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>Medicine is like car parts

Creating medicines is nothing like creating car parts. At all. There's not a single aspect of drug discovery, manufacturing, or distribution logistics that in any way resembles something as crude as producing unregulated widgets for automobiles.

You're simply highlighting how poorly you understand the pharmaceutical industry with this line of argumentation.

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I mean only to say that they are both products, and that they may both result in injury or death if they are produced irresponsibly.

Would you not agree with those two points of comparison?

I think it's an inane and inept comparison. The manner in which defects arise in each type of product, and the manner in which failure modes manifest are so different as to be incomparable.

I don't see how you can contest that they're both products and that they can both kill people if they're defective. To me these two similarities are plainly true, and it is only these two similarities that are material to my argument.

I might misunderstand, but the direction your argument seems to be heading is that the free market is somehow incompatible with products that have complex failure modes or that can be defective in subtle ways, and that the FDA is thus necessary. Is that right?

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