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I'm marginally surprised that this was down voted. The director of the CDC is now the President of Merck Vaccines. That's hardly a trivial issue. The problem
by OpieCunningham 16y ago
I'm marginally surprised that this was down voted.
The director of the CDC is now the President of Merck Vaccines. That's hardly a trivial issue.
The problem with the topic of vaccination is that both sides are unreliable. On the one hand you have a severe lack of qualified study and a fairly disreputable unofficial spokes person (Jenny McCarthy) and on the other you have such an abundance of studies that it becomes extraordinarily difficult to determine whether or which of those studies have been compromised by corruption and industry (the director of the CDC becomes the President of one of a handful of major vaccine developers).
- ZachPruckowski 16y agoLook, I'm worried about regulatory capture and the iron triangle and all of that too, but people moving between the public and private sectors isn't in-and-of-itself proof of any misdeed. Look at this specific example - the jobs have basically identical requirements: "distinguished medical doctor specializing in infectious diseases with skills in administration and dealing with paper-pushers".
- OpieCunningham 16y agoThe indication alone is sufficient to question and doubt. Proof is only necessary for conviction. I'm quite sure the jobs have basically identical requirements. But the jobs also have dramatically different task masters (corporate profit vs. public good).