Food and Drug administration ridiculed online after pointing out that, actually, 47% of its funding comes from Big Pharma.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was mercilessly mocked online after attempting to fact-check Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that half of the agency’s funding comes from pharmaceutical companies.
In a pathetic attempt to dunk on RFK Jr., the FDA pointed out that Big Pharma was actually responsible for 47% of its funding, not 50%.
“This figure is not accurate as industry user fees only make up about 47% of the FDA’s total agency budget,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement.
You actually can’t make this up.
In response to the claim that 50% of the @US_FDA’s budget comes from pharma (a terrible incentive…), the agency released an official statement saying it is only 47%…
An executive order should be signed tomorrow making this 0. https://t.co/1UaePHO64F pic.twitter.com/QWgVURpq6r
— Calley Means (@calleymeans) August 25, 2024
Naturally, the FDA’s hair-splitting statement was ridiculed on social media.
“Your wife has slept with 100 dudes since you got married”
“Not true honey, only 96”
— Topo Gigio (@TopoGigio_sol) August 25, 2024
They probably would have been better off saying nothing.
— Ellie A (@EllieGAnders) August 25, 2024
Oh my God ?
We live in South Park
— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) August 25, 2024
Are you kidding me
They aren’t doing themselves any favors correcting that ?
— Chace Chambers (@ChamberofFit) August 25, 2024
Oh well…it’s only 47% thank god.
I feel much better now…?
— Vegas Mike (@mikemayfieldlv) August 25, 2024
“Not 50, 47.” Unreal. Unleash Bobby on these guys.
— Nick Gonino (@nickgonino) August 25, 2024
lol. Only 47%
Should be zero
— D’Shaun Maddeauxn X ?? (@1withdirt) August 25, 2024
RFK Jr. had previously claimed that “half” or “nearly half” of the FDA’s budget came from pharmaceutical companies.
More recently, Kennedy asserted that Big Pharma funding accounted for about 75% of the FDA’s budget.
Kennedy exposed the FDA’s conflict of interest Saturday on Fox News while explaining the harmful effects of seed oils, processed foods and pesticides used by the agriculture industry.
“The USDA, the FDA have been captured by the industries they’re supposed to regulate,” he said. “And they all have an interest in subsidies and then mass poisoning the American public.”
