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I have heard and read nothing but great things regarding Dr. Makary. He would be a breath of fresh air in the stale recirculating air of the FDA. I am quite concerned that a federal agency as grand as the FDA would endorse or even entertain such a level headed doctor in.

Right now I see the FDA as the old codger men's club where the doors are locked and only the elite of the elite men are invited in to wear their satin smoking jackets, smoke Cohiba Behike cigars or Hearth & Home tobacco in their pipes along with drinking their oldest Remy Martin VSOP cognac.

Would they open their doors to a young, vibrant, curious man who is looking for the truth?

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Finally, some hope for the FDA to be a useful entity.

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Exciting possibility: please God! I loved his exposé on the dishonesty and intimidation involved in health care billing practices, "The Price We Pay."

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He is an awesome pick. He stood with us saner folks during the covid "pandemic". If you want to learn more about him, I invite you to read his excellent books. Awesome doc. Awesome human!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538861-unaccountable?ref=nav_sb_ss_3_6

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42373033-the-price-we-pay?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_6

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210083661-blind-spots?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=tp6ZbBppbc&rank=2

We are ll in great hands with Dr. Makary!

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He sounds like a good person to usher in a new philosophy at FDA: approve things supported by data; don’t approve things that aren’t supported by data; have phase 4 post marketing surveillance that has the teeth to pull things that were previously approved off the market.

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It's a brilliant appointment. I seriously doubt that this guy is going to take any shit from gub-ment bureaucrats or participate in ANYTHING that has the slightest odor of intellectual dishonesty. In the words of Tom Burnett, Jr., the hero from Minnesota who led the charge on the smelly goons that had hijacked United Airlines flight 93 on 9/11, "Let's Roll".

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Outstanding piece here, we need courageous leadership like yours at the FDA. Would love to talk about our efforts to risk stratify with COVID-age.com and use waste water viral load monitoring with our Test and Symptom tracker to alert to likelihood a specific variant(s) currently in your zip code may affect you poorly. Allowing informed individuals to do their own localized cost/benefit estimations in a free market of risk mitigation strategies. The population tending to accepting infection with low virulent strains and avoiding higher virulence strains, thereby directing the evolution of the pathogens towards less virulent forms. And Congratulations! To a speedy appointment!

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Love the idea of the risk calculator. CDC should have done this in spring 2020!

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An excellent example of why America needs Dr. Makary to be commissioner of the FDA. He will have the credibility to restore public trust in the institution.

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…until his pronouncements clash with the marketing goals of Big Pharma?

Do we really believe Trump and the Republicans will allow Commissioners Makary, Kennedy, et al. to incur the wrath of their donors?

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