Top F.D.A. Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining
confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
By Christina JewettSheryl
Gay Stolberg and Noah
Weiland The New York Times
· March 28, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration’s
top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure Friday and said
that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was
irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.
“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,” Dr. Marks wrote to
Sara Brenner, the agency’s acting commissioner. He reiterated the sentiments in
an interview, saying: “This man doesn’t care about the truth. He cares about
what is making him followers.”
Dr. Marks resigned after he was summoned
to the Department of Health and Human Services Friday afternoon and told that
he could either quit or be fired, according to a person familiar with the
matter.
Dr. Marks led the agency’s Center
for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which authorized and monitored the
safety of vaccines and a wide array of other treatments, including cell and
gene therapies. He was viewed as a steady hand by many during the Covid
pandemic but had come under criticism for being overly generous to
companies that sought approvals for therapies with mixed evidence of a benefit.
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