(Italic emphasis above mine)
I wonder how many more sources of bias there are by FDA standards? And what they condsider would be more prejudicial than the doctor being paid by
the drug manufacturer who's product they are supposed to be testing in an unbiased fashion?
Questions. Questions. 
And where does the National Institue of Health stand on all of this?
A similar investigation by the inspector general last year found that the National Institutes of Health did almost nothing to police the financial
conflicts of university professors who received federal money. And like their colleagues at the F.D.A., officials at the health institutes said they
did not want to start doing so, that investigation found.
The above quote is from the orginal article, it is worth the read.
It will be interesting to see how Obama deals with these agencies (FDA, EPA, FEMA, etc.) that have ecome blatant revolving door for lobbyist and
industry insiders who work at the behest of their corporate masters.
www.nytimes.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
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