According to the Associated Press, “Ex-official [Peter Marks] says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.”
(“Protect,” as we’ll learn, is a euphemism here for “hide”; “thwart”; “obfuscate.”)
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Via Associated Press (emphasis added):
Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation’s top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted.
In an interview with The Associated Press, former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks discussed his efforts to “make nice” with Kennedy and address his longstanding concerns about vaccine safety, including by developing a “vaccine transparency action plan.”
Marks agreed to give Kennedy’s associates the ability to read thousands of reports of potential vaccine-related issues sent to the government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. But he would not allow them to directly edit the data.
Who the hell does this guy think he is?
The TL;DR here is: duly appointed and confirmed HHS secretary demands access to data clearly within his purview, subject to his jurisdiction, and some career bureaucrat decides he’s not going to hand it over because he doesn’t feel like it.
But instead of reporting it accurately, as I just did in a short paragraph, the lying corporate state media paints a picture, contorting itself into unreal tangles, of some kind of heroic stand against fascism or whatever.
This has to be an actionable crime committed by Marks.
Continuing:
During his Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy told lawmakers he is not “antivaccine.” But since taking office, he’s promised to “investigate” children’s shots*, and agencies under his watch have terminated vaccine-related research, canceled meetings of vaccine advisers and are poised to reinvestigate ties between vaccines and autism — a link debunked long ago.
Since being sworn in, “Mr. Kennedy has increased the pace by which he intends to minimize the use of vaccines in this country,” Marks said…
Marks says he “tried everything” to work with Kennedy. At the center of that effort was a plan to increase publicly available information about vaccine ingredients, safety and side effects.
Marks and his team had hoped to kick off the initiative with a two-day public “listening session,” followed by an expert report written by an independent organization, such as the National Academies of Sciences.
*Note the placement of “investigate” in quotation marks, planting in the reader’s mind that there’s some ulterior motive at play when RFK Jr. pledges to investigate vaccine safety using actual placebo-controlled studies, which has never happened.
The VAERS system, for the record, is a sick joke (no pun intended). By credible estimates, because filing claims is made intentionally difficult for laypeople and doctors are often actively discouraged from making them, it actually only captures around 1% of total, real-world vaccine injuries.
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A study Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. in 2011, submitted to HHS, where it presumably went straight into the trash bin, concluded the following:
Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported. Low reporting rates preclude or slow the identification of “problem” drugs and vaccines that endanger public health. New surveillance methods for drug and vaccine adverse effects are needed.
