Captured Agencies: The Revolving Doors of Influence

10 février 2025

Did the Science Change—Or Did Most People Just Trust the Wrong $cientists?

Science is supposed to evolve with new discoveries. That’s progress.

But when public health policies shift overnight—always in favour of corporate interests—it raises the question:

🚨 Was the science evolving—or was it always about control?

The Revolving Door: When Regulators Become Industry Insiders

Regulatory agencies like the FDA and CDC are meant to protect public health. That’s the illusion.

Reality: These agencies are revolving doors, funnelling government officials into high-paid industry jobs—rewarding compliance instead of oversight.

💰 This isn’t speculation—it’s a well-documented pattern:

• Scott Gottlieb resigned as FDA Commissioner (2019). Two months later, he joined Pfizer’s board.

• Stephen Hahn, head of the FDA (2019-2021), left and took a job at Flagship Pioneering, the venture firm behind Moderna.

• A study cited by NPR found that between 2001-2010, 57% of FDA drug reviewers who left the agency went straight to Big Pharma.

This isn’t a coincidence. This is the business model.

The FDA: A Captured Agency

The FDA is supposed to be an independent regulator. That’s the myth.

🚨 Reality Check: Over half of the FDA’s budget comes directly from pharmaceutical companies.

💰 The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) allows Big Pharma to pay the FDA to “fast-track” drug approvals.

• In 1993, only 8% of the FDA’s budget came from drug company fees.

• Today, over 65% of its funding comes from the industry it’s supposed to regulate.

When the watchdog is funded by the corporations it’s supposed to police, you don’t get oversight—you get a pay-to-play scheme.

✔️ Rushed drug approvals.

✔️ Suppressed safety data.

✔️ Zero accountability for harmful products.

The CDC: Public Health Agency or Corporate PR Machine?

The CDC presents itself as a neutral public health organization.

🔎 But in 1995, it quietly created a nonprofit arm—the CDC Foundation.

💰 This allows private corporations to directly fund CDC initiatives.

🚨 Who funds the CDC Foundation?

Pfizer. Moderna. Merck. Johnson & Johnson. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

When the corporations selling the treatments are funding the policies that mandate them…

Are we looking at science—or corporate propaganda?

Public Health or Corporate Marketing?

The same psychological tactics used to sell cigarettes in the 1950s are now used to push pharmaceuticals, ultra-processed foods, and vaccines.

🔍 Tobacco Industry Playbook—Now Used by Big Pharma & Big Food:

✔️ “Experts” for hire – Industry funds its own research & hand-picks the scientists.

✔️ Fear as a sales tool – The media floods the public with worst-case scenarios to manufacture demand.

✔️ Censorship of dissent – Any challenge to the narrative is labeled “misinformation” and buried.

✔️ Government buy-in – Regulatory agencies promote products while ignoring independent studies.

If you question the system, you’re a conspiracy theorist.

If you comply, you’re a good citizen.

Sound familiar?

A Hard Truth & A Lifeline

Many struggle to admit they were misled. No one wants to believe they were lied to by the institutions they trusted.

But real intelligence isn’t blind faith—it’s the ability to change your mind when faced with new information.

🛑 Being deceived doesn’t mean you were ignorant. It means you trusted.

🔥 Adjusting your perspective isn’t weakness—it’s strength.

💡 Acknowledging the system is broken doesn’t mean rejecting science—it means demanding better.

How We Fix This

If we want public health to serve people—not corporations, we must demand:

✅ Full Transparency – All conflicts of interest in regulatory agencies must be publicly disclosed.

✅ Stronger Restrictions – Government officials should face longer cooling-off periods before jumping to industry jobs.

✅ Independent Oversight – The FDA & CDC must be free from corporate funding and subject to third-party audits.

The Future Is Ours to Shape

Regaining trust in science doesn’t mean blind obedience.

It means demanding integrity, transparency, and accountability.

The sooner we ask the hard questions, the sooner we can rebuild a system that serves people, not profits.

🚨 The science didn’t change.

🔥 The deception just became harder to ignore.

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