The FDA is responsible for ensuring drug safety and efficacy, as well as fostering innovation that improves people’s health. It cannot achieve these goals by undermining sound science with erratic and unscientific decision-making — and it’s ultimately patients who will pay the price.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration supposedly “implements gold standard science.”
Yet the agency appears to relish obstructing scientific progress. Earlier this month, Vinay Prasad, the director of FDA’s vaccine division, rejected Moderna’s application for a new mRNA flu vaccine for adults 50 and older on dubious grounds.
The FDA claimed that the application did not contain an “adequate and well-controlled” trial, but that is nonsense.
Not only is the trial consistent with the agency’s current regulations, but the FDA has also been fully aware of the design for more than a year.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
An anti-science FDA is a threat to our health and prosperity
Wayne H Winegarden
The FDA is responsible for ensuring drug safety and efficacy, as well as fostering innovation that improves people’s health. It cannot achieve these goals by undermining sound science with erratic and unscientific decision-making — and it’s ultimately patients who will pay the price.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration supposedly “implements gold standard science.”
Yet the agency appears to relish obstructing scientific progress. Earlier this month, Vinay Prasad, the director of FDA’s vaccine division, rejected Moderna’s application for a new mRNA flu vaccine for adults 50 and older on dubious grounds.
The FDA claimed that the application did not contain an “adequate and well-controlled” trial, but that is nonsense.
Not only is the trial consistent with the agency’s current regulations, but the FDA has also been fully aware of the design for more than a year.
Read the entire op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.