Dr. Marty Makary, Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, an epidemiologist affiliated with the Florida Department of Health, have written a disturbing piece in Common Sense about the how the U.S. medicine regulatory agencies, the FDA, CDC and NIH, have been captured by a political narrative, leaving many of their senior doctors and scientists unhappy, frustrated but silenced. Here’s the opening:
The calls and text messages are relentless. On the other end are doctors and scientists at the top levels of the NIH, FDA and CDC. They are variously frustrated, exasperated and alarmed about the direction of the agencies to which they have devoted their careers.
“It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch and I can’t close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”
That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorised Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorise booster shots for young children.
That doctor is hardly alone.
At the NIH, doctors and scientists complain to us about low morale and lower staffing: The NIH’s Vaccine Research Center has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the Director, Deputy Director and Chief Medical Officer. “They have no leadership right now. Suddenly there’s an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions,” one NIH scientist told us. (The people who spoke to us would only agree to be quoted anonymously, citing fear of professional repercussions.)
The CDC has experienced a similar exodus. “There’s been a large amount of turnover. Morale is low,” one high level official at the CDC told us. “Things have become so political, so what are we there for?” Another CDC scientist told us: “I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed.”
Why are they embarrassed? In short, bad science.
The longer answer: that the heads of their agencies are using weak or flawed data to make critically important public health decisions. That such decisions are being driven by what’s politically palatable to people in Washington or to the Biden administration. And that they have a myopic focus on one virus instead of overall health.Nowhere has this problem been clearer – or the stakes higher – than on official public health policy regarding children and Covid.
They go on to criticise the decisions to close schools, impose masks on children and, of course, vaccinate them, all driven by politics rather than data.
Worth reading in full.
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Sounds as if they’ll have to be brave and start speaking out.
Yes. I realise it is easy for someone like me to say how wrong all this is and that people in a position of authority should speak out, but reality is, of course, not quite that easy.
But I genuinely believe we are looking at outright crimes against humanity and the only way to stop it is to say: No more! If there really are so many people leaving these positions, they must be able to reach out to each other. They can join Robert Kennedy, Dr Malone, Dr McCollugh, Dr Kory, Dr Doshi, Dr Vanden Bossche and all the other people in the medical profession and science community who have spoken out, to their cost. The greater the number that speak out, the stronger they are. More will follow, even those who don’t necessarily agree with what they say must see that if they wish their profession to be respected, they must stand up for their colleagues. They need to realise that if grifting politicians and public health authorities will crush their colleagues, they will crush them too as soon as they step out of line.
They should reach out to Robert Kennedy, Steve Kirsch, Naomi Wolf, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Del Bigtree.
The momentum is growing and the dam will break. Be on the right side of history.
Perhaps they are watching their backs now?
No one wants to be first through the door, do they?
Well, I have news for these “frustrated, exasperated and alarmed” scientists:
MANY OF YOUR PEERS HAVE BEEN SHOUTING ABOUT THIS SINCE THE BEGINNING, AND YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY. AND YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES. GROW SOME BALLS, AND TELL EVERYONE YOUR NAMES, TOO. AND THEN START SHOUTING, PLEASE. THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOW.
I have done my shouting now. And I have shouted a lot, since the beginning, in front of New Scotland Yard, in front of the BBC and many more places. I have been proud for all to know my name. In my workplace and more. And to lead by example, here it is:
Mr Joe Vorlicky, and I say, for what it is worth,
TO HELL WITH ALL THIS SILENCE AND FEAR!
I do understand that nobody wants to destroy their own careers but how can they live with themselves? Also, and perhaps this is being naive, but if enough of them called this out then just possibly these organisations could, you know, do some actual science. Wouldn’t that be more rewarding than being shills for pharmaceutical companies?
Here’s something senior FDA and CDC officials might want to listen to attentively on their way home from work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtqPlB-oC4w
Always be proud of your achievements.
C- – TS !!
Well I guess this is good, but they need to speak out harder. There are whistleblowing procedures. If the CDC and FDA are being pressured by government, someone needs to whistleblow hard. RICO or something.
You don’t really believe that whistleblowing procedures would be followed if it became known that government officials were secretly in league with far-right antivaxxer conspiracy theorists, do you? Unless something seriously dramatic happens, a future US government may chose to investigate this issue. The present one certainy won’t. That would amount to self-impeachment.
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Why do people say the regulatory agencies are captured by a political narrative? I have seen this a number of times where people are saying that public health agencies are putting political motives above public health. I do not think this is accurate. This is not about ideology or politics. This is about money. They are putting financial considerations over public health as in the pharmaceutical industry owns the public health agencies like Bill Gates owns the WHO. It is all about the money in the end. This is a good article, but let’s call it what it really is. Thanks.
It’s probably both. There’s sort-of a positive feedback cycle here: Politicians make certain decisions. Like treating a benign coronavirus as if it was Yersinia Pestis on steroids because the great chieftain of the yellow people of the far east is terribly afraid of it. This opens an avenue for the health industy to make money by developing products promised to be tailored to it. As these become available, politicians feel compelled to make decisions favouring the new product(s) because it provides them with a seemingly easy way to avoid admitting that their original decisions were dangerous nonsense. The health industry now senses that there is Real Money[tm] to be made here and not only research grants. Hence, it puts more resources into products claimed to be tailored to … and so on.
It’s also important to assign responsibilties properly here: The great campaign to murder American children with mostly harmless injections serving no purpose is the responsibility of an immoral political class to whom humans are mostly pests endangering a precious huge ball of stone they’re very much concerned with. The pharma industry is just amoral and exploits whichever opportunities happen to be available to it. To re-use a slogan of the gun lobby: Vaccines don’t kill people. People kill people.
More than a little late in voicing their concerns ….. but better late than never.
An excellent article—I have forwarded it to decision makers here in N. Ireland, some of whom will actually read it!
Ethical Doctors actually interested in people’s health? Who would have guessed.
There’s one word that is the reason for all this – Fauci
I imagine there are many people who’ve been in denial about what’s going on, realising they should speak out but afraid of being ostracised. The longer they submit to cognitive dissonance the harder it will be to break out. They need to look into their hearts and find the confidence to do what’s right. That’s not easy and we need to give them as much support as possible, saving our anger for those who have been driving this madness from the beginning.