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As Public Trust Wanes, FDA Pledges to ‘Save Lives’ by Policing Online Content
Children's Defense Network ^ | February 22, 2023 | Michael Nevradakis

Posted on 02/22/2023 6:50:27 PM PST by Golden Eagle

Since U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf began his second tenure as the agency’s head in February 2022, he has made combating “misinformation” one of his top priorities, arguing it is “a leading cause of preventable death in America now” — though “this cannot be proved,” he said.

In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press (AP), Califf, who also headed the FDA between 2016 and 2017, reiterated his pledge to “save lives” by policing online content.

One year into his second tenure as FDA commissioner — and despite waning public trust in the FDA — Califf has launched several FDA initiatives aimed “‘helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medical products and foods to maintain and improve their health’ in the face of a tsunami of confusing and misleading information.”

In his AP interview, Califf said increasing “distortions and half-truths” about vaccines and other medical treatments are “a leading cause of death in America.”

“Almost no one should be dying of COVID in the U.S. today,” he said, adding that people who deny themselves the vaccines “are dying because they’re misinformed.”

Combating “misinformation” is one of Califf’s priorities, along with “restructuring the agency’s food safety program and more aggressively deploying FDA scientists to explain vaccine decisions in the media.”

(Excerpt) Read more at childrenshealthdefense.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: califf; covid; disinformation; misinformation; risk; riskmanagement; vaccine

1 posted on 02/22/2023 6:50:27 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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More censorship coming your way.


2 posted on 02/22/2023 6:52:40 PM PST by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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To: Golden Eagle

FDA’s drug division is funded 75% by the pharmaceutical industry. Guess who this quack doctor works for.


3 posted on 02/22/2023 6:54:06 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Hasn’t what this guy is saying — that the vaccines are necessary — already been debunked?


4 posted on 02/22/2023 6:56:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Golden Eagle
Appears he is not on the same page as nih.gov and their publications.

Turns out Ivermectin is anti-viral, anti-cancer and even fixes hypertension.

5 posted on 02/22/2023 7:01:49 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Golden Eagle

With every planned crisis they squeeze our liberties further. Controlling the narrative may have been effective two years ago, but not anymore.


6 posted on 02/22/2023 7:23:03 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: Golden Eagle
Snake oil being sold by snakes.
FDA has difficulty building a pyramid, contradicting
themselves repeatedly. Any certificate found on any
wall of its employees (public servants) is bogus, BOGUS
I tell you.
7 posted on 02/23/2023 1:13:10 AM PST by V K Lee ((Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document unlike any other.))
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To: Golden Eagle

FDA has been 100% controlled by corporate interests at least since the 1990s. Food is full of high fructose corn syrup, soybean oil, and MSG. They sold us out to the food manufacturers long ago. Big Medicine heartily approves because the more sick we are, the more people turn to pills and doctor visits, hospital visits.

Never mind GMO which allows crops to thrive after being hosed with Round Up, then the Round Up goes into our groundwater supply.

It is a win win for the government and industry. As usual, the people get the shaft. We are being steadily poisoned by the FDA.


8 posted on 02/23/2023 5:28:46 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: V K Lee
V K Lee :" Snake oil being sold by snakes.
FDA has difficulty building a pyramid, contradicting themselves repeatedly..."

Directly from the news source article at ChhildrensHealthDefense.org :
”In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press (AP), Califf, who also headed the FDA between 2016 and 2017,
reiterated his pledge to “save lives” by policing online content. “

”According to "Pharma Intelligence", Califf’s interest in targeting so-called “misinformation,” particularly on social media platforms, stems from his previous job at Verily,
a life sciences company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. “

(My Comment) : So the head of FDA is concerned about “faux outrage and lies,” and misinformation, yet he gets published in “Pharma Intelligence” ,
and having been previously employed at a company, Verily, owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet.
Both organizations which have a history known to stifle discussion or even contrary opinions through censorship and ideology.
Yeah, I am sure we will get an honest answer with integrity from the FDA.

9 posted on 02/24/2023 10:06:46 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Deaf Smith
"Turns out Ivermectin is anti-viral, anti-cancer and even fixes hypertension."

This raises the question of exactly who is putting out "disinformation"? Could it be the FDA?

🤔

10 posted on 02/24/2023 10:24:43 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peazceful slave in a\ new Socialist America)
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For the last few years the government has been a steady source of lies and deceit. I almost cried when I realized that.


11 posted on 02/24/2023 10:26:29 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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