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Originally Posted by svandamme

It is a pharma issue when the doctors are in their pockets and prescribing the legal drugs like hotcakes.

They use the revolving door with the FDA and they use it very effectively.

Those who review the drugs leave the FDA all the time to go work with the Pharmaceutical companies. So who are they working for , do you think?

Jobs taken after working in the FDA’s Oncology Products Division :

You are exaggerating. I worked as a Regulatory Affairs professional for 15 years after 30 years as a research chemist. That "revolving door" you so blithely refer to stops quickly and more frequently than you know. It is not easy nor quick to get medications through the FDA. Heck even toothpaste is subjected to federal regulation.

Doctors in our pockets? What a joke. We can't even buy them a meal without approval and documentation.

Yes FDA officials do find employment in the industry after life in the FDA. It's their chance to finally make decent money using their education and skills. But they are subject to the same scrutiny that any Pharma scientist is and we do get reviewed, thoroughly by the gov't checking into shady practices. The Park Doctrine can reach deeply into an organization.

Anyone still under the impression that Rx meds are completely safe and without risk has been asleep for decades. Even Ibuprofen has risks.