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Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb

Robert Califf’s FDA with Maddie Bannon

Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

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4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Whitney is joined by Maddie Bannon to discuss FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and his role in removing regulatory obstacles for the "healthcare" related wearable, implantable devices and other emerging technologies seen as crucial to the advance of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

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Follow Maddie: TLAVagabond Substack, Manufacturing Reality, @llspacejellyll

Originally published 04/03/23.

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0:00.0

Hey and welcome to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host, Whitney Webb. For a little over a year,

0:05.6

the American Food and Drug Administration or FDA has been led by a man named Robert Caliph. Very few

0:11.5

people seem to know much about Caliph or his background, and there is very little critical reporting

0:16.2

on this man, despite the power he currently wields over significant aspects of American public health policy.

0:22.3

During his confirmation hearings last year, there were a few stories here and there,

0:26.3

noting Caleb's investments in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, as well as his

0:30.4

longstanding ties to big pharma and how this might present a conflict of interest.

0:34.7

Yet there is a deeper problem with Caliph that goes far beyond these conflicts of

0:38.6

interest that more often than not are the norm within the U.S. federal government and on Capitol Hill.

0:44.3

This is Caliph's second stint as FDA commissioner, having previously held the post toward the end of

0:49.5

Barack Obama's second term. After he left that position when Donald Trump took office in early 2017,

0:55.7

Caliph joined Google, becoming the Silicon Valley Giants top strategist for its forays into

1:01.0

health care, specifically for Google's health-focused subsidiary, Verily Life Sciences. Ever since then,

1:07.1

Caliph has been at the vanguard of the effort to kickstart the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, or 4-I.R. in health care, and this has extended into the decisions he has overseen over the past year as head of the FDA. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kalef himself is a major evangelist for the 4-I.R. in health care and is on record, stating that he shared the 4-I.R. vision of World Economic Forum

1:28.5

Chairman Klaus Schwab well before his notoriety during the COVID era. Her Schwab and his allies,

1:34.0

the 4-I.R, particularly as it relates to health care, is about the merging of our physical,

1:39.3

digital, and biological selves, essentially transhumanism by a different name.

1:49.7

Troulingly, as FDA Commissioner, KALF is already creating regulatory loopholes for devices that will bring this dark vision to fruition, including brain machine interfaces, neuromodulation

1:54.8

devices and surveillance wearables, among others. He is also doing the same with other

1:59.7

for IR health-focused technologies, including

2:01.9

gene therapies and much more. For those Americans who are concerned about the push to inject the

2:07.5

4-I.R. into the American healthcare system and into our bodies, Robert Caliph is the man to watch.

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