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SUMMARY:Christy Leppanen Presents Agents of the Current Thinking
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Subtext Books on Friday\, November 13th from 7 - 8
  PM to hear from Christy Leppanen\, author of Agents of the Current Thin
 king. Agents of the Current Thinking is a first-hand account of wrongdoi
 ng at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\, our federal agency tasked 
 with protecting our public health. In 2009\, the Tobacco Control Act ext
 ended its purview to tobacco products. Then in 2019\, scientists at its 
 Center for Tobacco Products were directed to "eyeball" data\, and leader
 ship 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\, des
 pite increasing concerns about the health effects of microplastics\, the
  FDA allowed the fir\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/2e8fc972-adb1-
 47df-91f4-bf384bb9b87d
LOCATION:Subtext Bookstore\, 6 West 5th St.
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/2e8fc972-adb1-47df-91f4-bf384bb9b87
 d
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