A mosquito in charge of the blood supply
What kind of person do you want running the Food and Drug Administration? A scientist who has a good understanding of food and drug safety and a commitment to ensure both for the citizenry.
Oops! Joke’s on you! Trump wants the other kind – the kind who thinks the citizenry should take care of itself and not expect some government bureaucrat to do it, god damn it.
President-elect Donald Trump is weighing naming as Food and Drug Administration commissioner a staunch libertarian who has called for eliminating the agency’s mandate to determine whether new medicines are effective before approving them for sale.
Sure. Just throw them out there and see what happens.
“Let people start using them, at their own risk,” the candidate, Jim O’Neill, said in a 2014 speech to a biotech group.
O’Neill has also called for paying organ donors and setting up libertarian societies at sea—and has said he was surprised to discover that FDA regulators actually enjoy science and like working to fight disease.
A source close to the Trump transition team told STAT that Peter Thiel, the billionaire Trump donor who is helping shape the new administration, is pushing for the FDA appointment for O’Neill, his managing director at Mithril Capital Management.
Oh well, it’s only food and medicine.
Yeah, wake us when it’s something important.
Trump says O’Neill’s proposed policy sounds good to him. He says he was really sad in the 60s when Europe had lots of thalidomide babies but the US didn’t. He wished there had been some around for him to make fun of and throw rocks at. It made him sad that there weren’t any. But now we will again have the opportunity for widespread birth defects caused by marketing untested drugs to pregnant women–so many birth defects, you won’t believe it! Tremendous birth defects! The best!