Top F.D.A. Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy's 'Misinformation and Lies'

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Source: New York Times

By Christina JewettSheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland
March 28, 2025
Updated 10:14 p.m. ET

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.

“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. Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the agency’s acting commissioner.

Dr. Marks resigned under pressure, according to a person familiar with the matter who said an official with the Department of Health and Human Services told Dr. Marks on Friday that he could either resign or be fired.

Hours earlier in West Virginia, Mr. Kennedy asserted that Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30 percent of those who died early in the pandemic did not have underlying conditions. Mr. Kennedy has also extolled the value of vitamin A as a treatment during a major measles outbreak in Texas, while downplaying the value of vaccines. On Thursday, he announced that he was creating a new office to study vaccine injuries.

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[NoMoreRepugs]

1. In other news during a routine check of RFK Jr's brain for worms doctors

found a perfect vacuum.

[Dan]

2. This administration,

Trump’s Cabinet with the GOP Congress is going to kill a lot of people, not only here in America, but in the rest of the world. But, you have to give it to the Trump supporters and enablers, as long as they are not killed in the process they are okay with it.

The MAGA crowd are psychopaths, each and every damn one.

[Irish_Dem]

5. MAGAs don't even seem to care if they get killed.

Or their children. They do it all for Dear Leader.

Yes they all psychopaths.

[BlueSpot]

3. We are going to be so sick next winter

If not sooner.

Don't even want to think of the death toll.

[LisaL]

9. There is always bleach.

[riversedge]

4. We all knew we were in deep trouble when RFJ JR-the anti-vacine man was appointed by Trump!!

Top FDA vaccine official forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s "misinformation and lies."
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5344010/fda-peter-marks-rfk-jr

March 28, 202511:36 PM ET
Rob Stein, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC.



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The abrupt departure comes as concern has been rising among many public health experts about moves involving vaccines under Kennedy, who has questioned vaccine safety and effectiveness. An independent vaccine advisory committee meeting was cancelled, the National Institutes of Health has terminated research on vaccine resistance and misinformation and a vaccine critic has been picked to conduct a controversial study about vaccines and autism – a link that has long been debunked.

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"Peter Marks is one of the most brilliant, dedicated scientists and public servants," wrote Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health who served as President Biden's COVID-19 response coordinator.

Marks said he is leaving the agency with "a heavy heart."

"I leave behind a staff of professionals who are undoubtedly the most devoted to protecting and promoting the public health of any group of people that I have encountered," he wrote.

[groundloop]

6. I hate that good people who might have provided honest criticism are leaving

I can't blame anyone for not wanting to work in that toxic atmosphere, bud damn it sucks that so many good people who might otherwise provide push-back against misinformation are leaving. I'm sure magats are very proud of themselves.

[LisaL]

8. Per the article, he was given a choice between resigning and being fired.

So he was forced to resign.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. We're fucked