> If "used to be" counts, then the bare minimum is whatever it takes to get someone to pay for it, like in the literal snake oil days.

I’m advocating for higher standards, not lower. With regards to the COVID vaccine, we’ve decreased the quality and quantity of research performed over what we’ve done for previous vaccines.

It sounds like you’re saying that the research on these vaccines is better than before. Which is confusing because they have not obtained FDA Approval. If they had been tested to the same rigor as other vaccines, they would have received this Approval.

> implying that it can never make sense for the FDA to change how they do things.

Again, that’s not what I’m implying. I’m implying that we should change how they do things in only one direction- more safe. Long term research and vigorous testing.

Not rushed testing who’s new rules are dictated by industry-captured regulators.