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The American FDA is the most influential drug agency in the world, above the European EMA and anything else that exists on the planet. His new head of Science and Medicine, Vinay Prasad, disjointed all scientists at the end of May who advise the agency to impose their own vision of the subject, consisting of developed by modern and an alternative designed by Novavax. They can be used for children, but not from the age of 12.
Arguments? Here we flour. Prasad says that, now that the virus is no longer a serious threat, the risks of those vaccines. It could be an argument if the risks were real, but they are not. FDA scientists specialized in the subject say that these COVID vaccines are safe and effective, as clinical trials with thousands of patients demonstrate. And now hold on: Prasad does not discuss the validity of these essays, but alleges that there may be side effects that have not yet been discovered. Okay. For the same reason we could eliminate all cancer treatments, right? And the aspirins, already put.
All this is part of the vaccination policy implanted by, one of Donald Trump’s star appointments. Not only the FDA, but also the disease control centers (CDC) and the National Health Institutes (NIH) HAN, Pseudoscientific and irrational. Trump calls this “gold pattern science” (gold-standard science). You can call it whatever you want, because your voters give all this a pepper.
But in the FDA it matters, and a lot. Some 3,000 agency employees, more or less 15% of its workforce ,. And the marinade is far from having finished. Prasad is also in charge of the genetic and cellular therapy division. If you apply the same type of policies that you have imposed on vaccines, the progress of biomedicine can suffer an arbitrary, harmful and free block. Some of the most important scientific institutions in the world are in serious danger of becoming communication agencies of political irrationality.
Antes del, a scientist commented that this would be like putting a embankment at the head of NASA. And that is just what we have now. The international scientific community is perplexed, irritated and very concerned about this invasion of ultra -corps in issues that consider sacred, which are the foundations of scientific practice. The damage will have effects for decades to come, and the only beneficiary will be Chinese science.
He is being admirable. Six of the main medical societies filed a lawsuit against Kennedy on Monday claiming that their vaccines restrictions are for citizens. The plaintiffs think that the Secretary of Health has been holding for decades without the slightest evidence than vaccines are more dangerous than viruses against those who are directed, which is rigorously false. His effort to destroy vaccines is a mania, typical of an ignorant and spread by stupidity pipes that circulate on social networks and intoxicate voters.
Kennedy’s pseudoscientific delusions not only point to the FDA, much less. The CDC of Atlanta, in charge of the control of epidemics, already and replaced them with a series of experts without any knowledge about vaccines or the slightest experience in the subject. And in May, he announced that the CDCs were going to suppress their recommendation of COVID vaccines for children and pregnant women. Again, do not expect to read any rational argument to take that measure, because there is no. It is the mere whim of an ignorant, do not give them more turns.
Trump’s tariff policy has been analyzed until satiety. Its scientific policy is even more harmful, because here it is clear that it is not a negotiation, however clumsy, but a frontal attack on the advancement of knowledge. It is more than possible that Spanish Trumpists arrive at the government in the next elections. Bad matter.
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