My ears weren’t burning but …
It seems that, while I was chairing a conference on the FDA’s Critical Path program (along with notables such as McClellan, Woodcock, and Temple), “Regulator-without-Portfolio†Steve Nissen was calling me names (“obscure flackâ€) and this blog (www.drugwonks.com) “vile.â€
And no one even called the hall monitor.
Well “vile†is in the eyes of the beholder – but better that then servile to the whims of the Patron Saint of Meta-Analysis. (The good news, however, is that (1) Dr. Nissen is reading drugwonks.com and (2) since his nasty comments our traffic has spiked. So, thanks Steve.)
Windhover’s Roger Longman offers this perspective on Steverino’s puerile bellyaching:
“In perhaps the most entertaining of talks, Regulator-without-Portfolio and Cleveland Clinic’s cardiovascular boss Steve Nissen blasted the FDA leadership for soulless toadying to industry. He started at the top with Andrew von Eschenbach – damned as a close Bush friend (admittedly, from our point of view, hardly a recommendation) and a “urologist†(an apparent reference to some religio-medical schema that blesses the cardiovascular as kosher and condemns the urological as treif) …
... There is also this odd fact: the Mafia which, the accusation goes, ran/runs FDA for the benefit of Republicans and Big Pharma, approved a mere trickle of new products while wrapping lots of existing ones with new warnings and restrictions. Were these Mammonites merely incompetent at serving their Master?â€
Roger’s complete musings can be found here …
http://therpmreport.com/Free/firsttake.aspx
For more on Dr. Nissen’s “issues†see here:
http://drugwonks.com/2007/06/nissens_plaque_problem.html
Cardiologists who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw epitaphs.
It seems that, while I was chairing a conference on the FDA’s Critical Path program (along with notables such as McClellan, Woodcock, and Temple), “Regulator-without-Portfolio†Steve Nissen was calling me names (“obscure flackâ€) and this blog (www.drugwonks.com) “vile.â€
And no one even called the hall monitor.
Well “vile†is in the eyes of the beholder – but better that then servile to the whims of the Patron Saint of Meta-Analysis. (The good news, however, is that (1) Dr. Nissen is reading drugwonks.com and (2) since his nasty comments our traffic has spiked. So, thanks Steve.)
Windhover’s Roger Longman offers this perspective on Steverino’s puerile bellyaching:
“In perhaps the most entertaining of talks, Regulator-without-Portfolio and Cleveland Clinic’s cardiovascular boss Steve Nissen blasted the FDA leadership for soulless toadying to industry. He started at the top with Andrew von Eschenbach – damned as a close Bush friend (admittedly, from our point of view, hardly a recommendation) and a “urologist†(an apparent reference to some religio-medical schema that blesses the cardiovascular as kosher and condemns the urological as treif) …
... There is also this odd fact: the Mafia which, the accusation goes, ran/runs FDA for the benefit of Republicans and Big Pharma, approved a mere trickle of new products while wrapping lots of existing ones with new warnings and restrictions. Were these Mammonites merely incompetent at serving their Master?â€
Roger’s complete musings can be found here …
http://therpmreport.com/Free/firsttake.aspx
For more on Dr. Nissen’s “issues†see here:
http://drugwonks.com/2007/06/nissens_plaque_problem.html
Cardiologists who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw epitaphs.
