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I have worked as a contract employee at both the FDA and the US Dept of Agriculture. Rule 1: Trust neither. The DofA wants you to eat dairy, meat, and grain p
by slowhand09 6y ago
I have worked as a contract employee at both the FDA and the US Dept of Agriculture. Rule 1: Trust neither. The DofA wants you to eat dairy, meat, and grain products - thats their area of expertise. The FDA ... want you to buy drugs. Thats their business. Neither is objective, and both use "science" that suits their needs.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoAnalyzing blinded experiments with control groups is at least a little bit of science. And it seems like I have access to more medicines and medical data than my grandparents did.
- slowhand09 6y agoYou may not remember VIOXX. I was working at FDA when this scandal broke. Politics and money got this drug approved. A whistleblower got it exposed. A workflow system I worked on there was had features designed to hide information from certain doctors/researchers.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoI can agree that corruption exists at the FDA (and every other organization). I don't agree that it has been completely useless or even had a net negative effect for the quality of life for most Americans. More transparency would be nice, more data from more frequent experiments would be nice. But the point is, they are using scientific principles (over the long term, I can't say for specific administrations).