The FDA was not legally bound to take this recommendation, right? It's an advisory committee. They can decide to take that advice or not. But it's basically what you're saying is it's the same set of facts. And then a couple of months later, they're like, whoops, it's safe. Nothing in the underlying information has actually changed. The only issue on which we are behind the times is Fenfen. That's the only one.
Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months. But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market. They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)
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