https://americanfaith.com/pharma-reps-pushed-out-of-fda-advisory-committees/
" The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is removing representatives of pharmaceutical companies from its advisory committees. The development serves Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promise to “carry out the Department’s work with ‘radical transparency’ and mitigate perceived industry influence and conflicts of interests,” the FDA said in a news release.
“While the FDA should be partnering with industry to ensure a user-friendly review process, the scientific evaluation of new products should be independent,” said FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary. “Industry employees are welcome to attend FDA advisory committee meetings, along with the rest of the American public, but having industry employees serve as official members of FDA advisory committee members represents a cozy relationship that is concerning to many Americans. In fact, the FDA has a history of being influenced unduly by corporate interests.”
“Public trust in the healthcare-industrial complex is at an all-time low. We need to restore impeccable integrity to the process and avoid potential conflicts of interest,” Makary added. " End Quote
This is a long overdue correction of a profound conflict of interest.
Ever since the formation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the history of federal government regulatory bodies is that they become the captives of the very industries they purport to regulate (as happened with the railroad interests and the ICC).
I would also exclude any academics who have professional or financial linkages to pharmaceutical companies.
The SEC is the biggest, most corrupt example of this. They literally do nothing to stop crime and simply serve as a barrier to smaller firms before they become a threat to big money. Congress has never been arrested for insider trading, big banks get convicted for felonies - even as bad as actual knowingly working to launder money for cartels which would under any RICO ACT prosecution make them actually guilty of murder etc - and yet the SEC only ever punishes large financial institutions a fraction of the profits. Not even fining them enough to discourage the crime itself again - just reducing profit margins slightly. And when those institutions were publicly exposed illegally shorting over 200% (probably way over, but the regulatory agency official numbers showed 226% so proof of systemic crime is on their own public record) literally no one was investigated let alone charged with naked shorting. Instead, the SEC and even Congress redirected their inquiries towards safe legal topic like "gamification" with intent to try and make it harder for retail investors to catch them in the act again.
And SEC employees are well rewarded for their complicity. The last SEC Chairman was worth 9 figures, previously ran Hillary's Presidential campaign, and infamously deregulated the laws that would have made another Great Depression impossible to replicate (as well as 2008, and the financial collapse in progress that's already larger than 2008 even though they aren't even discussing it like a collapse). Regular low level SEC employees constantly take high paying jobs at Wall Street financial firms, the revolving door corruption and back scratching reward system is obvious and a conflict of interest by design.
SEC can be safely dissolved with no negative outcomes. The FBI actually proved this several times - the first big example was when the SEC had enough evidence to arrest Bernie Madoff for a decade, but instead chose to endorse him (and increase his victim pool substantially, helping him commit even larger scale crimes). They literally never took action against Madoff - his own children were advised to take their testimony to the FBI who arrested Madoff immediately without any SEC input. The FBI actually had less evidence than the SEC had for a decade when Madoff was arrested by them. More recently a few years ago the FBI decided to go after Anson Funds for illegal trading. They investigated, made arrests, fined the company more than it was worth, and Anson Funds was destroyed by its crime all in a year. The SEC still to this day had no part of that either, and historically if they had they would only have years of "investigating" doing nothing, with possibly eventually a wrist slap fine with legal indemnity stating "the fine is not an admission of guilt" because thats how they fake-punish every wall street firm worth enough to pay their bribes.
And that was the FBI proving the SEC is unnecessary! The FBI itself is a corrupt organization, most recently in the news exposed for helping high profile politically well connected MS13 gang members continue human trafficking without any police interference, even as local police were trying to stop the criminal and free his victims. When a well documented criminal agency can prove it does another agency's job better than the agency tasked with doing a job, the agency can be safely eliminated with no worry.
SEC next! “Siphon Every Cent” - “Self-Enrichment Commission” - “Selective Enforcement Club” - “Serving Elites Commission”
As Elon called it many years back when Democrats loved him: "Shortseller Enrichment Commission"
He kept insulting the SEC too - so much they took him to court where the judge had to tell the SEC to "put their reasonableness pants on" officially on the public record because they wanted to punish Elon so hard they actually demanded Tesla commit securities fraud for them. This was around the same time the SEC was committing perjury in their suit to try and shut down crypto in the Ripple case (which they eventually lost - thankfully because when an agency has to commit crimes to even levy its case they shouldn't be permitted to win) which shows the corrupt have a criminal hatred of that too for whatever reason. IMO - and I think Musk should point this out and push for it publicly - the absolute best way to use crypto technology is as a voter recognition schema. Crypto is both public in that everyone on the planet can audit transactions and see exactly how many transactions or votes are being amde in real time, forever backward viewable and no month long recounting processes that appear to be utilized to manufacture needed votes long after the election should have been decided. And private in that individual user "wallets" (accounts basically) are private. Someone can see a wallet voted for X candidate, but they can't see who that person is. The vote itself can be audited but the person remains anonymous (except to themself - so you can view and verify that your vote counted and was not flipped later)