FDA Alzheimer's Drug Corruption Scandal

[Jarvis323]

The FDA recently approved an Alzheimer's drug that doesn't seem to work and has serious side effects, going against the unanimous recommendations of their scientific panel. So far 3 have resigned in protest.

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEAfanjTpVjFdpO8P6xQrhykqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow2Nb3CjDivdcCMMHF0wY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Approving the drug is clearly a bad decision, but where is the evidence for corruption?

 

[morrobay]

Approving the drug is clearly a bad decision, but where is the evidence for corruption?

Perhaps an investigation could answer that question. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...a-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Perhaps an investigation could answer that question. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...a-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical

That's an article from 2018 about approval of a different drug. The article does suggest that there are sometimes undisclosed conflicts of interests in the FDA approval process, but no direct evidence of any in the Aducanumab approval. It's certainly a possibility that should be investigated, and I'm sure many are.

 

[Jarvis323]

The article also seems to suggest conflicts of interests for the advisory panel. But in the case of Aducanumab, nobody in the advisory panel voted for approval.