Asklemmy

48731 readers

749 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Is the FDA good or bad? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

When I see "the FDA has stated..." I automatically think it is probably a corrupt conclusion bought by some powerplayer to maximize their own profit instead of having to do with whether the statement is true or not. I've always viewed FDA as basically a council of a bunch of power players on boards of Big Capitalism companies like Pepsi that make decisions based on control and market share rather than health.

but I see posts now about how trump attacking FDA equals bad. So is my view of FDA wrong? Are they noncorrupt? Are they a necessary evil? Should they be thrown in a volcano and remade?

all 4 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is the FDA good or bad?

This is a false dichotomy.

Are they a necessary evil?

Framing things in moralistic terms just further obfuscates things.

The FDA is an enormous organization. It contains contradictions. It contains multitudes. Yes it is in a variety of ways compromised by the capitalist class, but that doesn’t mean the entire enterprise is without value. Black and white thinking isn’t going to cut it here.

Should they be thrown in a volcano and remade?

If you remade the FDA from scratch under capitalism, the result would be roughly the same, because the structures of political power would still be the same.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think you're confusing "false dichotomy" with "question". You could argue this if they were talking more in depth about the organisation. But that's not what's happening here

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A question framed as having a only two possible answers is a dichotomous question, and if the answer doesn’t fit that framing then the framing is false. It’s the wrong question to ask.