Big Dairy wants the term “milk” reserved for the white liquid cows squirt, so they’re pressuring Congress and the FDA to prohibit plant-based alternatives from using that term on their products (see story here). The gist of the story is, doesn’t the FDA have better things to [...]
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FDA vaccine approval makes no difference to GOP governor
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “banning any governmental entity in the state from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of its approval status” almost immediately after the FDA “granted full approval” to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine,” The Hil[...]
White House threatens FDA chief: “Approve vaccine or resign”
President Trump intervened in the FDA approval process for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in the most shocking way possible on Friday, December 11, 2020. He ordered the agency head to either approve the vaccine or else. The threat was conveyed to FDA Commissioner Dr. Steven Hahn by Mark Meadows, Tr[...]
May 6th, 2017 - 8:23 am § in Donald Trump
FDA employees forced to watch Fox News
FDA Will Now Be Fair and Balanced? On orders from the Trump administration, all the TV screens on a Food and Drug Administration campus have been permanently tuned to Fox News, and can’t be switched to any other channel. Read story here. It seems reasonable to assume that similar policies will[...]
August 22nd, 2014 - 2:11 am § in Hypocrisy
How To Sell Drugs Without FDA Approval
What is a drug? a natural or artificial substance given to treat or prevent illness or to lessen pain Unless someone calls it “natural” and sells it in a health food store. Read this story of a high school student who suffered severe liver dama[...]
November 25th, 2013 - 8:24 pm § in Uncategorized
The FDA and BAD Science
Not All Bad Science Comes From The Right According to the Associated Press the Food and Drug Administration is ordering 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits because the company has “failed to show that the technology is backed by science.” This is nonsense and a b[...]
February 14th, 2012 - 4:53 am § in Uncategorized
FDA approves new miracle drug!
The FDA approved a hangover drug to be sold over the counter by Rally Labs. The pills will consist of aspirin, caffeine and stomach soothing agents all in two effervescent tablets.[...]
Can states ban lab-grown meat?
That’s a complicated legal question the courts will have to answer. The closest analogy I can think of is Wisconsin’s margarine ban in effect from 1895 to 1967 (see story here); as far as I know, it was never struck down by the courts. That ban was enacted to protect Wisconsin’s da[...]
June 21st, 2024 - 4:46 pm § in Politics
Elections don’t have to be perfect
There’s no such thing as a perfect election. Conducting a large election is a vast and complicated enterprise. Glitches occur: Polling place snafus, voting machines that didn’t work, miscounted ballots, lost ballots, and so on. But inadvertent problems and mistakes don’t target any[...]
Monologue isn’t dialogue
This excerpt is from a story in The Daily, the University of Washington’s student newspaper, that was published online on May 2, 2024 (read it here): James Pfeiffer, professor of global health at UW, encourages people on campus to go down and engage with the encampment and in dialogue with pro[...]