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Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA



It’s ironic how the loudest critics of RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement are the same ones cashing in while Americans’ health keeps deteriorating.


Where was he supposed to go to work? His background is infectious diseases. Where is he supposed to get a job? This is the dumbest thing I have heard. Blaming people for having an expertise and going where they can work. It's like complaining that pilots go to work for airlines after leaving the Military. Or Former Prosecutors get jobs with law firms to become defense attorneys. Idiots.
 
I am good with that. If you aren’t capable of actually engaging in an adult conversation I am fine with you relying on whatever makes you somehow feel superior. Even if it is foolishness. 🙃
Says the person whose well thought out and articulate "adult" response was:

That was the entire post.
 
Says the person whose well thought out and articulate "adult" response was:


That was the entire post.
I thought negative was fairly clear. Did you have to get your dictionary out to look for the definition?
 


It’s ironic how the loudest critics of RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement are the same ones cashing in while Americans’ health keeps deteriorating.


In other words a person knowledgeable in vaccines is working in the best possible place for him...

Got it.
 
I thought negative was fairly clear. Did you have to get your dictionary out to look for the definition?
If you aren’t capable of actually engaging in an adult conversation I am fine with you relying on whatever makes you somehow feel superior. Even if it is foolishness. 🙃
 
I am good with that. If you aren’t capable of actually engaging in an adult conversation I am fine with you relying on whatever makes you somehow feel superior. Even if it is foolishness. 🙃
Isn't that where the lefties here end up 99% of the time?
 
Where was he supposed to go to work? His background is infectious diseases. Where is he supposed to get a job? This is the dumbest thing I have heard. Blaming people for having an expertise and going where they can work. It's like complaining that pilots go to work for airlines after leaving the Military. Or Former Prosecutors get jobs with law firms to become defense attorneys. Idiots.
Its laughable you would defend the obvious corruption and the revolving door between pharmaceutical companies and the agencies that they are supposed to be regulating them. That's a conflict of interest.
 
Its laughable you would defend the obvious corruption and the revolving door between pharmaceutical companies and the agencies that they are supposed to be regulating them. That's a conflict of interest.

Where is he supposed to go to work? With all that experience is he supposed to take a job at McDonalds? You didn't answer my question, you just derided it. So where is he supposed to go work? He's going from one research facility to another.
 
Where is he supposed to go to work? With all that experience is he supposed to take a job at McDonalds? You didn't answer my question, you just derided it. So where is he supposed to go work? He's going from one research facility to another.
A university maybe. I don't care where but there shouldn't be a revolving door between the pharmaceutical companies and the agencies that are supposed to(but haven't) regulated those companies. Thats a conflict of interest which doesn't seem to bother you.
 


Article:

Grok summary of his article:

-Marks' Role in Vaccine Mishandling: Despite lacking vaccinology expertise, Marks accelerated COVID-19 vaccine approvals, pressured dissenting FDA scientists (e.g., Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, who resigned in protest), and concealed injury reports while publicly claiming vaccines were "safe and effective." Evidence includes his oversight of 22 gene therapy approvals (some controversial, like Sarepta's Elevidys, linked to a patient death) and his 2023 World Vaccine Congress keynote dismissing hesitancy as "crazy." His April 2025 resignation letter defends Warp Speed, boasts of reducing COVID morbidity (contradicted by data showing higher vaccine risks), and accuses HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of seeking "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies" rather than transparency.

-Fake Empathy and PR Tactics: Modern medicine relies on scripted empathy (e.g., "I'm sorry to hear that") due to time pressures and insurance incentives, rooted in Edward Bernays' early 20th-century PR strategies that prioritize sellable narratives over facts. Examples include YouTuber Dr. Mike's "empathetic" debates with anti-vaxxers, which use unchallenged falsehoods (e.g., VAERS overreports injuries, despite a 2011 AHRQ study showing <1% reporting rate) and gaslighting victims. Marks exemplified this by stonewalling vaccine-injured groups like React19, using excuses like "correlation is not causation" and blaming healthcare failures, while privately assuring care but publicly prioritizing mandates.

-Regulatory Evasion and Injury Denial: Drawing from React19 documents and timelines (2020–2022), the article details ignored signals: NIH confirmed mRNA reactions in December 2020 but published a flawed July 2021 study attributing issues to "functional neurological disorder" (stress). Marks dismissed severe cases (e.g., AIDS-like illnesses, paraplegia) in meetings, lied about reviewing Pfizer data to Robert Malone, and suppressed DNA contamination concerns. This "regulatory blindness" is likened to a cult, where proponents avoid debates (e.g., Peter Hotez rejecting $2.5 million offers) to evade scrutiny, a shift from pre-1997 media exposés on vaccine risks.

-Historical Context: The FDA's 1906 origins under Harvey Wiley (who fought adulterated food/drugs but was ousted by lobbyists) contrast with today's industry capture. Pre-FTC pharma ad legalization, vaccine debates were common; post, they've been embargoed under "public health" pretexts.
 
A university maybe. I don't care where but there shouldn't be a revolving door between the pharmaceutical companies and the agencies that are supposed to(but haven't) regulated those companies. Thats a conflict of interest which doesn't seem to bother you.

A University? Tell me what Trump did within the first Month of taking office again? Cutting all that money for University Research wasn't it? So the only research left is FDA/CDC and Private, read that to be Corporations who can afford to spend the money on long term research programs for a profit on the other end, companies.

You decry the revolving door and then make sure there are no other places that the guy can go to. Well I suppose he could go to work for a Foreign Nation. That would help America a lot more.

Several researchers have already relocated to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute. So how many knowledgable people should we surrender to make you happy? Half of them? Any who ever worked at the Government FDA or CDC? It's one thing to be dumb about an issue, it's another to be stubbornly stupid.
 


Article:

Grok summary of his article:

-Marks' Role in Vaccine Mishandling: Despite lacking vaccinology expertise, Marks accelerated COVID-19 vaccine approvals, pressured dissenting FDA scientists (e.g., Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, who resigned in protest), and concealed injury reports while publicly claiming vaccines were "safe and effective." Evidence includes his oversight of 22 gene therapy approvals (some controversial, like Sarepta's Elevidys, linked to a patient death) and his 2023 World Vaccine Congress keynote dismissing hesitancy as "crazy." His April 2025 resignation letter defends Warp Speed, boasts of reducing COVID morbidity (contradicted by data showing higher vaccine risks), and accuses HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of seeking "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies" rather than transparency.

-Fake Empathy and PR Tactics: Modern medicine relies on scripted empathy (e.g., "I'm sorry to hear that") due to time pressures and insurance incentives, rooted in Edward Bernays' early 20th-century PR strategies that prioritize sellable narratives over facts. Examples include YouTuber Dr. Mike's "empathetic" debates with anti-vaxxers, which use unchallenged falsehoods (e.g., VAERS overreports injuries, despite a 2011 AHRQ study showing <1% reporting rate) and gaslighting victims. Marks exemplified this by stonewalling vaccine-injured groups like React19, using excuses like "correlation is not causation" and blaming healthcare failures, while privately assuring care but publicly prioritizing mandates.

-Regulatory Evasion and Injury Denial: Drawing from React19 documents and timelines (2020–2022), the article details ignored signals: NIH confirmed mRNA reactions in December 2020 but published a flawed July 2021 study attributing issues to "functional neurological disorder" (stress). Marks dismissed severe cases (e.g., AIDS-like illnesses, paraplegia) in meetings, lied about reviewing Pfizer data to Robert Malone, and suppressed DNA contamination concerns. This "regulatory blindness" is likened to a cult, where proponents avoid debates (e.g., Peter Hotez rejecting $2.5 million offers) to evade scrutiny, a shift from pre-1997 media exposés on vaccine risks.

-Historical Context: The FDA's 1906 origins under Harvey Wiley (who fought adulterated food/drugs but was ousted by lobbyists) contrast with today's industry capture. Pre-FTC pharma ad legalization, vaccine debates were common; post, they've been embargoed under "public health" pretexts.


VAERS......
 
Its laughable you would defend the obvious corruption and the revolving door between pharmaceutical companies and the agencies that they are supposed to be regulating them. That's a conflict of interest.
What, did you expect dude to go home and starve to death?
 
A University? Tell me what Trump did within the first Month of taking office again? Cutting all that money for University Research wasn't it? So the only research left is FDA/CDC and Private, read that to be Corporations who can afford to spend the money on long term research programs for a profit on the other end, companies.
That's not true that there isn't any more research at universities anymore.
You decry the revolving door and then make sure there are no other places that the guy can go to. Well I suppose he could go to work for a Foreign Nation. That would help America a lot more.
Nobody is restricting where that big pharma shill works. Once again you have no problem with the obvious conflict of interest, but your concern only lies with where that horrible excuse for a person works?

Why aren't you more concerned with where someone who served big pharma at the FDA works afterwards instead of decisions being made with public health in mind instead of whatever will make the pharmaceutical companies more money?
Several researchers have already relocated to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute. So how many knowledgable people should we surrender to make you happy? Half of them? Any who ever worked at the Government FDA or CDC? It's one thing to be dumb about an issue, it's another to be stubbornly stupid.
We have the biggest chronic disease epidemic in the entire world. Why should anyone care about those people who oversaw that chronic disease epidemic expanding dramatically and did nothing other than increase big pharma profits?
 
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That's not true that there isn't any more research at universities anymore.

Nobody is restricting where that big pharma shill works. Once again you have no problem with the obvious conflict of interest, but your concern only lies with where that horrible excuse for a person works?

Why are you more concerned with where someone who served big pharma at the FDA works afterwards instead of decisions being made with public health in mind instead of whatever will make the pharmaceutical companies more money?

We have the biggest chronic disease epidemic in the entire world. Why should anyone care about those people who oversaw that chronic disease epidemic expanding dramatically and did nothing other than increase big pharma profits?

Yeah. I'm sure that's what they keep telling you on Fox News.


Don't let facts get in the way. Research now is being funded by Corporations and Private Grants. How many private grants do you think there are?

So Corporations are the last thing left.

A conflict of interest. Interesting. Since the medications developed get tested, and get subjected to peer reviews. They're published and other scientists check the results. It isn't Ford going I swear to God the Sergeant York works to shoot down aircraft. Give us more money and we'll make it work. Trust us.

Others go behind and check the work. Other experts. Other scientists. Then Doctors on the front lines read the information and apply their own knowledge to it. I'm not saying that they don't make mistakes. But I can't imagine another system that would work better. Other Systems get us a lot of stuff that just doesn't work. A few billion dollars wasted to find out the entire idea was dumb to begin with. No checks and no repercussions.
 
Yeah. I'm sure that's what they keep telling you on Fox News.


Don't let facts get in the way. Research now is being funded by Corporations and Private Grants. How many private grants do you think there are?

So Corporations are the last thing left.
Just because there have been cuts doesn't mean there is zero research being funded by the federal government.

The total federal R&D funding to universities is estimated at $48–55 billion even with the cuts.
A conflict of interest. Interesting. Since the medications developed get tested, and get subjected to peer reviews. They're published and other scientists check the results. It isn't Ford going I swear to God the Sergeant York works to shoot down aircraft. Give us more money and we'll make it work. Trust us.
The peer review process has been corrupted as well.


Others go behind and check the work. Other experts. Other scientists. Then Doctors on the front lines read the information and apply their own knowledge to it. I'm not saying that they don't make mistakes. But I can't imagine another system that would work better. Other Systems get us a lot of stuff that just doesn't work. A few billion dollars wasted to find out the entire idea was dumb to begin with. No checks and no repercussions.
Do you remember Francesca Gino? She was a tenured professor at Harvard Business School & she was known for her research on dishonesty and ethical behavior,. Her work was peer reviews and recently found to be fraudulent.

 
Just because there have been cuts doesn't mean there is zero research being funded by the federal government.

The total federal R&D funding to universities is estimated at $48–55 billion even with the cuts.

The peer review process has been corrupted as well.



Do you remember Francesca Gino? She was a tenured professor at Harvard Business School & she was known for her research on dishonesty and ethical behavior,. Her work was peer reviews and recently found to be fraudulent.



Why are you even commenting on this world? Isn't there a thread on quantum mechanics you can weigh in on?
 
Yep. And I'll be pointing out your complete lack of qualifications on all subjects scientific.
Someone who has to keep mentioning they are an expert obviously isn't an expert. Based on your posts and how you are unable to refute things specifically while you stick to vague statements I'll continue to laugh at your supposed expertise.
 
Someone who has to keep mentioning they are an expert obviously isn't an expert. Based on your posts and how you are unable to refute things specifically while you stick to vague statements I'll continue to laugh at your supposed expertise.

While you spam X and refuse to learn beyond that website.
 
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