FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/fdas-top-tobacco-scientist-takes-job-at-marlboro-maker-philip-morris/

by keithly • 4 years ago

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j7ake• 4 years ago

Public servants should be banned from getting a job at a related private company for a period of at least 5 years. Otherwise the public servant isn’t serving the public, but the corporations.

HWR_142• 4 years ago

Why would five years make a difference?

kadoban• 4 years ago

It would raise the effective price of switching, making the bribe more expensive.

ekianjo2• 4 years ago

Is that stuff news? It's well known that FDA guys do favors for the industry and then go work in executive positions a few years later. Legal kickback for useful "friendships".

You should be also aware that the FDA hires external consultants to do some of their review/expert work, and the same consultants on the other hand are paid by the industry to write filings (for new drug submissions and more) that end up at the FDA for review. Complete conflict of interest in the open, and nobody does anything about it.

HWR_142• 4 years ago

Where else would a tobacco scientist work but at a tobacco company or in the government?

ornornor• 4 years ago

Where it’s not a conflict of interest.

ekianjo2• 4 years ago

The problem is not the move, but the fact that there is a cozy relationship between the authorities that regulate everything, and the industry that makes stuff. You can't trust either party if they collude.

FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris

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