FDA Official Leaves Agency Through the “Revolving Door” and Returns to Pfizer
On Feb. 24,2025, Pfizer, Inc. announced that FDA official Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD will rejoin the pharmaceutical company, which makes and sells federally recommended vaccines and drugs, as Pfizer’s Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President. Most recently, Dr. Cavazzoni served as Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the U.S. Food […]
Caught in Their Own Trap?
On Jan. 5, 2024 the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article by Dr. Peter Marks and Dr. Robert Califf. Both authors are affiliated with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The article, “Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?,” is a discussion about growing vaccine hesitancy in the U.S., and […]
FDA Removes Informed Consent Protections from Some Human Clinical Trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that authorizes some experimental human clinical trials to operate without first obtaining informed consent from participants. The new rule, which took effect on Jan. 22, 2024, allows clinical investigations that pose no more than a “minimal risk” and have appropriate safeguards to protect […]
Evidence of DNA Contamination in mRNA Shots Prompts Call for Halting Their Use
On Dec. 6, 2023, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, wrote a letter to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Robert Califf, MD, requesting that an investigation be launched into the alleged DNA contamination in Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty and Moderna/NIAID’s Spikevax mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) COVID shots. Not satisfied with the […]
Florida Surgeon General, Scientist Warn of Cancer Risk Linked to mRNA COVID Shots Contaminated With DNA
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD is raising concerns about the potential for the mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) COVID shots to cause cancer because the product reportedly is contaminated with viral DNA. Phillip Buckhaults, PhD, professor of cancer molecular genetics at the University of South Carolina, has issued a similar warning about the risks […]
FDA Approves U.S. Babies and Young Children to Get Omicron COVID Booster Shots
In early December 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/NIAID mRNA COVID-19 shots to include administration of the Omicron COVID booster shots to children as young as six months old. The action allows everyone over the age of six months to get the […]