Scott Gottlieb, who served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in Trump 1.0, is campaigning against the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services in the modern Trump administration. In an interview on CNBC on Friday, Gottlieb said he did Meeting with Senators and that there is “skepticism in the Republican caucus.” [on RFK Jr.’s nomination]more than the press is currently reporting.”
He also voiced a line of attack that we’re sure to hear during RFK, Jr.’s confirmation hearing: “I think if RFK puts his intentions into action, and I believe he will and I believe he will can, it will incur costs.” lives in this country”,
Gottlieb highlighted three arguments vs. RFK, Jr.
Gottlieb said he is rallying Republican senators to his cause to defeat RFK Jr.’s nomination using three main arguments: Big agricultural interests that will have big money to run against the incumbent in future elections because of RFK Jr.’s positions on the American food industry Republicans could spend, his His past support for abortion rights and his opposition to childhood vaccinations roiled senators who supported public health.
In reality he only has one argument.
“You will see, remember, you will see that measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates will go down. And as I said, if we lose another five percent [vaccinated]”What could happen in the next year or two is we’re going to see enormous outbreaks of measles,” Gottlieb predicted, referring to the MMR vaccine recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of more than a dozen recommended by the CDC schedule.
You’ve seen this argument before with Social Security.
It’s the argument the unscrupulous make when they have nothing else to work with.
In my opinion, Gottlieb is the poster child for what is wrong with American medicine. From 2003 to 2007, he worked at the FDA and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. From there, he moved to an investment fund specializing in emerging medical companies and sat on the board of at least three pharmaceutical companies. In 2017, he became FDA commissioner. Now he is back on the board of Pfizer. During COVID he was for it Lockdowns, masking, social isolation of the vulnerable and social distancing. He opposed federal vaccination mandates but supported the same mandates at the local level.
Gottlieb was also one of the driving forces behind the ban on social media platforms. especially Twitterby former New York Times reporter and novelist Alex Berenson because he challenged conventional wisdom.
There’s no doubt that a guy like RFK Jr. will upset more than a few apple carts in the pharmaceutical manufacturing and regulatory sophisticated.
Terrified former FDA commissioner and Pfizer vaccine booster Scott Gottlieb claims RFK Jr. will ‘cost lives’
Biopharmaceutical Complex Players Vows to ‘Continue to Express My Concerns’ to Senators About RFK Jr., Fearing Much-Needed Regulatory Reform, by Nicolas Huscher, MPH… pic.twitter.com/m9SzvHV6X3
— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® (@P_McCulloughMD) November 30, 2024
It may even ban former regulators from working in the industries they regulate for a period of years.
Gottlieb’s fears likely stem from RFK Jr.’s promise to close the revolving door of corruption, a door through which Gottlieb walked. https://t.co/wILSnhmBWJ pic.twitter.com/Y1aprvlOoJ
— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) November 29, 2024
Although Gottlieb has the right to speak to as many senators as he wants, I would suspect that his talk of a polio epidemic is intended to scare rather than enlighten them. His real fear is that RFK Jr. will upset the comfortable “one hand washes the other” between regulators and regulated industries and the high-paying revolving door that funnels regulators to regulated industries and then back to regulators.
