John Oliver dissected the medical devices industry Sunday on “Last Week Tonight,” and you’ll never look at 2015 movie “Chappie” the same way again. We’ll explain.
While getting into the dangers of the FDA’s clearance (vs. approval) process, Oliver pointed to the example of DePuy Synthes, a Johnson & Johnson company which made and sold a metal on metal hip replacement. It was shaped like previously OK’d devices, but was manufactured with the far less forgiving material.
“It turns out that when metal rubs against metal, bad things can happen,” Oliver said, “which sounds like the tagline for a movie about a masturbating robot.”