FDA Drug Chief Resigns Amid Probe Into Alleged Misconduct

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The head of the Food and Drug Administration's drug division abruptly resigned Sunday following an internal review into "serious concerns about his personal conduct," according to a government spokesperson.

According to The Associated Press, Dr. George Tidmarsh, who took over the position in July, was placed on leave Friday after the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of General Counsel was alerted to the allegations. He then resigned Sunday morning, HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard said in an email.

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The resignation coincided with the filing of a lawsuit by Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, which accuses Tidmarsh of making "false and defamatory statements" and using his FDA post to pursue a "longstanding personal vendetta" against Kevin Tang, the company's board chair.

According to the complaint, Tang previously served on the boards of several drug companies where Tidmarsh had been an executive -- including La Jolla Pharmaceutical -- and was involved in his removal from leadership roles.

I didn't cover this last week -- a new study shows that 91% of all people who got the Moderna non-vaccine experienced cardiovascular side-effects.

From the moment the COVID vaccines were released, the public was gaslit about their safety and efficacy. Many of the claims were pure bovine excrement, such as the claim that recipients of the vaccine couldn't contract or transmit the virus. The former was not evident in the original studies (and turned out to be the opposite of the truth), and the latter claim was never even tested before release.

And that's just efficacy. Safety is even more important, and the studies were so small and poorly designed that only the most gross safety signals could possibly have been picked up. It turns out that all the claims about how benign the vaccines are are pure BS, and all the people making those claims had every reason to know that they were deceiving people.

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Well, another study examining the effect of the Moderna mRNA COVID vaccine has come out, and it shows that over 90% of people who get the Moderna vaccine experience cardiovascular side effects.

The effects are usually subtle, but that doesn't mean they are benign. People who get the vaccine experience a measurable and significant decline in arterial flexibility--a hardening of the arteries--that could have significant impacts on their health long-term.

Random insults to the body are usually not good. If you get hit with a big dose of radiation, you'll see some changes in your DNA, and the odds are those changes will be bad for your health. The chances of you gaining superpowers from the exposure are rather low.

In related news, HHS head RFKJr. is fast-tracking the approval of "biosimilar" drugs, which are drugs made from the patient's own cells.

Federal regulators are trying to make it easier to develop cheaper alternatives to powerful drugs that many Americans depend on to treat autoimmune diseases or cancers.

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has released guidance to simplify studies for biologic drugs and cut unnecessary testing.

Biologic drugs are made from living cells instead of by mixing chemicals. They have led to major advances in treating immune system disorders, eye diseases and some cancers since the late 1990s, but they also are very costly.

posted by Ace at 03:18 PM

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