big pharma is attempting to leverage recent grumbles about the safety of the food supply into a full-scale demolition of the fda.
look, we won't kid you: the fda sucks. big pharma all but owns it, and the recent spate of back-stepping tv ads and recalled drugs are enough to show that the handwriting is definitely on the wall. so how can it be a good thing if there is less oversight and a rush to get unproven drugs to market even faster (that is, before the lawyers can get them banned because they caused little timmy's head to become a puffball mushroom)?
does the fda need to be rebuilt? absolutely. but since when is it a good idea to let the fox design the henhouse?
