Regulatory Capture, Recovery, 400 Million Solo Cups, Vigor, and Vice
"Health agencies had put regulatory capture on steroids. The CDC, for example, owns 57 vaccine patents1 and spends $4.9 of its $12.0 billion-dollar annual budget (as of 2019) buying and distributing vaccines.2,3 NIH owns hundreds of vaccine patents and often profits from the sale of products it supposedly regulates. In addition, high-level officials, in…
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