Fact checking Dr John Campbell’s Big Pharma funding claims

Dr John Campbell loves a conspiracy. One of his latest is claiming that regulatory agencies like the FDA, TGA, EMA, and MHRA are being influenced by funding from the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma). In this video, Dr Susan Oliver fact checks his claim and finds that it is, as usual, misinformation, and the truth is more mundane.
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Links to studies:

TGA: Fees and charges: summary from 1 July 2022
https://www.tga.gov.au/fees-and-charges-summary-1-july-2022

Parsing clinical success rates
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2016.136

Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history