FDA Mangers Earn Bonuses while Americans Die

The Washington Post reports that FDA managers are given preference for bonuses over technical and scientific staff, a practice that has been going on while the very same managers have been actively hiding safety data from the public and failing to act to inform the public when a drug is known to have an increased risk of death as a side effect.

Examples include Vioxx, Avandia, Ketek, and Trasylol. How long before the public demands criminal charges brought against FDA management when they overrule their own scientists and safety experts and expose Americans to needless injury and death? I don’t think bonuses are the answer. I wonder if any managers at the FDA noticed that China recently executed the former head of its FDA for far less.