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FDA's Dangerous Deals With Reporters
The agency has every right to release information early to journalists, but not to limit reporting.
Journalists have needs, like junk food and editorial independence.
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Is the Food and Drug Administration manipulating what stories we get on its decisions?
That’s the suggestion of a new article in Scientific American on the ways that the FDA controls who sees information when, and how journalists can report on it. The practice sounds pretty scurrilous.