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FDA Scientist Quits, Blasts RFK Jr

Mar 31, 2025

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure from his boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Marks was seen as a steady hand through the Covid epidemic, and even helped guide the development of Covid vaccines under Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” in 2020. But now he’s run afoul of RFK Jr’s anti-vax stance.

On his way out the door, though, he issued a scathing statement: “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.”

What a perfect summary of what the Trump administration expects of all its employees: complete obedience. Science and public health be damned!