and miles to go before I sleep...

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I re-found the initial report I'd read a few nights ago about this Horse Doctor the FDA appointed to Womens' health. It was here at Thomas Paine.com

Here's yet another indication that no one is running the show in our federal government: A Washington Post article today explains how, last week, the FDA appointed one Dr. Norris Alderson, a veterinarian, to the post of director of the Office of Women's Health (vacated last month by Dr. Susan Wood). Then, a few days later, the FDA announced that a Theresa Toigo would be directing the Women's Health office—and refused to acknowledge that they had, in fact, named Alderson to the post a few days earlier.

So the FDA is denying the mix-up, but they can't deny the paper trail out there that they created—by sending an e-mail to women's organizations announcing Alderson's appointment. As Karen Pearl, director of Planned Parenthood, put it:

It appears something funny is going on at the FDA, and Planned Parenthood is not laughing. At a time when the FDA's credibility is already in question, these unusual announcements are troubling.

The folks at ThinkProgress were clever enough to check the Google cache of the FDA website—and found that, sure enough, Norris Alderson was listed as acting director of the women's health office. (It's since been removed, of course.)