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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:It's dramatically difficult for a drug to get FDA approval, so why are all these drugs have ridiculous amount of side effects?

Wouldn't the FDA say, "Nah, fuck all that?" and reject the medicine?
gpt
Nope.

The FDA just makes sure it wont be likely to hurt you. Side effects are going to happen in a certain percentage of users no matter what. The benefit just has to outweigh those.

If you had to have no side effects, then well no drugs would exist and wed all die a lot more often.

The FDAs job is more to ensure the drug does what it says it does and that all the side effects are properly studied and evaluated. Basically just making sure the drug companies aren't covering anything up or lying to you.