Christy Leppanen Presents Agents of the Current Thinking

About this event

Join us at Subtext Books on Friday, November 13th from 7 - 8 PM to hear from Christy Leppanen, author of Agents of the Current Thinking. Agents of the Current Thinking is a first-hand account of wrongdoing at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, our federal agency tasked with protecting our public health. In 2009, the Tobacco Control Act extended its purview to tobacco products. Then in 2019, scientists at its Center for Tobacco Products were directed to "eyeball" data, and leadership retaliated when they objected. In 2022, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel disclosed that wrongdoing and the agency was supposed to, but didn’t, self-correct. Instead, it continued unscientific, uninformed, and misleading arguments in its role to regulate tobacco products. In 2025, scientists still faced retaliation, complicit leadership said, “for asking too many questions” while trying to follow the law. So, despite increasing concerns about the health effects of microplastics, the FDA allowed the fir

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• Christy LeppanenAuthor
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Subtext Bookstore

6 West 5th St.

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