Context
A Scientific American article, Why the FDA rejected a ‘breakthrough’ melanoma drug, provides an excellent example of why distrust in anything even a little unusual from MAGA-corrupted federal agencies is warranted and rational. The facts are that the FDA has twice rejected marketing approval for an experimental drug for advanced melanoma drug. Data from clinical trials indicate that the drug, RP1, works very well. The FDA isn’t answering questions about why the drug is blocked. Outside experts are baffled as to (1) what is going on and why the FDA has shut down on this, and (2) what the implications for other drug approvals might be.
One expert commented: “There’s really no second-line treatments. This is a population that has been left behind. This is where I had hoped RP1 would come in.”
Another expert commented on the FDA’s baffling behavior: “This is all unexpected. It’s been a very disturbing situation…, just the shifting goalposts of FDA regulations and requirements.”
Related context is that Trump and MAGA elites have corrupted all or nearly all federal agencies. The primary goal is stripping average citizens, consumers and workers of their rights, protections and wealth while further empowering, increasing and protecting allied elites and their wealth and powers.
Two bases for rational distrust
Two highly plausible explanations for the FDA’s inexplicable behavior are (1) incompetence of the MAGA loyalists Trump put in charge, and (2) Trump’s pay-to-play politics that requires parties doing business with the federal government to bribe Trump to get service.
On the incompetence rationale, the MAGA idiots running the FDA changed regulatory requirements for marketing approval. At present, it’s impossible to get marketing approval for certain new drugs like RP1. That is because the new MAGA clinical trial requirement requires a treatment protocol that is highly unethical, making the clinical trial basically impossible to conduct. That puts the kibosh on drugs that fall in this stupid regulatory scheme. Link, link
At least equally likely is the increasingly popular “Trump is corrupt as hell rationale”. By now, Trump’s corruption and pay-to-play demands for money are well-documented. There’s no rational dispute about that any more. Of course, there’s plenty of irrational denials and disputes from morally rotted Trump and his MAGAland demagogues and liars.
The chronic liar-in-chief’s track record of lying
Pardon the crooks: A glaring example of Trump corruption is his criminal pardons for profit business. As discussed before, Trump pardons criminals like murderers, drug dealers and tax cheats in return for a bribe estimated at about $1 to $2 million per pardon. His pardons have shafted victims of pardoned criminals or the US Treasury to the tune of about $2 billion by his forgiveness of victim restitution payments and government fines. Trump’s contempt for the rule of law and his callous indifference to the suffering of crime victims are blatant and world-famous. Link, link, link
So, given his pay-to-play track record of governing, one can reasonably believe that unless the company trying to get RP1 approved by the FDA bribes Trump, their drug is never going to be approved. Melanoma patients will die and Trump will not care.
Q1: Absent unusually strong, transparent, and independent (not MAGA-corrupted) evidence, is it reasonable and rational to regard corruption with MAGA as the de facto gatekeeper for what used to be normal government functions like life‑and‑death regulatory decisions? Or, is MAGA incompetence the only factor at play here?
Q2: In view of the track record of Trump and his loyal and usually incompetent MAGA elite allies in power, is it reasonable and rational to distrust most or nearly all of what the federal government now tells us? If not, why not? What is the evidence of their honesty?
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