A drug regulator’s job is to ensure that only new products with a balance of safety and effectiveness appropriate to the disease they’re intended to treat, reach the market. We’ll come back to how they’ve performed, a bit later.

The role of medical journals is to provide a forum for the robust debate of competing hypotheses that the entire scientific enterprise depends on, while also ensuring quality control through the process of stringent review of emerging findings by appropriately-qualified peers. How have they done?

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Australia’s drug regulator is leading the race to the bottom (substack.com)