Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What is the best drug regulation system?
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Regulating clinical trials

This position puts the weight of regulation before approval, on the design and conduct of trials, holding that a decision about whether a medicine works and is safe can only be as sound as the evidence gathered to support it.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. Every later safeguard inherits whatever the trial evidence got wrong
  2. Trial regulation is also what protects the people evidence is gathered from