Hard Truths About Mistruths: US FDA’s Califf Switching Gears On Misinformation Fight

 
• By Derrick Gingery

Fighting misinformation likely will not be successful, the FDA commissioner concedes, but stakeholders should join the campaign to increase the dissemination of truthful information.

Robert Califf at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf addressed many subjects during a session at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit. • Source: Derrick Gingery

Robert Califf has resigned himself to the fact that the US Food and Drug Administration’s strategy of waging a full-frontal assault on misinformation has to change.

Califf, the FDA’s commissioner, who began his second term wanting to fight the proliferation of incorrect and misleading information about vaccines and other medical products, admitted that simply countering the

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