Keep Politics Out Of Science, Says Departing FDA Chief

President Donald Trump has not said who he wants to head the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates a quarter of the U.S. economy. But Trump has made headlines by meeting with candidates for the job who publicly proposed that newly approved drugs need not be effective or that regulations should be rolled back so more medicines could be approved.

Robert Califf, the legendary cardiologist who has run the FDA for the past year, has his own opinion about the agency’s direction.

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