Yeah, if aspirin had been invented today instead of a hundred years ago, it would never get the approval of the FDA. It is associated with some birth defects in rats. Yet it has never been shown to cause birth defects in humans. Nonetheless, it would never get that far in testing.
How sad. How many billions of headaches has aspirin cured in its career?
Yes, I know about Tylenol. Some people don't respond to it as well as they do aspirin. Most, in fact, I think. Also, aspirin brings down fevers much better than Tylenol does.
Unlike Tylenol, aspirin keeps down your inflammatory proteins when you feel yourself coming down with a cold, so you can escape the feeling that you have been run over by a truck.
Think how much misery aspirin has averted, that it never could have prevented if the FDA had been around a hundred years ago.
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