test a million people. it s just not financially viable. so sometimes i m not suggesting that. this is all about statistics. you have 4,000 people and compared to placebo it works 70% of the time. placebo worked 30%. the fda may think that medication is good enough to bring to market. we re almost out of time. thomas, respond to that, too. i want to say, so just to go back to the idea of the insert, think about those inserts. that is like two-point type. it s extremely difficult to understand what s going on in that information. when you look at the ads where they have to disclose all these side effects and stuff, that s in such fine print. we do a very bad job. this stuff is not made clear right now. this was a fascinating conversation. really interesting debate. appreciate your time. thomas goetz joining us along with dr. jorge rodriguez. thank you. we should add here the makers of tylenol sent a statement, tylenol when taken as
wasn ter drugs, we hear a lot about them. after all this is the age of miracles and remedies and treatments are the best ever, right? not so fast. in this new book called the decision tree, author thomas goetz argues this idea of wonder drugs is a myth at best and dangerous at worst. take a look. thomas goetz is joining us from san francisco along with dr. jorge rodriguez to talk more about this. thomas, here is what i think jumped out at me. you write that a couple of everyday medicines may not even make it on the market today and they are aspirin, acetaminophen, otherwise known as tylenol and brand form for people. we all take those medicines. how can that be? it s really, they re a legacy of the way the drug of regulatory system has happened. the fda has very close oversight over new drugs now. when those drugs were developed the fda didn t really exist as it does now. so the fact they they are so
tea party s eventual demise. a puts it more succinctly from san francisco, fizzle, fizzle crash. if you want to read more on this go to my blog at cnn.com/cafferty file. wolf? we ll do it. see you tomorrow, jack. thank you very much. that s it for us. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. up next, campbell brown. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hi, there, everybody, our top story tonight, a suicidal man slams his plane into an irs building in austin, texas. that tops our mash-up tonight. a federal official saying they don t consider the incident an act of terrorism, but they do believe it was a very deliberate act of rage. this is pretty dramatic stuff here. we have a building on fire. this is in austin, texas. we ve got reports of a small plane into that building. he crashed the plane into lts second floor of the office building where 200 irs employees worked. federal officials told cnn the pilot of the plane set his house on fire and stole this aircraft from