Tag: conflict of interest

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Not Recommending US Constitution as Model for Egypt

~ Pharmer

Anything but the U.S. Constitution………. which Supreme Court Justice Bader-Ginsburg apparently thinks is too old and outdated. It shows in how she has refused to uphold it in many of her decisions. How’s that for job dissatisfaction?

Update:  There is significant  interest in this particular news item, as evidenced  by the numerous  visits to  this post.   Pharmer’s Paternal Unit weighed in offline,  wishing  Bader-Ginsberg could be impeached, and citing  the conflict of interest with her stated job function and obligation.

Crony Capitalism at the FDA – Comes Back To Bite

~ Pharmer

Medical News: FDA Yaz Panel Had Ties to Industry – in Washington-Watch, FDA General from MedPage Today.

Some of the panalists on the FDA advisory committee which endorsed the Yaz and Yazmin branded birth control pills, had ties to Bayer, the manufacturer of those pills.

The panelists of the Reproductive Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory committee  jointly voted 15 to 11  that the benefits of drosperinone-containing BCPs outweighed the risks.

Some  members reported their financial  ties to Bayer,  and the FDA thought that was just fine, and not a conflict of interest sufficient for their exclusion from the advisory groups.

Sidney Wolfe, MD, of Public Citizen comsumer advocacy group had opposed that class of birth control pills due to risk of thromboembolism.   His role on the advisory committee was reduced to non-voting status due to his ‘intellectual conflicts’.

Intellectual conflict = bad.  Financial conflict = good.

What goes around, comes around, and Bayer has to feed the lawyers now, after years of untoward post-marketing experience.

Was this an purposefully  constructed food chain?