Snake Oil
Maintenance Phase
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Medicine Show
The last major medicine show shuts down in the early 19 sixties. The food drug and cosmetic act of 19 38 required manufacturers to list all active ingredients, make only supportable claims,. refrain from creating medicines for life threatening illnesses; reveal all relevant facts. This is how we got the fda. It's like a superhero origin story. This is the bitten by a radioactive s of regulatory agencies.
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