Given the fact pattern surrounding the COVID vaccines, this was always the inevitable next step. If they can get away with openly fraudulent clinical trials while courts deny any ability to file suit against the FDA and CDC due to "lack of standing", then there is nothing to prevent progression to more flagrant efforts to approve medications without any evidence of safety or efficacy. This proves what students of Austrian economics have known for decades, namely, that government institutions have no incentive to meaningfully protect consumers. If there were ever any individuals in these bureaucracies with good intentions, they have all long ago been replaced in accordance with Pournelle's Iron Law. What we need is for institutions like HHS to have safeguards against the obvious ethical issues with conflicts of interest that have arisen... PSYCH! They already have this bullshit, and Anthony Fauci's wife is one of the top ethicists at NIH. Can we please just use this as an opportunity to recognize that government regulation of industry is bankrupt of purpose and function and call for the abolition of these institutions that serve as nothing more than apologists for corporate malfeasance?
46% of the FDA funding comes from industry, not the federal budget. The CDC accepts 'gifts' and has what is called the "CDC Foundation" (https://www.cdcfoundation.org/) that, in 2020, took in over $250 million in 'donations'. Shockingly, many of these donations are from the exact industries that are encouraging the CDC to fund (or approve) their product. Disgusting.
Given the fact pattern surrounding the COVID vaccines, this was always the inevitable next step. If they can get away with openly fraudulent clinical trials while courts deny any ability to file suit against the FDA and CDC due to "lack of standing", then there is nothing to prevent progression to more flagrant efforts to approve medications without any evidence of safety or efficacy. This proves what students of Austrian economics have known for decades, namely, that government institutions have no incentive to meaningfully protect consumers. If there were ever any individuals in these bureaucracies with good intentions, they have all long ago been replaced in accordance with Pournelle's Iron Law. What we need is for institutions like HHS to have safeguards against the obvious ethical issues with conflicts of interest that have arisen... PSYCH! They already have this bullshit, and Anthony Fauci's wife is one of the top ethicists at NIH. Can we please just use this as an opportunity to recognize that government regulation of industry is bankrupt of purpose and function and call for the abolition of these institutions that serve as nothing more than apologists for corporate malfeasance?
46% of the FDA funding comes from industry, not the federal budget. The CDC accepts 'gifts' and has what is called the "CDC Foundation" (https://www.cdcfoundation.org/) that, in 2020, took in over $250 million in 'donations'. Shockingly, many of these donations are from the exact industries that are encouraging the CDC to fund (or approve) their product. Disgusting.
They already conducted a clinical trial with five billion people and the trial failed.