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Richard Bruns - Inside the FDA
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Richard Bruns - Inside the FDA

Pushing the Limits of Bureaucracy and Rationality
Brian Chau
Nov 07, 2022
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Richard Bruns is an economist who worked on cost-benefit for the FDA and now works at a biosecurity organization funded by the Open Philanthropy Foundation.

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