Rebecca Dresser | Plan B: Politics and Values at the FDA, Again
Dresser discusses the curious case of Plan B emergency contraception and the FDA, when the drug was denied over-the-counter status even though sufficient data had been presented in its support. She compares this to other cases in which political pressure likely held sway and concludes that, while it is impossible to expect value-based judgments from interfering with science policy decisions, we should at least expect these values to be disclosed.
-According to Dresser, we cannot banish values and politics from FDA decision-making, but we can insist that they
A) play a lesser role in the process.
B) play a larger role in the process.
C) be denied any role in the process.
D) be brought into the open.
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