I'll Fix Your Toxic Wagon, Episode 1: Gretchen DuBeau on our broken drug approval process

For as long as folks have been getting sick, which means throughout all of human history, there have been those who tried to develop and sell cures for diseases. That, of course, means that wherever you find disease, you find charlatans, looking to make a buck. To combat the sale of ineffective and sometimes dangerous ointments, elixirs, drugs and straight up quackery, the FDA was created and implemented guidelines for the safety and efficacy of claimed cures, which is a good and practical idea. But today, we have an environment where science is being ignored and even common-sense treatments are being blocked by that agency. In other words, we’ve got a toxic wagon.