"But Mr. Carpenter stood by his conclusions, releasing a 151-page memo and his raw data on the Internet. After a detailed comparison, both sides' records turned out to have been imperfect, he said. "I'll frankly admit that we omitted four or five of the black-box warnings," Mr. Carpenter said. But the FDA "missed a whole bunch of black-box warnings" as well, he said."
Yes, well you know what they say, sins of omission are seldom fun.
"An FDA spokesman said the agency hadn't seen Dr. Carpenter's response until it received a copy from The Wall Street Journal, and hadn't had time to review it."
Sound familiar? It's strangely reminiscent of Dr. Nissen's rationale for why he didn't go to the FDA with his now-infamous (and discredited) meta-analysis.
Birds of a feather. Just another sad example of Tabloid Medicine.
