Under the strong leadership

Bad Kennedy is converting the FDA to a center for quackery.

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator was forced out of the agency Friday and sharply criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his boss at the Department of Health and Human Services.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Dr. Peter Marks wrote in his letter of resignation, which was obtained by NPR.

Marks has long steered the FDA’s regulation of vaccines as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. He became especially well known during the first Trump administration for his work with Operation Warp Speed, which was credited with the fast development of COVID-19 vaccines.

Well there you go – vaccines. He should have said eat more oatmeal and wear a snakeskin around your left ankle.

In response to Mark’s resignation, an HHS official released a statement that if Marks “does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy.”

Wow. More poisonous every day.

“Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation’s health, safety. and security,” Marks wrote in his resignation letter to Sara Brenner, acting commissioner of food and drugs.

The announcement was met with disappointment by other doctors.

“In forcing Peter Marks to resign, RFK Jr. is now the wolf guarding the hen house,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at the University of Pennsylvania and long-time FDA advisor who directs the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Wolves guarding hen houses = what Trump and co are all about.

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9 responses to “Under the strong leadership”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Sorry, Utah, no healthy teeth for your kids.

    Utah has become the first US state to ban the use of fluoride in its public water, following concerns raised by health secretary Robert F Kennedy that the mineral poses potential health risks….[The] concern over fluoride was previously raised by Kennedy, [who] alleged the chemical found in toothpaste and regularly used by dentists “is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease”.

    What do the people who actually know things say about those claims

    Most public health experts have rejected these claims..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99o.amp

  2. Jim Baerg Avatar

    BTW there is an episode on vaccines on Brian Dunning’s Skeptoid podcast.

    https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4981

    I like the t-shirt in the photo at the top.

    “Vaccines Cause Adults”

  3. Bjarte Foshaug Avatar
    Bjarte Foshaug

    AoS #1

    He can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

  4. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Not to mention children’s ice cream.

  5. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    Well excessive levels of fluoride are bad but that’s also true of most/all of his favorite remedies. It’s extremely important to keep putting it into toothpaste and topical treatments because that’s how it’s most effective.

    Oddly he doesn’t mention what *over* fluoridation does to teeth… dental fluorosis is a problem in areas with naturally fluoridated water.

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Ice cream, Mandrake – children’s ice cream.

  7. iknklast Avatar

    BKiSA, of course. Water is bad in excessive amounts. Some things, though, are bad in even small amounts. Raw meat can be one of those. I wonder if that’s how Kennedy got the worm in his brain?

  8. maddog1129 Avatar

    What’s the difference between children’s ice cream and any other kind of ice cream? Is all ice cream children’s ice cream? What does Donnie Two-Scoops say, since he’s the biggest child I know of who eats ice cream?

  9. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Ah you see that’s General Jack Ripper pouring on the emotive manipulation when he lectures Group Captain Lionel Mandrake about the worldwide communist etc etc etc.