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It turns out some common medications you used to treat the sniffles and other cold symptoms don't actually work because the experts got it wrong, for the millionth time.

The FDA’s advisory panel voted that oral phenylephrine, an active ingredient in common cold medications, is no better than a placebo for treating congestion. This sets up the potential for the removal of certain over-the-counter medications containing the ingredient from shelves. This includes formulations of Mucinex, Sudafed, Tylenol, and NyQuil.

You mean to tell me the same agency that approved oxycodone, and was wrong about its addiction potential, was also wrong about cold medicine? What a shocker!

The panel tossed out several studies that showed the drug was effective over issues with data integrity, sample sizes, methodological problems, and more. Newer data showed the ingredient “was not significantly different from placebo” in the recommended dosage, including trials from 2007 that the FDA had reviewed after a citizen petition prompted it to do so.

Although the panel claimed the drug may work with increased dosage, the advisors thought that may be just a bit too dangerous.

You mean to tell me that ‘the science’ was wrong when the FDA gave its approval? WOW! Who would have thought that the FDA could ever approve something that is useless?!

I thought we are supposed to trust the experts. Don’t they get everything right?

Well, actually they don’t. Nearly 4,500 drugs and devices are pulled from shelves each year due to FDA recalls.

It turns out the very agency that is charged with assuring the safety and efficacy of drugs gets things wrong a lot of the time.

But you should still get the new COVID booster because the same “expert FDA advisors” who can’t even get cold medicine right have given it emergency approval.

“Vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death,” said Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “The public can be assured that these updated vaccines have met the agency’s rigorous scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality. We very much encourage those who are eligible to consider getting vaccinated.”

A 2013 article for the special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, said that about 90 percent of all new drugs approved by the FDA over the past 30 years are little or no more effective for patients than existing drugs.

So the FDA is essentially useless.

Maybe it’s time to defund the FDA since they can’t even get cold medicine right.