04/08/2025

Ex-FDA Official Says He was Forced out of his Role

This happened after he tried to protect vaccine safety data from RFK, Jr.

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 long-standing 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 (VAERS). But he would not allow them to directly edit the data.

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