2006 began with a burst of sanity from the Washington Post editorial page which concluded its January 2nd editorial with the following statement, “Scientific judgments about the risks and advantages of drugs are not black and white — which is why they are best made by scientists and by the regulatory agency that employs them, not by jurors through the lens of hindsight.”
In medias res!
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