Rebecca Dresser | Plan B: Politics and Values at the FDA

Rebecca Dresser | Plan B: Politics and Values at the FDA, Again
Dresser discusses the curious case of Plan B emergency contraception and the FDA, when the drug was denied over-the-counter status even though sufficient data had been presented in its support. She compares this to other cases in which political pressure likely held sway and concludes that, while it is impossible to expect value-based judgments from interfering with science policy decisions, we should at least expect these values to be disclosed.
-Though the FDA claims to keep political considerations out of its decision-making process, drug-approval decisions are generally based on judgments about

A) science.
B) values.
C) funding.
D) both a and b