Rennie quotes

Last week I was at the Rocky Mountain Workshop on Evidence-based Health Care in Vail, Colorado, and one of the speakers at one of the plenary sessions was Drummond Rennie, a somewhat wild force of nature who is an editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He had a lot of interesting things to say about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including:

"The FDA is a bought- or captured-agency -- I think that's accepted now."

"...the FDA is entirely pro-industry...."

"FDA is totally captured by the industry it's supposed to regulate."

He also noted that since 2000 drug companies have paid $5B in criminal fines.