Gottlieb Joins Pfizer

After leaving his job as FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb has accepted a part time position to help pay the bills. The ex-FDA boss has been elected to the board of directors at the third largest pharmaceutical company in the world, Pfizer Inc., manufacturer of the quit-smoking drug Chantix.

The move surprised almost no one. According to STAT News, during the last 38 years every FDA commissioner but one (David Kessler) served on a pharma board after leaving public service. And why not? Who would be more attractive to a company that sold more than $53 billion worth of drugs in 2018, as Pfizer did, than someone who until a few months ago created FDA policy and intimately knows the regulatory strategies of the Trump administration? Gottlieb will also serve on the board’s regulatory and compliance and science and technology committees.

For conspiracy fans, Gottlieb is joining the pharma company that makes the world’s best selling non-nicotine quit-smoking medication. Pfizer markets varenicline in the U.S. as Chantix, and elsewhere in the world as Champix. Vapor products are in direct competition for smoking customers with Chantix, and they’re cheaper, more attractive to smokers, and not known for creating suicidal thoughts and nightmares.

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