Af­ter talk­ing to Trump about top FDA job, Bal­a­ji Srini­vasan erased his barbed crit­i­cism of the drug agency

Bit­coin en­tre­pre­neur and close Pe­ter Thiel as­so­ciate Bal­a­ji Srini­vasan has long en­joyed tak­ing to Twit­ter to poke the FDA for be­ing too slow at ap­prov­ing new ther­a­pies. By his ac­count, the agency was guilty of con­sid­er­able harm. But late Fri­day night, af­ter news of his meet­ing on Thurs­day with Don­ald Trump for a top job at the agency spread like dig­i­tal wild­fire, his Twit­ter stream and FDA com­men­tary all dis­ap­peared in the blink of an eye.

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