Pricey Dr. Makary,
I’m positive you learn the identical information that we did. Based on the article RFK Jr. Key Adviser Petitioned Regulators to Revoke Approval of Polio Vaccine:
A key authorized adviser to Robert Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s decide for well being secretary, is on the heart of efforts to push federal drug regulators to revoke approval for the polio and hepatitis B vaccines and block distribution of 13 different essential vaccines.
Aaron Siri, a lawyer who has been serving to Kennedy choose prime well being directors as a part of the Trump transition course of, is deeply embedded in longstanding efforts to pressure the US Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) to withdraw a raft of vaccines which have saved the lives and well being of hundreds of thousands of Individuals.
That is fairly the pickle for you, isn’t it? You spent the previous few years cozying as much as all the best individuals and dutifully spouting the occasion misinformation about masks and COVID vaccines. Regardless of being an examplar of the medical institution, you railed in opposition to the “medical institution” as in the event you have been a impartial outsider. You advised the general public that RFK Jr. actually cared about “persistent illness” and that his anti-vaxx disinformation was “100% true.“
Embracing such groupthink was required for you get observed, and your willingness to sublimate impartial thought for the sake of energy paid off. You might be doubtless going to be head of the FDA. You’ll be well-known and have huge affect, which is the whole lot you wished. However your reward got here with a poison chalice- your boss will likely be a complete anti-vaxx crank.
Possibly you think about you may purpose with RFK Jr. and get him to disregard vaccines and even help a few of them. That’s a idiot’s errand. Opposing vaccines has been his obsession for 20 years. Positive, he would possibly “research” them first, however when he “discovers” that they trigger autism, his subsequent steps are apparent. He’ll unfold misinformation about important vaccines and he’ll goal them in each means he can. That is the man behind Vaxxed 3: Approved to Kill, in spite of everything.
So what are you going to do if RFK Jr. calls for that you just revoke approval for vaccines, which you realize are secure and efficient?
You realize that in the event you resist RFK Jr.- as I hope and counsel you do– you could be fired. Every part you’ve labored for will likely be gone. These Fox Information appearances, the place you embarrassed your self declaring we had herd immunity in Could 2021, will likely be for naught.
Sadly, I’m not assured you’ll do the best factor. Second, you unfold copious misinformation about COVID and I haven’t seen you acknowledge you have been fallacious about any of it. Second, you haven’t but put out a press release that the MMR, HPV, polio, and different routine vaccines are secure and efficient and that they might be secure in the event you ran the FDA.
Why not?
I think that in the event you capitulate to RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine calls for, you’ll without end be often called the physician who helped revive long-vanquished illnesses. Nothing else about you’ll matter. Youngsters will endure and die, and their grieving mother and father will likely be all around the information. Historical past books will rightfully deal with you because the anti-Jonas Salk, and medical college students will find out about you as a cautionary story.
Hopefully a miracle will occur and RFK Jr. will go away vaccines alone. But when he goes after vaccines, I want you success maintaining them secure from him the following 4 years. We’ll all be watching. The time to begin talking out is now.