This is #RFKJr's real game: Make it so that pharmaceutical companies don't want to invest in #vaccine research. And it's working. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/moderna-chief-company-won-t-invest-new-late-stage-vaccine-trials
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Have a good friend who is a retired Chief Science Officer for a big pharma company. He says the entire FDA/Industry process for drug approvals has been destroyed resulting in a 50 (yes 50!, half a century!) setback to worldwide drug development.
And it will never recover, because now trust is wrecked. Other nations will try to fill the void, but they need to build everything from scratch. The US was the only game in town for safe drug R&D, and it is simply gone.
@mastodonmigration @BruceMirken
I'm somewhat ignorant in this area so please excuse me if this question is somewhat naive but wouldn't the European Medicines Agency offer a similar framework?
Perhaps this is so. Just reporting on his perspective. Will inquire with him next time we get together. The big pharma company he worked for was EU based, so quite certainly he will have a perspective on this.
@mastodonmigration @happy I'll be curious to hear his response. My guess, as a non-expert who works with people who know much more than I, is that European equivalents to the FDA, CDC, and NIH have not had to operate on the scale that will be required with these U.S. agencies decimated, so it's not like they can just step right in. It's much easier to break things than to build them.
Suspect this is the case.
@mastodonmigration @BruceMirken And it was destroyed by people who have no idea what they're doing.
@EndicottAuthor @mastodonmigration @BruceMirken
Incompetent yes, stupid assuredly, but the outcome is mass epidemics, and they know what they are doing.
They know what they are doing.
Measels outbreaks is not a surprise to them. Not a surprise.
@mastodonmigration #RFKJr may well prove to be the greatest mass murderer in history.
@mastodonmigration And the next pandemic is getting its shoes on in India right now, with no vaccine... @BruceMirken
@ZenHeathen @mastodonmigration @BruceMirken
Measles in the United States.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
@Chip_Unicorn @ZenHeathen @mastodonmigration Hmmm... I wonder what happened in early 2025 that could have made things get worse? 😱
Another thing. What he says is increasingly replacing the solid industry/academic/government collaboration mechanism is scattershot billionaire drug moonshots. With the super rich haphazardly funding research into their priorities and/or vanity drug developments. Apparently this is the way drugs were developed a hundred years ago with notoriously sketchy efficacy.