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Subject: NYT: FDA "lacks talent"
Date: Feb 3, 2008 12:48 AM
Wrong (NYT article below).
The FDA employees lack the initiative to be public servants.
Here is a disclaimer from them, where they disclaim their job
responsibility:
http://www.actionlyme.org/FDA_DISCLAIMS_JOB_RESPONSIBILITY.htm
I asked them why they never looked at the validity for the testing for
Lyme disease,
such that they would know whether CDC's bogus Dearborn method was
bogus and
would falsely qualify LYMErix, by throwing out all the vaccine failure
data as "unconfirmed
Lyme?" They referred me to their disclaimer where they don't have to
actually
LOOK at any data BigPharma sends them.
The FDA is like any other retarded, greedy, incompetent dot guv agency
or department:
IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM and how they can further personally plunder the
dot guv
dole.
As another example, why are we still paying NIH's Edward McSweegan's
salary,
when all he does is full-time trash and harass Lyme victims?
Particularly the Lyme victims who demonstrated to the FDA that LYMErix
was bogus
in their own (self-alleged) terms?
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/AC/01/slides/3680s2_11.pdf
Why are we still paying McSweegan's salary when he clearly came up
with the
dumbest medical idea on earth? A vaccine for relapsing fever?
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/080129.htm
And spent his entire career trashing sick people or his employers as a
means of
self-promotion?
http://www.actionlyme.org/McSweegan.htm
I tell the headhunters that the only entity I am qualified to work for
is the FDA,
but that they surely would not have me, since I would obviously do my
job and trash
the trash "drugs." We know for sure the FDA is a political entity who
play fairy-ass games like trash Trovan, because they had just given us
Viagra, and
they thought two blockbusters in a row was too much to give Pfizer.
They're selfish fairies who do not care about the public, and think,
like any
other dot guv staff, that we, the public, are morons and don't deserve
their
time. To a large extent that's true, but the dot guvvers have an
obligation
to set an example and should not mimic the sleazy corporate low-lives.
Nowhere has this been more disastrous than what we have as an excuse
for the USDOJ.
The bottom line is that the FDA is corrupt, lazy, stupid and selfish,
but they even
trash their own whistleblowers, like David Graham.
Like any other low-life dot guv entity who has been exposed as being
incompetent,
they always claim, "Oh, Our job is so tuff, We need more money and
more staff
(so even more of us can feed off the dot guv pork fest and freebies.
So please
hire my brother and my cousin and my wife and her brother....)."
The FDA is like cops. Stupid, greedy, and when they get caught being
corrupt and
incompetent, say they're overworked and underpaid.
We wonder, why is it that we hear about that *after* all the
fiascoes?
Answer: They reason they're so stupid is because they're so arrogant
and
greedy, and have a sense of entitlement, while also trashing people on
welfare entitlements.
At least the people on some sort of welfare don't have access to all
the insider
goodies and they're not given responsibility to be ***defenders of the
public
welfare,*** earning 100 times as much for being incompetent,
hypocritical, whores
for 20 years.
This nation fell apart because of the sick cult(ure) of, "IT's ALL
ABOUT
MEEEEeeeee!!!" Created and maintained by the psychiatric whores who
invented
it, and who, at the same time, wouldn't know a neurotransmitter from a
WAN card.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/opinion/03sun1.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
The New York Times
February 3, 2008
Editorial
The F.D.A. in Crisis: It Needs More Money and Talent
The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be Americans' main
line of defense
against tainted food, drugs, medical devices and other products -- in a
world abounding
with tainted goods. So it was especially chilling last week to hear
the agency's
former chief counsel, Peter Barton Hutt, tell a Congressional panel
that the F.D.A.
was "barely hanging on by its fingertips."
That warning was supported by several equally grim authoritative
reports and other
expert testimony that made clear that the agency does not have enough
money or enough
skilled scientists to do its job.
In a hearing before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, members
of the agency's
own scientific advisory board outlined the F.D.A.'s many weaknesses.
It lacks scientists
who understand rapidly emerging technologies -- including genomics and
nanotechnology
-- relevant to product safety. The agency is further hobbled by a high
turnover rate
of scientists, a decrepit information technology system, a weak
organizational structure,
and a shrinking inspection force.
The Government Accountability Office, meanwhile, warns that at a time
when imports
are pouring in from all over the globe, the agency does not have
enough staff or
adequate computer systems to conduct timely inspections of foreign
plants that make
drugs, medical devices and food products. That is especially worrisome
in China,
the source of so many dangerous goods. At its current pace, the agency
would take
13 years to inspect every foreign drug plant exporting to the United
States, 27
years to check every foreign medical device plant and 1,900 years to
inspect every
foreign food plant.
The reason for the agency's woes is simple. Congress has repeatedly
piled new burdens
on the F.D.A. -- more than 100 statutes have added new responsibilities
over the
past 20 years -- without providing enough money and personnel to carry
out the tasks.
To make things worse, the increasing complexity of modern medical
products and the
flood of food and drug ingredients from abroad have overwhelmed the
agency's ability
to keep up.
User fees from industry have helped the F.D.A. review applications to
market new
drugs and medical devices in this country, but the agency's underlying
scientific
core is eroding. The two units that regulate food are in "a state of
crisis," according
to the science board, and dietary supplements and cosmetics get short
shrift.
The near unanimity about the agency's weaknesses -- among Congressional
Democrats
and Republicans, industry and consumer groups, and authoritative
independent analysts
-- is striking. But hand wringing is not enough. The F.D.A. desperately
needs an
infusion of money and talent. To make up for decades of neglect, Mr.
Hutt proposes
that its appropriation be doubled and its staff increased by 50
percent over the
next two years.
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Subject: NYT: FDA "lacks talent"
Date: Feb 3, 2008 12:48 AM
Wrong (NYT article below).
The FDA employees lack the initiative to be public servants.
Here is a disclaimer from them, where they disclaim their job
responsibility:
http://www.actionlyme.org/FDA_DISCLAIMS_JOB_RESPONSIBILITY.htm
I asked them why they never looked at the validity for the testing for
Lyme disease,
such that they would know whether CDC's bogus Dearborn method was
bogus and
would falsely qualify LYMErix, by throwing out all the vaccine failure
data as "unconfirmed
Lyme?" They referred me to their disclaimer where they don't have to
actually
LOOK at any data BigPharma sends them.
The FDA is like any other retarded, greedy, incompetent dot guv agency
or department:
IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM and how they can further personally plunder the
dot guv
dole.
As another example, why are we still paying NIH's Edward McSweegan's
salary,
when all he does is full-time trash and harass Lyme victims?
Particularly the Lyme victims who demonstrated to the FDA that LYMErix
was bogus
in their own (self-alleged) terms?
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/AC/01/slides/3680s2_11.pdf
Why are we still paying McSweegan's salary when he clearly came up
with the
dumbest medical idea on earth? A vaccine for relapsing fever?
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/080129.htm
And spent his entire career trashing sick people or his employers as a
means of
self-promotion?
http://www.actionlyme.org/McSweegan.htm
I tell the headhunters that the only entity I am qualified to work for
is the FDA,
but that they surely would not have me, since I would obviously do my
job and trash
the trash "drugs." We know for sure the FDA is a political entity who
play fairy-ass games like trash Trovan, because they had just given us
Viagra, and
they thought two blockbusters in a row was too much to give Pfizer.
They're selfish fairies who do not care about the public, and think,
like any
other dot guv staff, that we, the public, are morons and don't deserve
their
time. To a large extent that's true, but the dot guvvers have an
obligation
to set an example and should not mimic the sleazy corporate low-lives.
Nowhere has this been more disastrous than what we have as an excuse
for the USDOJ.
The bottom line is that the FDA is corrupt, lazy, stupid and selfish,
but they even
trash their own whistleblowers, like David Graham.
Like any other low-life dot guv entity who has been exposed as being
incompetent,
they always claim, "Oh, Our job is so tuff, We need more money and
more staff
(so even more of us can feed off the dot guv pork fest and freebies.
So please
hire my brother and my cousin and my wife and her brother....)."
The FDA is like cops. Stupid, greedy, and when they get caught being
corrupt and
incompetent, say they're overworked and underpaid.
We wonder, why is it that we hear about that *after* all the
fiascoes?
Answer: They reason they're so stupid is because they're so arrogant
and
greedy, and have a sense of entitlement, while also trashing people on
welfare entitlements.
At least the people on some sort of welfare don't have access to all
the insider
goodies and they're not given responsibility to be ***defenders of the
public
welfare,*** earning 100 times as much for being incompetent,
hypocritical, whores
for 20 years.
This nation fell apart because of the sick cult(ure) of, "IT's ALL
ABOUT
MEEEEeeeee!!!" Created and maintained by the psychiatric whores who
invented
it, and who, at the same time, wouldn't know a neurotransmitter from a
WAN card.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/opinion/03sun1.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
The New York Times
February 3, 2008
Editorial
The F.D.A. in Crisis: It Needs More Money and Talent
The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be Americans' main
line of defense
against tainted food, drugs, medical devices and other products -- in a
world abounding
with tainted goods. So it was especially chilling last week to hear
the agency's
former chief counsel, Peter Barton Hutt, tell a Congressional panel
that the F.D.A.
was "barely hanging on by its fingertips."
That warning was supported by several equally grim authoritative
reports and other
expert testimony that made clear that the agency does not have enough
money or enough
skilled scientists to do its job.
In a hearing before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, members
of the agency's
own scientific advisory board outlined the F.D.A.'s many weaknesses.
It lacks scientists
who understand rapidly emerging technologies -- including genomics and
nanotechnology
-- relevant to product safety. The agency is further hobbled by a high
turnover rate
of scientists, a decrepit information technology system, a weak
organizational structure,
and a shrinking inspection force.
The Government Accountability Office, meanwhile, warns that at a time
when imports
are pouring in from all over the globe, the agency does not have
enough staff or
adequate computer systems to conduct timely inspections of foreign
plants that make
drugs, medical devices and food products. That is especially worrisome
in China,
the source of so many dangerous goods. At its current pace, the agency
would take
13 years to inspect every foreign drug plant exporting to the United
States, 27
years to check every foreign medical device plant and 1,900 years to
inspect every
foreign food plant.
The reason for the agency's woes is simple. Congress has repeatedly
piled new burdens
on the F.D.A. -- more than 100 statutes have added new responsibilities
over the
past 20 years -- without providing enough money and personnel to carry
out the tasks.
To make things worse, the increasing complexity of modern medical
products and the
flood of food and drug ingredients from abroad have overwhelmed the
agency's ability
to keep up.
User fees from industry have helped the F.D.A. review applications to
market new
drugs and medical devices in this country, but the agency's underlying
scientific
core is eroding. The two units that regulate food are in "a state of
crisis," according
to the science board, and dietary supplements and cosmetics get short
shrift.
The near unanimity about the agency's weaknesses -- among Congressional
Democrats
and Republicans, industry and consumer groups, and authoritative
independent analysts
-- is striking. But hand wringing is not enough. The F.D.A. desperately
needs an
infusion of money and talent. To make up for decades of neglect, Mr.
Hutt proposes
that its appropriation be doubled and its staff increased by 50
percent over the
next two years.
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