Posted on 10/12/2025 11:59:56 AM PDT by RandFan
Peter Marks, the former top vaccine regulator who was ousted from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year, has joined Eli Lilly (LLY.N), opens new tab, the drugmaker told Reuters on Tuesday.
Marks will oversee molecule discovery and infectious diseases at Lilly, starting this month.
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Rep. Massie calls him a miscreant:
@RepThomasMassie
Omg, I deposed this miscreant. He was responsible for the fraudulent approval (and illegal government promotion) of the mRNA vaccines after he chased off the two top vaccine reviewers at the FDA
Poor guy. Who would want to lead an infectious disease that harms people?
Quite common, this revolving door.
Same w/congressmen in the pocket of Big Pharma.
Lots of MAHA remains.
He already worked for them, they just made it official.
The man is a felon.
The “quo” part of “quid pro quo.”
“Quite common, this revolving door.”
An old-school newspaper columnist, Drew Pearson, titled his column “The Washington Merry-Go-Round”. This news of FDA to BIG PHARMA for the well-placed is just another paragraph in this epic story.
Congressman Billy Tauzin of Louisiana chaired the committee that developed the 2003 legislation that banned HHS from negotiating drug prices for Medicare/Medicaid.
For his services to Big Pharma that cost US taxpayers untold billions, he left his House seat to lead the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America lobbying group. I forgot his salary, but assume it was enormous.
Revolving door.
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