Check this out...The Trump FDA's top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friendwho strongly believes the agency should add new warnings about antidepressants and pregnancy risks.
So what does the Associated Press do?They pen a hit piece, smearing Hoeg, her associate, and suggesting that peer reviewed studies over the risks are 'unproven.'
This is how the medical arm of the blob works, andPaul Thacker of theDisInformation Chronicleis calling them out...
Associated Press Cannot Explain Bewildering Reporting on FDA’s Tracy Hoeg and Antidepressant Risks
Cruising through X last week a weird story caught my eye: it reported that The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, was trying to hire a “friend” who wants the FDA to add warnings to antidepressants about “unproven pregnancy risks.”The story makes several claims that are bewildering and appear to be fabricated.I sent several questions to AP’sglobal health editor Jonathan Fahey, but he did not respond to repeated requests to explain the article’s puzzling errors.
AP reporter Matthew Perrone later blocked me on X. I’ve pasted my email to Fahey at the bottom of this article.
The person AP’s Matthew Perrone identifies as a “friend” of FDA’s Hoeg is Dr. Adam Urato, chief of maternal-fetal medicine at Metro West Medical Center in Massachusetts.
Onepassage in the AP storystood out to me:
Within the agency, Hoeg’s close relationship with Urato is viewed as a clear conflict of interest that, under normal FDA standards, would result in her recusing herself from any work on the petition. But Hoeg is actively working to speed up the agency’s review of her friend’s proposal, according to the people familiar with the situation.
I have never seen the term “friend” defined as a “conflict of interest” by any federal agency.Nor have I run across “friend” defined as a “conflict of interest” in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. It’s a conflict of interest that doesn’t seem to exist.
Source: ZeroHedge News
