that site is garbage, "Natural News" with that name you know is going to be dumb. They have articles about not giving vaccines to infants/children as well as other garbage articles going against any non-natural medicine.
The article says FDA and pharmaceutical companies meet often, which is necessary, and that FDA employees often work in pharmaceutical companies as well at different points in their career. No ****, both jobs are similar and require the same knowledge/expertise. The federal government pays **** regardless of what organization you work for, most people move on to work in pharmaceutical jobs/private sector jobs when they realize the huge pay gap. There is no shortage of jobs in pharmaceutical companies, hence why they pay over 150k a year for research positions and such, so it isn't like the companies are threatening not to give them jobs unless they force them to publish biased studies, these companies are trying to take up anyone who is willing to work because it costs so much to play these skilled employees. There is actually a surplus of jobs in the industry which drives up the cost of labour
The profits from propecia/finasteride is peanuts compared to other drugs out there, if they hypothetically wanted to rig a study they would have done it with more profitable drugs with more severe side effects to cover up. Especially since the patent ran out, there is even less money to be made....
