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Food and Drug Administration Puts Pressure on Scientists to Keep Mouth Shut

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According to the results of a survey done by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the FDA pressures some scientists to change research data. And these scientists and researchers feel too intimidated to speak up.

“Of the 997 FDA scientists who responded to the survey, nearly one-fifth (18.4 percent) said that they "have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information or their conclusions in a FDA scientific document."

Press release link here.

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