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After @ReaganUdall issued its report on 12/19 torching FDA for widespread negligence, head honcho @DrCaliff_FDA called an urgent meeting, one that confirmed the very worst perceptions about his inept leadership.
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Was it a press conference to apologize to the American public? Or with Congress to explain the corruption? Nope. Outrageously, he hosted TFK’s Matt Myers and ALA’s Harold Wimmer.

Here’s confirmation of the meeting, posted on the scheduling page deep within FDA’s garbage barge of a website. No reporters from the national press on the FDA beat covered this development, natch.

Myers of course is the Typhoid Mary of the prohibition panic and Wimmer is ambidextrously corrupt by taking two-handed cash from both Bloomberg and the pharma companies whose nicotine therapies are threatened by vaping.

Here’s American Lung Association getting exposed recently for rank dishonesty on vaping by one of the country’s leading science journalists.
bostonglobe.com/2022/08/10/mag…

Here’s another, from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, lambasting both of them.
philanthropy.com/article/bloomb…

And these are the two retrograde apparatchiks that Califf turned to first for help with spinning the utter debacle laid out so shamefully in the Reagan-Udall report.

No contrition, zero reflection. No effort whatsoever to grapple with corrective solutions to the litany of problems causing active harm to millions of Americans trying valiantly to quit smoking with the help of vaping.

Just immediate CYA with the two guys that are neck-deep in the politicized, dark-money pressure campaign that led FDA off the cliff. It’d be like getting charged with bank robbery and asking the getaway drivers for legal advice.

Hey here’s an idea. Why not take one of Reagan-Udall’s key recommendations and make public the video of the Califf-Myers zoom call?

That won’t happen, of course, since Califf has total contempt for mere citizens. We’re just the “twitterati” in his words. So instead we will FOIA the video and display it here when we get our hands on it.

Just look at what Califf said publicly later that same day. Here, we’ll translate from bureaucrat-ese:
• LOL, except for my surreptitious meetings.
• TFK agitprop.
• Gimme moar monayyyy.

You know who else ought to be insulted by these shameless shenanigans? The people at Reagan-Udall who put good-faith hard work into investigating FDA’s flaming dumpster and exposing how it got set alight.

Califf didn’t take them seriously or appreciate their efforts. The very first thing he did after reading their findings was to convene a zoom call with the exact people that caused the disaster so they could all try to evade accountability. What a disgrace.