Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s stacked FDA advisory council endorses multicancer screening test from ethically- questionable company that would increase false positives and waste billions of dollars STAT News | October 16, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/16/viewpoint-rfk-jr-s-stacked-fda-advisory-council-endorses-multicancer-screening-test-from-ethically-questionable-company-that-would-increase-false-positives-and-waste-billions-of-dollars/ Grail’s Galleri multicancer blood test flunked its own big trial, and an FDA advisory panel recommended approving it anyway. That’s the case made by H. Gilbert Welch, a physician and cancer screening researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Center for Surgery and Public Health, in an opinion essay for STAT News.