More on the FDA...

It ain't getting any better... from the Center for American Progress:

The Wall Street Journal reports there's been a new casualty in the administration's assault on science. The Food and Drug Administration removed Curt D. Furberg, a professor at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, from an FDA advisory panel because he publicly questioned the safety of Pfizer Inc.'s painkiller Bextra. Furberg, a leading expert on drug analysis, was told "that he no longer will participate in the meeting in which the committee will examine the safety of Cox-2 inhibitors, the class of drugs that includes both Bextra and Vioxx, a painkiller that Merck & Co. recently withdrew from the market." Furberg was told by the FDA that his invitation was rescinded "because he was quoted in the New York Times as saying Bextra appeared similar to Vioxx and that Pfizer sought to suppress that information."