{"id":197340,"date":"2025-03-28T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/2025\/03\/28\/dr-peter-marks-the-food-and-drug-administrations-leading-vaccine-expert-abru\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T02:02:18","slug":"dr-peter-marks-the-food-and-drug-administrations-leading-vaccine-expert-abru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/2025\/03\/28\/dr-peter-marks-the-food-and-drug-administrations-leading-vaccine-expert-abru\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s leading vaccine expert, abru&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nDr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s leading vaccine expert, abruptly resigned citing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s aggressive and misleading stance on vaccines as a threat to public health. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,\u201d Dr. Marks wrote in a resignation letter addressed to acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marks was forced to step down after being given an ultimatum by a Department of Health and Human Services official: resign or be fired.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation followed a series of controversial remarks by Kennedy earlier that day in West Virginia, where he claimed Covid-19 \u201cdid not kill healthy people\u201d\u2014a statement contradicted by data showing that around 30% of early pandemic deaths occurred in individuals without underlying conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy has also raised concerns for promoting vitamin A as a treatment during a recent measles outbreak in Texas, while minimizing the proven effectiveness of vaccines. Just a day before Dr. Marks\u2019 departure, Kennedy announced the creation of a new federal office dedicated to investigating vaccine injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation underscores growing tensions within federal health agencies as scientific leaders push back against politically driven misinformation.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064806036542\/posts\/1066078898895635\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s leading vaccine expert, abruptly resigned citing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s aggressive and misleading stance on vaccines as a threat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-alt-national-park-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}