Jim O’Neill once proposed doing away with FDA's mandate of assuring new drugs are safe and effective, suggesting that could be done after they hit the market.

President Donald Trump has picked Jim O’Neill, a former investor and critic of health regulations serving under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to take control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following a tumultuous week in which the agency’s director was forced out.

O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy at the Department of Health and Human Services, will supplant Susan Monarez, a longtime government scientist who had been the CDC director for less than a month.

Monarez’s lawyers said she refused “to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.”

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Ha! That rings a bell. Somewhere back in the mists of time, I wonder if I ran across the same thing. Or I seem to remember something about a contract, and I thought there was also a component of buying into it with large amounts of money to help fund it. Sort of like a proto-GoFundMe project.