this is how we treat whistle blowers

Potentially Incompatible Goals at F.D.A. …By GARDINER HARRIS … New York Times … Published: June 11, 2007 … EXERPTED
Safety and speed are the yin and yang of drug regulation. Patients want immediate access to breakthrough medicines but also want to believe the drugs are safe.
These goals can be incompatible. Race a drug to market and much is likely to remain unknown when patients take it. Test a drug thoroughly to assess all possible risks and its release may be delayed by years.
A series of drug-safety scandals has led many on Capitol Hill to question whether the Food and Drug Administration has failed to strike the right balance between speed and safety. A clear sign of this imbalance, these critics say, is the increasing number of F.D.A. drug-safety officers who say they have been punished or ignored after uncovering dangers of popular medicines.
The latest to suffer this fate is Dr. Rosemary Johann-Liang, 42, who recommended more than a year ago that the diabetes drug Avandia carry the agency’s strongest possible safety warning for its effects on the heart.
“Mark told me that they were upset with our recommendation,” Dr. Johann-Liang recalled. “They decided to act like the review never happened.”
Dr. Avigan took over the supervision of the safety review of Avandia and Actos and told Dr. Johann-Liang that she could no longer approve strong safety recommendations without his say-so, she said. Over the next year, she was increasingly excluded from crucial safety reviews and meetings, which contributed to her decision to leave the agency on Friday, she said. In an interview, Dr. Avigan said that he did not intend to punish Dr. Johann-Liang.
At least four other F.D.A. safety reviewers in recent years have been punished or discouraged after uncovering similar drug dangers, according to Congressional investigations.

FDA “whistle-blowers” vs. speed and safety … your life could hang in the balance … !

Acting in the same stupor as Bush’s minions at EPA, his “corporate” sponsored toadies at FDA bury all findings and remarks not determined by “corporate” America to hold them in the best light or increase their bottom line.

Why are “we” willing to allow honest government employees acting to “serve and to protect” us to be vilified by our government…?

Remember when “we” allow our government to do it to them; we give them permission to do it to us.