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The FDA and Vaccine Manufacturers Refuse to Show Us Their Work

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The FDA and Vaccine Manufacturers Refuse to Show Us Their Work
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David Gortler
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When it comes to mRNA injections for COVID-19, Americans are 100 percent dependent on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and vaccine manufacturers to assess and confirm purity and consistency. That might be OK if the testing methodologies that manufacturers and the FDA use are still fully transparent, but they’re not anymore.

David Gortler
David Gortler
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Dr. David Gortler, a 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, research scientist, and a former member of the FDA Senior Executive Leadership Team who served as senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner on matters of: FDA regulatory affairs, drug safety and FDA science policy. He is a former Yale University and Georgetown University didactic professor of pharmacology and biotechnology, with over a decade of academic pedagogy and bench research, as part of his nearly two decades of experience in drug development. He also serves as a scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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