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The Mess at the FDA Just Got Bigger as Chief Marty Makary Resigns
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The Mess at the FDA Just Got Bigger as Chief Marty Makary Resigns

Gizmodo·Ed Cara·20 days ago
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The second Trump administration continues to be a heavily used revolving door. Just today, Marty Makary officially resigned his position as head of the Food and Drug Administration. Politico was the first to report on the development this afternoon. Makary’s resignation ends a short tenure marred by controversy, misleading health-related claims from the federal government, and infighting among different camps of the GOP. The Makary era Prior to becoming the 27th commissioner of the FDA, Makary was a surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine. Though he’s been praised for his work as a surgeon, pioneering the use of several procedures, he’s also garnered plenty of enmity for his outspoken views on a variety of topics related to health and medicine. In 2016, for instance, he co-authored a paper arguing that medical errors were the third leading cause of death in the U.S.—a now widely repeated statistic that many other scientists have criticized as poorly supported by the data.…

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