I thought investigative journalism was dead in America. I was wrong.
I found an article in Science from over 1 year ago that called out the FDA for wrongdoing. Maybe there is hope after all?
I admit I had thought all investigative journalism was dead in America. For example, I didn’t think any mainstream press would say a bad word about the FDA.
Well, I’m happy to admit that I was wrong.
Someone pointed me to this article in Science which appeared in October 2020, which slaps the FDA on the wrist for poor execution of their mission:
I’ve written the author, pointed to my Substack, and suggested that the topics I address might be interesting to a few of their readers.
I’ll let you know if I hear back.
I'm not sure this gives me any encouragement. There will be no follow up (I predict) and no consequences, but Science will be able to say, "FDA wrongdoing? Yeah, we covered that".
I am curious, how many of these trials resulted in FDA approvals (most of them!)? FDA has plenty of $ and mechanisms for enforcement, but like the IRS Nonprofit and Whistleblower Office, they are understaffed and underfunded on substantive work (Lois Lerner cleared out criminal investigators while directing withholding 501(3)(c) certifications to organizations that "sounded" like conservative other divisions harass and beat up on taxpayers grossing less than $50/y3qr.on the enforcement end. Under Obama,