Trump’s F.D.A. Pick Could Undo Decades of Drug Safeguards - The New York Times

"At an anti-aging conference in 2014, Mr. [Jim] O’Neill [one of several possible Trump nominees to head the FDA] advocated something he called “progressive” approval, in which drugs that were proved safe, but not yet proven effective, could be allowed on the market. “Let people start using them, at their own risk,” Mr. O’Neill said...."

PS: Is it (justified) paternalisn to require proof that a new drug is both safe and effective, rather than mere proof that it is safe? Is it (justified) paternalisn even to require proof that it is safe?