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Posted on 04/22/2020 3:40:44 PM PDT by bitt
A doctor who was removed as head of the federal agency that is helping develop a vaccine for the coronavirus said he was ousted after he resisted widespread adoption of a drug promoted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19.
Dr. Rick Bright also said that he believed he was removed from his post because he insisted that "the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the Covid-19 pandemic" be put toward "safe and scientifically vetted solutions, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit."
A doctor who was removed as head of the federal agency that is helping develop a vaccine for the coronavirus said he was ousted after resisting widespread adoption of a drug promoted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19.
Dr. Rick Bright also said that he believed he was removed from his post because he insisted that "the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the Covid-19 pandemic" be invested "into safe and scientifically vetted solutions, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit."
"I am speaking out because to combat this deadly virus, science — not politics or cronyism — has to lead the way," Bright said in a statement, which was first reported by The New York Times.
"Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths. Science, in service to the health and safety of the American people, must always trump politics," said Bright, who until earlier this week was director the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
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waawaa p
Big Media will trot out an “expert” a day to step up this attack on us.
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Buh buy, cuck. Don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
I heard (FOX item) he was going to go to an IG to complain.
That’s politics. Or at least, an authoritarian view of what can and can’t be looked at in a time of emergency.
Is it my imagination or do the first four paragraphs basically say the same things in slightly different ways?
So this person wanted to take medical decisions away from the actual doctors on the ground and invest in some Unicode treatment that may or may not ever be found. Got it.
Dr Bright, really isn’t
Only demoted for a federal bureaucrat picking a political fight with the President? Should have been fired
Good... next time keep your stupid politics out of your work
Who the F does he think he is? Your fired
But there are no drugs, vaccines or magic incantations that had been scientifically vetted because it was a new disease. Rather than refusal, the proper response would have been to quickly organize double-blind testing to promising treatments. Since the treatment cycle is five days you could have the first round of testing designed, implemented, and waiting for post drug evaluation in a week. But I would bet there is a lot more than scientific caution behind this. New drugs get you a million dollar job as a VP or head researcher at pharmaceutical company. Effective generic treatments keep you at your civil service job.
He should be lucky he didn’t end up like Obamas rodeo clown.
Paging Dr Mengele. You evil bastard. People are dying and you want to give some of them a sugar pill, to watch them die. And let me add you evil grandstanding bastard, what part of using under the care and guidance of a doctor are you missing?
This President would never remove someone so far down the ladder. This was a decision made by other MDs who knew this fellow was a screwball.
Well this is certainly an impeachable offense under Pelosi. Will Schiffty go the IG route? Who is the IG for this? Would it have been this guy?
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I mean, do the jokes write themselves, or what?
I’m gonna go with total BS on this one.
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