Whatever happened to “there’s no place for politics at the FDA?” Steve Nissan’s shades-of-Watergate “secret tapes” notwithstanding, the debate over Avandia must be decided based on science and the best judgment of FDA career professionals.
Secret tapes? David Graham? We’ve been down this road before. Let’s get real here folks and let the FDA do its job without political interference.
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