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Donald Kennedy, PhD

JAMA. 1978;240(8):741.

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IN AN article in the May 12, 1978, issue of JAMA, William Wardell, MD, PhD, delivered a lengthy rebuttal to an earlier article of mine on the so-called "drug lag." Because both sides of the argument have been stated in fairly extended form, I am satisfied to leave to the fair-minded reader the judgment of those issues in which we genuinely differ.

I do, however, want to make a few points in an effort to limit the controversy to those areas in which real differences do exist. Dr Wardell begins his article with an extended series of quotations from articles, testimony, and other sources for the purpose of showing inconsistencies between my own stated views and those of my predecessors and colleagues at the Food and Drug Administration. These quotations and the speeches of mine that Dr Wardell cites should be compared carefully by anybody who thinks that there is really . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service Food and Drug Administration Rockville, Md

From the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Md.

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