Experts shocked to learn that the Center for disease Control has...

Experts shocked to learn that the Center for disease Control has been taking MILLIONS of dollars from Big Pharma. 

Why should you care?  well apart from big tobacco, Big pharma is the other huge threat to the future of vaping and e-cigs.  

The following is from http://ift.tt/1cpoKt8 

The US government’s Centers for Disease Control have been taking millions of dollars in drug company money in recent years, according to a news report in The British Medical Journal. Researchers in America and around the world expressed shock, and asked how the funding has been influencing CDC actions and decisions.

Maybe the actions like the recent report where the CDC was claiming a “Dramatic increase in e-cig related calls to the poison control center?”

Or when the CDC reported that “E-cigarette use triples among middle and high school students in just one year” 

Now i’m certainly not calling those reports bogus, Factually inaccurate? possibly.  Funded by one of vaping’s biggest opponents? strong possibility. 

The article goes on to say 

Jerome R Hoffman, a methodologist and emeritus professor of medicine at UCLA, told The BMJ, “Most of us were shocked to learn the CDC takes funding from industry. Of course it is outrageous that industry apparently is allowed to punish the CDC if the agency conducts research that has the potential to cut into profits. But it was our government that made this very bad arrangement, so the way to fix it is not to ask the CDC to ‘pretty please be more ethical, and avoid conflicts of interest’; rather, as a society, we have to get the government to reject this devil’s bargain, by changing the rules so this can no longer happen.” 

That industry apparently is allowed to punish the CDC if the agency conducts research that has the potential to cut into profits?!? wow, just wow.  I’m somewhat floored ( yet not surprised ) at that statement.  Certainly a PRO vaping report could certainly cut into the profits of pharmaceutical companies. 

Interesting information no?

-Grimm

Read the full article on madinamerica.com HERE

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