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The people jumping on here to say "of course McKinsey didn't need to disclose, it should have been obvious because consultants always have these conflicts of in
by shkkmo 5y ago
The people jumping on here to say "of course McKinsey didn't need to disclose, it should have been obvious because consultants always have these conflicts of interest and don't disclose them." need to take a while to reevaluate their ethical guidelines.
Failing to disclose conflicts of interest (and the details of the exact steps yaken to mitigate those conflicts) is unethical. In this case, the contract requiring disclosure takes this beyond unethical and it becomes a breach of contract that indicates possible fraudulent or deceptive intent.
- pempem 5y agoThese are details that ProPublica was unable to get. That doesn't mean they weren't communicated, as spywaregorilla (sp?) has indicated above. Every law firm, accounting firm, consulting firm once it hits a certain size has clients which conflict, but the same employees - the same teams of employees - are barred from serving a conflict of interest. It is assured that: 1. the FDA asked 2. the FDA knew 3. the FDA agreed Its also probable that the person from the FDA working with the person from McKinsey had either already worked with them or been referred to them by a colleague that had worked with them.