Postrel: Bad News for Medical Progress

Virginia Postrel says

It's the worst regulatory news I've heard in a long time–and it predates the new administration by a half year. Sidney Wolfe, who seemingly never met a new drug or device he thought should be legal, has been named to four-year term on the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee. He's got the "consumer" slot. Well, I'm a big-time pharmaceutical consumer, and this man does not speak for me.
His philosophy: "If there were any question, they would take the drug off the market."

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Postrel also posts a nice admiration of a Freeman Dyson lecture (availabe via pdf download about the history of mathematics.