Country's Top Vaccine Expert Quits and Flames RFK Jr.'s 'Misinformation and Lies'

[babylonsister]

Politics
Country’s Top Vaccine Expert Quits and Flames RFK Jr.’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
TRUTHS AND CONSEQUENCES
Dr. Peter Marks submitted his resignation on Friday after being given the choice to resign or be fired.
Catherine Bouris
Updated Mar. 29 2025 3:18AM EDT
Published Mar. 28 2025 10:22PM EDT

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In his resignation letter, addressed to acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner, Marks wrote, “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,” referring to newly installed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

He continued, “My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation comes to an end.”

In response to his resignation letter, an HHS spokesperson said, “If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at [the] FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy.”

Marks had served as the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research since 2016, and had been working at the FDA since 2012. He played an important role in establishing Operation Warp Speed, the program designed to oversee the development, manufacture, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, although he left shortly after its launch, instead focusing on his work as chief regulator of vaccines.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-fda-vaccine-official-resigns-citing-misinformation-and-lies/

[Lovie777]

1. How many needlessly will suffer, die because of this psychopath...........

in the mist of psychopaths in the US current government.

[paleotn]

7. Some will suffer and die yet still blame Dems, Libs, immigrants...but not the actual culprits.....

We saw this during Covid.

[Gimpyknee]

11. Trump picks "only the best".

[spanone]

2. Robert Kennedy jr.s entire presence is simply to trigger the libs...

and kill as many children and adults as possible.

THIS IS FUCKING INSANE.

[BonnieJW]

3. As of today

There is no Covid booster or flu shot in the works for this year. Maybe this is eloon's solution to ending social security payments

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Please tell me that not a single

Democrat voted for him as Secretary of HHS.

[orleans]

13. okay, i'll tell you that not a single dem voted for him

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/02/13/rfk-jr-senate-confirmation-vote-count-health-secretary/

no paywall: https://archive.is/oL8ez

and before it went to senate the committee vote:

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday voted to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump.

The panel voted along party lines, 14-13.

It was a high-stakes vote for Kennedy, as with the committee’s makeup it would have taken just one Republican to oppose him for his nomination to be potentially sunk.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-faces-high-stakes-vote-bid-become/story?id=118413322

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. Thank you.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I'm sure he will get a ton of job offers from sane countries.

[Martin Eden]

6. Qualified people are losing their jobs. How many will lose their lives as a result?

All of this is made possible by the "pro-life" party.

Their anti-abortion fervor, other than vile patriarchy, is a high horse of false morality. These faux "christians" believe they've bought their ticket to heaven, giving them license to freely engage in hate, cruelty, bigotry in all its forms, and greed with a feckless disregard for innocent lives that will be destroyed.

[GiqueCee]

10. I believe the "feckless disregard"...

... is a feature, not a bug. They get off on it. Reminds me of those Enron shitgibbons that laughed and bragged about all the grannies that would freeze to death, or suffocate for lack of oxygen, because of their evil manipulation of the power grid in California, and other western states.

[GiqueCee]

8. I wonder if...

... that HHS spokesweasel kisses its children with those lying lips. Sycophancy of that repulsive magnitude must be in great demand these days.

[Paladin]

9. Blessings upon Dr. Marks.

What a tragedy that Marks is not in charge of national medical policy, and that we are instead at the mercy of the least qualified government health official in this country's history. 500 years from now, academics will still be looking back at what the United States was subjected to in 2025---and they'll still be shaking their heads.

[cynical_idealist]

17. If there's anyone left...

[wolfie001]

12. Overdosing on Vitamin A is just one more example of this jackass's stupidity

So self-important. Fired from his Manhattan DA office for using heroin. What a f6cking imbecile. Only got the job cause he's a Kennedy. Faming POS.

[cbabe]

14. "... restoring science to its golden standard ..."

Fools gold.

[Timeflyer]

15. "Engineered incompetence" is the term R. Ben-Ghiat uses for Trump's Cabinet picks.

"Authoritarian states abound with examples of engineered incompetence, when leaders appoint individuals to Cabinet positions who lack the skill set and high-level connections needed to succeed. This makes those individuals more dependent on the leader and creates more space for the leader's powerful cronies to influence the institution to their own benefit."

[canetoad]

19. What a succinct

And fitting phrase: engineered incompetence.

[TommieMommy]

18. That's scary. I always got my flu shot and covid booster every fall. I don't think I will this year