Political interference at FDA?

Information Costs, Policy Uncertainty, and Political Control: Federal Advisory Committees at the FDA

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Why Do Government Banks Perform Worse? —A Political Interference View

This study proposes a political interference hypothesis to explain how political considerations depress government banks performance. In here, we define the political interference as the situation in which the executives of government banks are replaced within 12 months after the presidential elections. We classify government banks into political and non-political banks when the government bank...

Vioxx, the implosion of Merck, and aftershocks at the FDA.

While We’re at It, Let’s Whack the FDA

It’s that time, early in the cycle of U.S. presidential campaigns, when candidates try to attract attention by announcing their personal plans for reforming the government.This year’s proposals runthestrangegamut frombuildingawall on the Mexican border to keeping out undocumented Hispanic immigrants to banning all Muslims, even Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and other iconic Muslim-American...

A sad day for science at the FDA.