Your new FDA Director?

[Flavored]

Trump Considering Libertarian For FDA Who Wants To Legalize Organ Sales

Ignore that tripe about organ sales, never happen anywhere. But a Libertarian in the FDA's big chair will be a very very good thing.

 

[zoiDman]

Organs! Get your Organs! Fresh, Hot Organs here. buy 2 and get 1 Free.

LOL.

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The timing of this report could be fortuitous, as President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is considering candidates for the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. The next FDA chief could radically overhaul the agency and upend the huge regulatory regime that includes the recent rules on the e-cigarette industry.

Top names under consideration are Jim O’Neill, a former Health and Human Services advisor, and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA deputy commissioner and current resident fellow with the American Enterprise Institute.

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Surgeon general's e-cigarette report panned as 'truly terrible' - Watchdog.org

 

[WillyZee]

sweet ... I may sell some of my organs for vape gear

 

[Dougiestyle]

Anybody looking for a kidney or retina?

 

[zoiDman]

Anybody looking for a kidney or retina?

Do you take Paypal?

 

[sofarsogood]

There must be a lot of politicians who have been waitng years for a brain transplant. May be the libertarians are on to something.

 

[oplholik]

Do you take Paypal?

With no mention of ecf or e-cigs.

 

[sofarsogood]

With no mention of ecf or e-cigs.

A libertarian FDA secretary sounds promising to me. In fact it's startling. Why didn't I think of that?

 

[retired1]

Keep it on topic folks.

 

[sofarsogood]

Dr. Farsalinos would be my pick for head of the FDA. Or how about give him Zeller's job. A few Greeks in government would be a good thing.

 

[WillyZee]

some things never change

 

[TVC70]

This could be one of the most interesting appointments in American history, should he get the job.

 

[Verb]

Keep it on topic folks.

What's not on topic? I read the thread over three times.

 

[Stubby]

Dr. Farsalinos would be my pick for head of the FDA. Or how about give him Zeller's job. A few Greeks in government would be a good thing.

The logical choice from a tobacco harm reduction view would be Bill Godshall for Zeller's job. At the moment the whole TPSAC is full of abstinence only prohibitionist type, and I should add most with big Pharma connections. Getting someone in who supports tobacco harm reduction as opposed to quit or die abstinence would solve a whole lot of problems. We might actually get some rational tobacco policies.

 

[sofarsogood]

The logical choice from a tobacco harm reduction view would be Bill Godshall for Zeller's job. At the moment the whole TPSAC is full of abstinence only prohibitionist type, and I should add most with big Pharma connections. Getting someone in who supports tobacco harm reduction as opposed to quit or die abstinence would solve a whole lot of problems. We might actually get some rational tobacco policies.

I bet there is a scramble right now suggesting people to fill the several thousand appointed positions the president gets to decide. Should the vape community or the advocate organizations be trying to participate in that process? Are they already? The Surgeon General has two more years for his term. May be he will do the nation a favor and go back to his Ivory tower and get out of our lives.

 

[Kent C]

Trump Team Said to Consider Thiel Associate O’Neill for FDA

“We should reform FDA so there is approving drugs after their sponsors have demonstrated safety -- and let people start using them, at their own risk, but not much risk of safety,” O’Neill said in a speech at an August 2014 conference called Rejuvenation Biotechnology. “Let’s prove efficacy after they’ve been legalized.”

“Basically, because there’s not a free market in health care, people are suffering very significant health consequences that in a free market they would not suffer,” he said in a talk at the 2009 Seasteading Conference. Among other advantages, a free market in health care “would drive prices much lower and allow innovation in cheaper delivery of care, both in terms of drugs and devices and better forms of delivery,” he said.

 

[zoiDman]

Trump's rumored FDA candidate strikes nerve

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Trump's rumored FDA candidate strikes nerve

Public Safety should have always been at the top of the list, no matter whom was in the drivers seat. But, as we all have seen in the last 8 years, are the numerous class action suits and recall of medical devices that cause harm. "What a tangled web we weave....."

 

[zoiDman]

Mr. O'Neill does have some Interesting Ideas.

O'Neill has also suggested that people should be allowed to be paid to donate their organs. “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused,” he said in a speech in 2009, according to Stat News.

“We should reform FDA so that it’s approving drugs after their sponsors have demonstrated safety and let people start using them at their own risk, but not much risk of safety,” O’Neill said. “But let’s prove efficacy after they’ve been legalized.”

Trump's rumored FDA candidate strikes nerve

 

[Rossum]

Is this anything buy a rumor right now?