#medicaltyranny
"I go down the list of names on the government’s Covid treatment panel, which dialed back hydroxychloroquine use and promoted newer, more costly remdesivir. I’m looking to see if any of them are connected to companies that make hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir. Ideally, none of the panel members should have links to companies benefiting from their decisions. But that world no longer exists in public health. A second-best option would be for advisors to recuse themselves from decisions involving companies they’re connected to. But that world doesn’t exist either.
"What do I find? About one-third of the government’s Covid treatment advisory panel, or eleven members, reported having links to a drug company. Nine of the eleven named Gilead, the maker of remdesivir! What are the natural odds that so many people chosen for an expert panel on Covid would be related to the company making the treatment they ended up favoring?
"I keep digging.
"Beyond the eleven, I identify nine others, including two of the committee’s three leaders, who also have ties to Gilead but hadn’t disclosed them. Two even served on Gilead’s advisory board! Others were paid consultants or received research support and honoraria from Gilead. They weren’t technically required to fess up those relationships because, under the committee’s special rules, for some reason, panel members don’t have to acknowledge conflicts of interest older than eleven months. As if conflicts of interest somehow become irrelevant after eleven months?
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/atkisson-says