On Fri, 25 May 2012 07:30:50 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

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*The FDA withdrew their recommendation.*

I wonder why they did that?

Simple. They changed their opinion based on new
data.

No, they didn't. They changed it only when forced to by the FDA.

"The results I found in the Amgen report, filed with the FDA in 1996,
showed that bigger epoetin doses to target higher hematocrit did not
improve the physical function quality of life component at all, and
had significantly increased the risk of death, heart attack, other
thrombotic events, and hospitalizations."

Which is why you can't go by PR releases, you have to actually read
the studies themselves.

AMGEN knew this all along.

You should be thanking this doctor, and here you are impugning his
efforts to save lives.

You're a real piece of work, asshole.

More vulgarity which is to be expected from someone
who's getting demolished here right and left an can't
argue the facts.

My language is appropriate for the assholes who call others "loons"
and "morons."

Yes, it is criminal, unless you think "improvement in quality of life"
is just another way to say "deaths" and "heart attacks."


Another example of faulty logic.

It's exactly what they tried to get away with.

Sure, based on new data. Now if the FDA is really
evil as you claim, why would they change their opinion
at all?

The FDA was as much duped as evil here.


--
Dogman

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty
about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything" - Richard Feynman