This patient thinks that the FDA/Pharma complex has become way too cozy.
FDA funding now comes directly from pharmaceutical companies, and they get no further funding from drugs that they do not approve.
When a drug company enrolls a new product for FDA approval, they also hand over $500,000 for oversight expenses, and they keep handing over more and more money until the drug is either approved or terminated.
The FDA is not an independent body. They routinely gag investigators who raise alarms about new products.
That is EXACTLY how the Vioxx episode occurred. The people in the FDA who were against its approval were ordered to shut up.
Abolish the FDA.
Trial lawyers are the scum of the earth, but at least they are independent of the pharmaceutical companies.
Sad to say, drug regulation by lawsuit is a lot more honest and effective than drug regulation by the FDA.
The people who work at the FDA need to be shot.
They take 20 years to approve drugs and then miss this crap, which would seem to me to be a pretty serious side effect.