Vaccine Fascism is Best Fascism.
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.
So he's another self-righteous, toxic leftwing paranoid.
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.
"Why wouldn't we? Because frankly we don't trust (them)," he said, using a profanity. "They'd write over it or erase the whole database."
Why would a vaccine skeptic like RFKJr. delete a database of bad reactions to vaccines? The database is evidence to a vaccine skeptic.
What this neurotic delusional paranoid really means, but is still sane enough to know it sounds crazy, is that he fears that Kennedy will start making up adverse vaccine reactions and adding them to the database like a left-wing Wikipedia editor going to town on Trump's page.
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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.
Did "experts" debunk it?
Because we all know that "experts" are always right and only act in the public interest.
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Marks is highly regarded by former FDA leaders and biotech industry executives, but his time at the agency was not without controversy. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was alternately criticized for being too slow -- under Trump-- and too fast -- under Biden-- to authorize new vaccines and boosters.
Marks says he "tried everything" to work with Kennedy.
Except, of course, actually obeying the orders of his boss. But apart from that -- he did everything.
If this piece sounds a little fawning, that's because it's an AP propaganda piece.
Obviously the people who hate RFK, Jr., Trump, or even just Republicans will cheer Marks on as if "The Science" means that you can do anything you want if you are a High Priest of the Dark Arts, but the reality is much more prosaic: RFK Jr. is the Senate-approved Cabinet Secretary and Marks had no right to deny him access to data just because Marks disagrees with him.
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In short, Marks invented a fear, based on something so implausible as to be fantasy--and refused to do his job. As for the "I don't trust them" excuse I say: none of us trust you, Marks, because of how mismanaged things have been. How many people know that the top two FDA vaccine officials resigned in protest over what they considered to be unsafe recommendations for COVID boosters?
They did, and the media barely noticed. That was real, Marks' excuse is based on fantasies that he can read the minds of his bosses. Yet the media has turned him into a hero.
Marks is proving RFK, Jr. right, at least in his suspicions that the people in charge don't want anyone to see the whole picture.
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I don't think journalists (and scientists) understand how damning this looks
They think this makes Peter Marks a hero, but normal people look at this and say "why is the vaccine safety database off limits to the Secretary of Health?"