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Last week, just one week before the opening of Michael Moores new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) admitted what has been known for a while that its approval of the Menaflex device in December, 2008, came after intense political pressure from politicians made just months after they received significant campaign contributions from the manufacturer of Menaflex. In issuing its approval, the FDA overrode the agencys scientific reviewers who repeatedly and unanimously over many years decided that the device was unsafe because the device often failed, forcing patients to get another operation. This was the first time that the agency publicly questioned the process behind one of its approvals, admitted that a regulatory decision was influenced by politics, and accused a former commissioner of questionable cond