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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “FDA gets 50% of its budget from the pharmaceutical companies…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 43:27

You have all of these agencies that are captured, but I know you know on each of those agencies how to unravel corporate Capture. For example, FDA gets 50% of its budget from the pharmaceutical companies and other industries that it regulates. We need to end that. NIH scientists collect, and NIH itself collect royalties on drugs they developed. (43:27–43:34)

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Asserts that half of the FDA's budget comes from the industries it is supposed to regulate.

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