Let me share a close, personal story about how joined at the hip the FDA and Big Pharma really are, notwithstanding the issues that I've endured in my effort to awake cancer solutions.
A local OKC man's (very, very wealthy) wife came down with a VERY rare cancer. This man dropped everything he was doing and dedicated his wealth and power solely toward saving his beloved wife. In the first year of his 1st Administration, Trump pushed through the "right to try" and "compassionate use" of non-approved drugs for anyone facing certain death. Anyone disagreeing with this is a satan in my opinion. How can you say to someone with certain death that they can't try anything if they want?
Unfortunately, both initiatives passed with the proviso that the FDA had to approve each such use. So the only FDA-approved drug that would help his wife would not cure her, but only "hopefully" buy her an additional 3 months of life. Through his network and huge expenditure of $, he uncovered a new drug inside a Canadian company that was specifically designed to cure her specific rare cancer.
So he applied to the FDA to invoke both "right to try" and "compassionate use," and you know what the FDA said? Your "right to try" and compassionate use can only be invoked once the US FDA approved drug fails, meaning by the time they can invoke it, she would be dead. Insane until you look at the history of senior leadership at Big Pharma and at the FDA. They are literally a revolving door of people. FDA leadership comes from Big Pharma. Big Pharma leadership requires previous leadership at the FDA. They are joined at the hip.
This one decision that I know is very real is a perfect example of the FDA protecting their brothers at Big Pharma. In reality they are all members of the same fraternity.
I used to be directly involved in new drug development ($250M Merrill Lynch VC fund directly targeting new drugs), and I can't begin to describe how disgusting the protection of Big Pharma was by the FDA. I could give dozens of examples, but not the least of which is that they allow Big Pharma to manipulate their clinical trial data for drug approval (the worst case of fox in the henhouse you will ever encounter, made worse by the fact it surrounds human health an life). The mutual fraternity remains in full swing.
