As a federal contractor who has had multiple consulting contracts at CDC, NIH and FDA.....
NOTHING in this article surprises me. I have seen what they do with cancer and HIV data. Its ugly. There are times if you wonder if they are just simply incompetent or they have an agenda. The cancer data in particular is sketchy, which is tragic si…
As a federal contractor who has had multiple consulting contracts at CDC, NIH and FDA.....
NOTHING in this article surprises me. I have seen what they do with cancer and HIV data. Its ugly. There are times if you wonder if they are just simply incompetent or they have an agenda. The cancer data in particular is sketchy, which is tragic since it is used in research and clinicians are supposed to be able to access it to see what treatments have worked on similar cases. The cancer tracking systems are fraught with political infighting between the states, whos health departments actually report the data to CDC, (do not get me started on how underfunded those agencies are and how their systems are messed up because of that and also just how few people they have to actually update and validate the data they do report when their system do actually work) and CDC and CDC and NIH. Never mind convincing labs and doctors to report to two different systems since CDC and NIH cannot agree on the format of the data they each have their own cancer reporting system and each is messed up.
Toss in the revolving door between NIH, FDA & CDC and the pharmaceutical companies and then toss in politics on top of that? It’s a wonder that anything useful comes out of these places even when the scientists are trying to do good science. Bloody tragic.
One thing you can be sure of, when money and politics collide with science, money and politics are gonna win every time.
As a federal contractor who has had multiple consulting contracts at CDC, NIH and FDA.....
NOTHING in this article surprises me. I have seen what they do with cancer and HIV data. Its ugly. There are times if you wonder if they are just simply incompetent or they have an agenda. The cancer data in particular is sketchy, which is tragic since it is used in research and clinicians are supposed to be able to access it to see what treatments have worked on similar cases. The cancer tracking systems are fraught with political infighting between the states, whos health departments actually report the data to CDC, (do not get me started on how underfunded those agencies are and how their systems are messed up because of that and also just how few people they have to actually update and validate the data they do report when their system do actually work) and CDC and CDC and NIH. Never mind convincing labs and doctors to report to two different systems since CDC and NIH cannot agree on the format of the data they each have their own cancer reporting system and each is messed up.
Toss in the revolving door between NIH, FDA & CDC and the pharmaceutical companies and then toss in politics on top of that? It’s a wonder that anything useful comes out of these places even when the scientists are trying to do good science. Bloody tragic.
One thing you can be sure of, when money and politics collide with science, money and politics are gonna win every time.