Five years ago, in 2007, a report bearing the revealing title “FDA Science and Mission at Risk” by the Subcommittee on Science and Technology1, detailed how the FDAcannot fulfill its mission because: The FDA’s mission statement reads as follows: “The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health …
Documenting the news, views, audio and video surrounding the surveillance scandal ripping through the Food and Drug Administration, that has come to be known as FDAGate or Pharmagate.
Who authorized the FDA to spy on some of its own employees and those with whom they may have communicated? The culprit appears to have been the FDA Office of Chief Counsel, according to US Senator Chuck Grassley, who made the disclosure in a scathing letter to FDA commish Margaret …
In the first half, Steve Kohn and Gary Null discuss the shocking revelation in the New York Times that the FDA not only illegally spied on whistleblowers, but the FDA also posted over 80,000 documents they stole on a public server accessible on Google. The FDA began its illegal surveillance …
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UPDATE: Steve Kohn, attorney for the scientists who are suing the FDA, and PRN Host, will be delving deeply into this issue on tomorrow’s (7/17) Honesty Without Fear: The Whistleblowers Radio Hour. A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies …
The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund and the failures of Haitian reconstruction Julie Levesque is an independent investigative journalist and a researcher associated with the Center for Research on Globalization – a non profit academic research and international media organization in Montreal, under the directorship of Michel Chossudovsky. She was among the …
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In the first half hour, Richard Renner interviews whistleblower attorney Reuben Guttman. Mr. Guttman has been counsel in some of the largest recoveries under the Federal False Claims Act, including the recent $1.6 billion settlement with Abbott Laboratories for its illegal marketing of antiepileptic medication Depakote to children and geriatric patients. They …
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