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Today's Fun Fact:
Aspirin would never have made it to the market if it was required to get today's FDA's approval.

I highly recommend Mary Ruwart's book Healing Our World (1993 version available for free online). The book takes a very critical look at the actual results of our attempts to make the world a better place.

Unfortunately, this story is not unique. Aspirin deforms the unborn young of almost every animal species but humans (31) and could not be marketed today if it had to go through FDA evaluations as a new drug! Penicillin, digitalis, and fluroxene might have met a similar fate, (32) costing thousands upon thousands of lives. Many more lives have probably been lost by the aggression of licensing laws than have been saved.

References 31 and 32 on her website.