It's the Wolfe!

IN VIVO writes:

On August 8, FDA made long-time consumer advocate and pharma gadfly Sidney Wolfe (pic) a permanent four-year member of the Drug Safety & Risk Management Advisory Committee. His term began August 8 and lasts through May 31, 2012. The information was only recently posted publicly by the agency.

Wolfe has headed Public Citizen's Health Research Group for 36 years. There are only a handful of products during that period with safety issues, where the issues were not brought to the public attention by Wolfe. He earned a MacArthur genius award in 1990 acknowledging his ability to use the political/media/regulatory system to question the safety and use of pharmaceuticals.