do, no need to twist yourself into a non sequitur machine in the process, just yes, I think the FDA *should* take control of this away from the people or no they should *not* because it isn't really any of their business. (As you're a closet fascist, I'm pretty sure you're going to go w/ the former, but I'm open to being shocked.) OK marc, so do you agree or disagree that the FDA should be banning something like this? Just a simple yes or no will do, no need to twist yourself into a non sequitur machine in the process, just yes, I think the FDA *should* take control of this away from the people or no they should *not* because it isn’t really any of their business.

(As you’re a closet fascist, I’m pretty sure you’re going to go w/ the former, but I’m open to being shocked.)

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/15/you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comment-461502 Marc Brown Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:50:30 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/15/you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comment-461502 If these tests told you the 'truth' you might have a point. But they don't. If these tests told you the ‘truth’ you might have a point. But they don’t.

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