FDA regulator accused of using position to exact revenge on old business associate.
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FDA described as a “clown show” amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out
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Approve drugs for sale in the US? None. Evaluation for their jurisdiction? I'm sure they are well served.
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This is exactly what Republicans want. Break the government to the point the even if a full on Dem Congress and President can't fix shit as the SCOTUS will block everything and what can be done to fix this will have little impact in 4, or 8 years. Legit it will take 50-100 to undo what Project 2025 is doing. Congrats Republicans you won. Now enjoy your house burning down with you in it.
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Which would be fine if it was just them. The whole world is going to burn*
*full disclosure: it was going to burn anyway but is happening much faster now and the charred ashes of the "house of global civ" will have far fewer bits of foundation remaining than if we had not ever elected the felon.
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FDA and EMA are the two premier regulatory authorities in the world. They might not agree in some details but they are basically equivalent.
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It used to be that drug companies would get registered with the FDA first, and this would open doors to reciprocal registration in other areas. It can't be long before the delays in assessment leads them to choose register in Europe first and leave the US clown show to ride along without the benefits of drug advancement.
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The last 10 months of Trumpster Fires have produced a decade worth of blatant corruption on regular time scales. So...more than 9 days worth per week. Much, much more.There's so much dumbfuckery going on in the Trump administration that we may need a new way to tell time. It feels like they've managed to squeeze in 9 (nine) days of corruption in a calendar week's of time!
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That's like totaling someone's car and then going like "come on, you already had that small dent on your rear fender, your car has been trash for a while now"...
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That's generous... I'd have gone for: "a day ending in "y" in Trump's America"
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At this point all I want is competence. I don't care about change, or progress, or just about anything more than I care about competence. Really that is how far down we are.
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were equivalent not are, not any more.
Even the Indian and CHinese regulators are now better
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They probably fired the guy who could fire the inspector general, first by mistake.
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Well, on a European level, we have this: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/homepage
But every country in Europe, has it's own agency too.
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Sigh... I'll take one for the team and bite. You'll let me back into the tree house afterwards, okay?
Junk food, and obesity is a (cough) huge issue. If the nutjob in charge takes meaningful action and lasting action against junk food that would be a long overdue positive step for health. Very positive. Really good.
But the net balance of said nutjob's insane other beliefs vs junk food? I'd rather have obese friends that will die at 55 than the friends I didn't even meet because they died before I was in kindergarten.
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When recruiting the "Best", I did not think that they were referring to George Best's liver. Although it would be an upgrade.
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I’m reminded of past occurrences in several countries in Southern Africa. This is Africa for beginners.
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"Clown show." Well, duh, we are talking about Trump people here. It's to be expected that they'll behave just like him... or worse (if that's possible).
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Just a minor detail, but you forgot to provide any actual evidence to support your glorious carpetbagger's activities being beneficial. Do you also consume Flavor Aid by the barrel?
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Trump has made it clear that bribery is now OK, so obviously all his minions are going to follow suit.
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Well....the white house is, I think, short of pugs, indian agents and mexican bandits.
Other than that, however, it looks like the've got the full set.
Why am I envisioning this as Trump trying to pull that Hedley and then having a stroke and keeling over though?
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No, you see, that is an easy mistake. The photos from Haloween night will confirm that many of his supporters were dressed as Indians, Mexicans, and there were even a few in black face, I'm sure. Any pugs present are probably just incidental. Ever since they knocked that wall down the strays have just been wandering in and out as they please.
Either that, or Trump is going full balls to the walls in his pursuit of a Warhammer 40k-esque position as the God-Emperor of Humanity and has decided that he needs Battle Pugs, much like the Atreides in the glorious 1980's Dune movie adaptation.
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Maybe Tidmarsh doesn't realize his friends and ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H family probably need one or more of the drugs he decries.
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Measles doesn't make the statistic because of ... wait for it ... vaccines. Guess what your hero is trying to get rid of?
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Measles? You mean the disease that was almost declared eradicated in the USA thanks to childhood vaccination programs? That measles? Yeah, probably isn’t a significant cause of childhood mortality. But give RFK time and he can see about changing that.
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That already started a few years back in part bc FDA has been in slow burn decline for years. EMEA first (or MHRA first) has been slowly becoming the predominant thinking since…IDK…maybe 2017/2018…? (Definitely predating the pandemic by a few years, for certain.)
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Today — and it’s been this way for at least several now — it’s EMEA followed by MHRA (UK) followed by, if I recall the last presentation I saw on this correctly, the FDA — and that was just before the pandemic.
Notice, for instance, that in Europe and elsewhere (except some 3rd world countries) many chemicals the FDA allows in sunscreens and other cosmetics have been banned, in some case, for decades. FDA has long struggled to get approval to remove such chemicals because politicians get enough money from the chemical industry to put a kaibosh on such efforts in the US.
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...who killed nowhere near as many people as Trump's first-term COVID policies. it wouldn't even show up as a rounding error on that.
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The Aduhelm and Eteplersen approvals told industry insiders that there was something rotten in the
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