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Alison Wright's avatar

Well done Hedley. After exhausting all options escalating a complaint about a public authority, you can then ask for a Judicial Review of the handling of your complaint (if it meets the criteria). I submitted one yesterday against the Lords' Commissioner for Standards for failing to uphold that the Attorney General should have declared his active directorship of Matrix Chambers Limited, upon entering the Lords. I'll let you know what happens! Let me know when you are ready to go to Judicial Review and I'll share insights. Time allowing, I'll write an article on it!

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Nabeela's avatar

It seems to me there's more oversight for restaurants, or anyone selling food in Australia than there is for manufacturers of supposedly sterile products to be injected into people in the US.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

That is so right Nabeela! Love getting the insightful comments :)

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John's avatar

The author of the 2023 book 'Ultra-Processed People' (Dr. C van Tulleken, UCL Hospital, London) stated that the pharmaceutical industry is more regulated than the processed food industry. Naive seems an understatement to me.

His food revelations are interesting though.

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ΔV's avatar

Um, RFK Jr?

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Hedley Rees's avatar

My only defence is old age Dimitri 😩😇

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Sandra's avatar

Did you mean RFK Jr?

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Hedley Rees's avatar

Silly me 😂😇 thanks for the correction Sandra!

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David Schmitt, Ph.D.'s avatar

I am sure that JFK, Jr. sees this post. No reading glasses needed.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

He’s been a paid subscriber since October 2022 - he is playing a blinder so far…FDA is key to turning this around, now Marks is gone, CDC is neutered and the core of FDA Inspection teams is out there catching the baddies 👊

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Transcriber B's avatar

Da clywed!

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David Schmitt, Ph.D.'s avatar

We can hope. I am concerned where wearables will wind up, though. I spoke up about this at a surgical conference in 2019 where a Google executive gave a presentation regarding the wonderful benefits of such devices. To say that this technology should be "optional and available" (for worst-case scenarios), we have now learned, is euphemistic language meaning "eventually ubiquitous and mandatory under penalty of law"---as in the policies utilizing those brutal COVID cops we watched (and experienced) over the past five years. And the intrusiveness, tracking capability and social disruption of the cell phone can be cranked back at anytime to the old rotary phone---is it THAT kind of "optional?" The embeddedness of this technology, as in "under the skin" and institutionally--both--will make this essentially unavoidable for except mountain men.

So you are a bee man too?

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Phillip Bartleman449562's avatar

I think you need to be in the FDA Hedley to do their job

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Hedley Rees's avatar

They do need help, Phillip. The main need though is to do things such as stopping the pharma companies funding most of the cost of FDA. FDA, as an independent regulator, should be funded from the public purse, same for all agencies. The next thing is to clamp down on rogue manufacturers and supplies in the supply chain - under previous FDA Commissioners, such as Gottlieb, who went straight to the Pfizer board on leaving, it had become all too friendly and cosy - I think that will change now under RFK Jr 👊💪

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