Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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But everything would be "safe."

If everyone moved at the pace of the FDA we would still all be using vacuum tubes.

Yep, and we'd all be safe, too. No unknown or unanticipated health, social, or economic problems caused by digital technology would ever occur.

It was the severe birth-defect side effects of thalidomide that imposed lengthy, replicated, detailed pre-market drug testing rules. Thalidomide did not undergo such pre-clinical testing. Never again.

So, preclinical drug testing costing billions of dollars, over lengthy, multi-year periods.

Then, and now:

"What, a "transistor" or "circuit board?" That can't work. We're not going to allow any of that!"

Or...

"What, some molecule that putatively attaches to some unknown protein at the mitochondrial surface that's supposed to fix CNS diseases? That can't work. We're not going to allow any of that!"

Perspectives: looking backward to what's "known," or to the future in what's innovatively possible.

Foresight, or hindsight? The FDA sees things only in its rear-view mirror (which, for Alzheimer's, sees only an approaching truck full of amyloid plaques). The agency, by definition and function, is backward-looking.














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