The latest hackings, stabbings, and loppings of the waste, fraud, and abuse that plagues the sprawling federal bureaucracy.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. purges ENTIRE 17-member CDC vaccine committee
Via Associated Press (emphasis added):
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
Major physicians and public health groups criticized the move to oust all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Kennedy, who was one of the nation’s leading anti-vaccine activists before becoming the nation’s top health official, has not said who he would appoint to the panel, but said it would convene in just two weeks in Atlanta.
Although it’s typically not viewed as a partisan board, the entire current roster of committee members were Biden appointees*.
*You understand, when one partisan actor, President Joe Biden, appointed — or, more accurately, his handlers appointed — his FDA committee members handpicked from whatever list of pre-approved candidates Pfizer™ got to them through backchannels, that was entirely kosher.
But when a new administration reverses all those appointments so it can appoint its own in line with its agenda — which we might call democracy in action — you get a predictable hailstorm of condemnation from Brought to You By Pfizer™ legacy media.
Related: MAHA: Top FDA Vax-Monger’s Firing Sends Pharma Stocks Plummeting
As RFK Jr. has consistently pointed out, the nation’s public health agencies are infested with the institutional rot of regulatory capture.
Case in point: Scott Gottlieb, who, both before and after allegedly doing the people’s work as the nation’s top drug regulator at the FDA, moonlighted as a high-powered Pfizer operative.
Via Goodly Lawful Society, 2019 (emphasis added):
Last week, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb took on a new position – on the board of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Mr. Gottlieb will now profit from a company that he was responsible for regulating less than 3 months prior. The move has been widely criticized, and for good reason. The revolving door between government regulators and the pharmaceutical industry has completely eroded the public’s faith in the FDA.
Pfizer is a massive company worth billions. Since Gottlieb was nominated as FDA commissioner, Pfizer’s market value has exploded from $200 billion to $240 billion. For the first year as commissioner, Gottlieb was forced to recuse himself from making decisions involving nearly 20 pharmaceutical companies with whom he had relationships. These companies included Vertex Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, among others.
Before becoming commissioner, he also did work for Pfizer…
Gottlieb has said that he is “proud” of his relationship with Pfizer and that he’s “very confident” about his record at the FDA.
Totally coincidentally, Gottlieb was front and center in legacy media pimping the shots all throughout the pandemic — never introduced as “Pfizer board member,” but rather “former FDA Commissioner.”
Gottlieb is just one of a sea of Public Health™ bureaucrats to retire into small pharma fortunes, cashing in on all of that so-called public service — Lester Crawford, Margaret Hamburg, Robert Califf, to name a few, serving as other examples.Related: Bill Gates Lobbying White House to Reverse USAID Cuts: Report
No functioning state — much less an alleged “democracy” — would allow this malfeasance to continue as it has for decades.
