Vaping Venture Poses Potential Conflict for Trump's FDA Nominee

[oplholik]

"President Donald Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb, will be in charge of implementing new rules governing the e-cigarette industry after serving for more than a year on the board of a company that sells vaping products."

Vaping Venture Poses Potential Conflict for Trump's FDA Nominee

 

[bsidb]

I don't see the problem

 

[oplholik]

Me either. It doesn't seem there is a problem with conflict of interest in the other sides camp.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Note that story was written by Bloomberg reporters who hypocritically touted the accusation by vapor prohibitionist CTFK that FDA nominee Scott Gottlieb has a vapor conflict of interest (without acknowledging that CTFK has lied about vapor products and lobbied FDA to ban them since 2009, or that CTFK has received >$100 Million from Big Pharma and millions more from vaping prohibitionist Michael Bloomberg).

 

[sofarsogood]

They could argue that someone who has been a farmer can't work for the Department of Agriculture because there is a conflict of interest? Or you can't work at the Federal reserve if you ever worked for a bank? If science rules decision making at the FDA (not) then that should always win the argument. I'd like to see some FDA science about vaping now please. Please?