So, Star Citizen then?
The Big Comfy Couch, a 90s/00s kids show.
Absolutely. We're gonna see more and more dumb, dangerous products hitting the shelves every couple of months. We're also going to see an ever-increasing number of products across all categories with fashy branding.
But like, seriously though.
It's insane that the FDA pulled all the coxibs for cardiovascular risk (not universally banned, but celecoxib is the only one still even available with prescription, and pretty much only for osteoarthritis) and then just left the rest of the earlier NSAIDs on the market despite them having the same cardiovascular risk!
Straight up, 200-400 mg of celecoxib is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events than the equivalent dosage of ibuprofen or aspirin and avoids the stomach issues associated with traditional NSAIDs. The risk is dosage related.
FDA doesn't give a shit, they just wanna ban mifepristone and get rid of vaccines.
That right there is an NSAID. Now let's talk about the NSAIDs. Can we talk about the NSAIDs, please chat? I've been dying to talk about the NSAIDs with you all day.
"COX-2 inhibitors," this name keeps coming up over and over again. Every day these prescriptions are getting sent back to me. Rofecoxib! Valdecoxib! I look in the mail, and this whole box is Celecoxib! So I say to myself, "I gotta find the FDA commissioner! I gotta go up to his office and put the peer-reviewed studies in the guy's goddamn hands! Otherwise, he's never going to get it and patients are going to keep coming back down here."
So I go up to the FDA office and what do I find out, chat? What do I find out?! There is no FDA approval for coxibs. The drugs do not exist, okay? So I decide, "Oh shit, buddy, I gotta dig a little deeper." There's no COX-2 inhibitors? You gotta be kidding me! I got boxes full of patient documents with stomach ulcers! All right. So I start marchin' my way down to the NLM in the NIH and I knock on her door and I say, "NLM! NLM! I gotta read more about coxibs." And when I open the door what do I find? There's not a single goddamn NSAID without cardiovascular risk! There. is. no. safe NSAID in HR. Chat, half the drug approvals in this country have been made up! The FDA is a goddamn ghost town!
South Dakotan isolationism, ensuring another century of irrelevance.
Don't worry, it's gonna happen! (Exclusively in areas that will be uninsurable in fewer than 10 years.)
Soda bad, drink water.
I really don't think that's the take you'd come away with after actually watching the show.
It's not doing the Game of Thrones thing at all.
It's one of my favourite shows and it holds up incredibly well, absolutely worth a rewatch.