Psyche, Science, and Society

Another Big Pharma/Biotech shill appointed to top FDA post

March 17th, 2006

As the country prepares, or doesn’t, for the avian flu epidemic, Revere at Effect Size reminds us [FDA's little helper] that the Bush administration’s health policies are more about giveaways to crooks than about protecting the public health. He describes the Bioshield I and now II bills, that simply channel billions to incompetents to do things (like make 75 million doses of an anthrax vaccine) that we have no need for. With all the pressing public health needs that are completely unaddressed, these actions are simply criminal. Of course, they’d be criminal anyway. That’s probably why, as Revere points out, Joe (“I never met a worthless Bush policy I didn’t love”) Lieberman is such a fan.

No it turns out that one of the chief crooks, David Boyer, from the Pharma and biotech industry trade organization has been appointed the FDA’s Assistant Commissioner for Legislation. Heaven help us! The FDA certainly won’t.

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