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Worth noting that Marks was a career official who navigated several political teams, including the first Trump admin. (Where he helped conceive of Operation Warp Speed.) Two former FDA commissioners under GOP presidents, @ScottGottliebMD and Mark McClellan, on record with praise for Marks tonight.

Two former FDA commissioners praised Marks on Friday night, highlighting his work at the agency. Marks helped conceive of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s program to accelerate the development of coronavirus vaccines, which has been credited with helping end the threat of the covid-19 pandemic. A December 2022 study by the Commonwealth Fund, a health-care foundation, estimated that coronavirus vaccines prevented more than 18.5 million U.S. hospitalizations and 3.2 million deaths. As head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Marks led a team of experts who were charged with scrutinizing data on vaccines and other medical products before deciding whether to approve them.

“Peter has presided over an extraordinary period of medical progress, spearheading breakthroughs in cell and gene therapy that helped transform the treatment of pediatric leukemia, sickle cell disease, and certain forms of blindness,” said Scott Gottlieb, who served as FDA commissioner during the first Trump administration. “Peter’s commitment to bringing the best science and data to the development and availability of lifesaving biomedical technologies, from gene and cell therapies to the Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed, has saved countless lives,” said Mark McClellan, who served as FDA commissioner during the George W. Bush administration. “His decade-long leadership at the FDA is a big reason why the FDA is the gold standard for advancing the most innovative breakthrough medicines.”

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... @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social

mar 29, 2025, 3:11 am • 2 0 • view

"Worth noting"

mar 29, 2025, 8:48 am • 2 0 • view

Oh you mean a career government person came up with Operation Warp Speed?!?? That was one of the few things people give Trump legit credit for! But of course it was one of the career people that he’s now forced out for the quack!

mar 29, 2025, 3:33 am • 37 2 • view

mar 29, 2025, 4:57 am • 4 1 • view

All the big brains’ top-tier leading experts are being fired, and all that is left is some idiots with brain worms.

mar 29, 2025, 3:21 am • 296 23 • view

mar 29, 2025, 10:55 am • 63 5 • view

And the GOP idiots with brain worms who confirmed him.

mar 29, 2025, 11:21 am • 2 0 • view

What's left is yes-men who will do whatever the boss tells them, no matter how stupid and ineffective.

mar 29, 2025, 5:15 am • 70 1 • view

This is very sad news. The Trump Administration is rotting America.

mar 29, 2025, 7:31 am • 30 2 • view

Has rotted America.

mar 29, 2025, 10:09 am • 14 0 • view

Or Illegal 👀

mar 29, 2025, 8:41 am • 4 0 • view

MAGAts feel threatened by anyone with real intelligence.

mar 29, 2025, 7:19 am • 4 0 • view

Who are willing to let people die. RfraudkJr is a charlatan who should be sued for every fatal or harmful disease outcome.

mar 29, 2025, 5:30 am • 4 0 • view

All of the physicians in Congress should publicly demand RFK Jr & Marty Makary testify on why Peter Marks was forced out of the #FDA. #science #publichealth #DrainTheSwamp

mar 29, 2025, 3:02 pm • 87 16 • view

Don’t waste our time. RFK Jr is hopelessly stupid and braindead. Just send him to HELL. America does NOT need a fucking moron like that. The worst kind of shitty idiot!

mar 29, 2025, 7:21 pm • 25 2 • view

Serious (aside) question: if a physician is a Member of Congress or a Senator, isn't that an abandonment of one's calling? You are in a better position than anyone I can think of to ask. Are they still physicians, or are they former physicians?

apr 1, 2025, 11:57 pm • 2 0 • view

No. Dr. Rudolf Virchow stated "Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine at a larger scale”. However, there are physicians on entering politics who choose to give up their professional values for political gain. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19052033/#:~....

apr 2, 2025, 7:29 am • 2 0 • view

Thank you for the reply. That was my theoretical framework, as well, something to be assumed in good faith. It's reassuring to have confirmation. It seems intuitive to me how peers may be able to prompt one another to recommit to the values that prompted them to take up medicine in the 1st place.

apr 2, 2025, 8:07 am • 2 0 • view

No Republican has the backbone to do that.

mar 29, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0 • view