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Zade's avatar

For the most part the captives aren't complaining, either. I suspect those who do are encouraged to find other employment. And old Turkish proverb: The fish starts to stink at the head. From personal experience, I know when an organization is toxic from bad upper management, the only way to fix it is to level it to the bottom and start all over.

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Regulatory capture is basically never unwilling; it always begins with soft (grants) or hard (cash under table) bribery.

As far as "encouraged to find other employment," notice that two senior FDA officials quit during COVID for "unspecified reasons" during the emergency approval phase of vaccines.

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Zade's avatar

Thus the toxic garden weeds out the fruitful plants, and leaves the crab grass to run things to suit itself.

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