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Thursday, March 1, 2018

JONATHAN EMORD TALKS ABOUT CORRUPTION WITHIN THE FDA

JONATHAN EMORD TALKS ABOUT CORRUPTION WITHIN THE FDA
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 What concerns me is that a significant minority… significant minority of drugs that have been approved by FDA have been approved over the FDA’s own medical reviewers’ objections on safety grounds. And the FDA’s whole system of drug review is bogus. It’s designed to protect and advance the interests of the drug industry. A lot of people don’t realize this but FDA never tests the drugs it approves. FDA does no independent testing at all. It relies entirely on the testing done by the drug advocate, the proponent of the drug application that has a self-interest and a conflict of interest. That party is looked to for all the drug testing. They do their own testing. There have been multiple instances of corruption in this process where false information or negative information has been kept away from the FDA so the FDA will approve the drug.