Dr. Peter Marks is being treated as a hero for standing up to RFK, Jr., but in any normal universe the bureaucrat would be treated as a pariah.
Forget for the moment that Marks is hardly the self-sacrificing saint and expert people claim he is, and get down to brass tacks about why he was actually fired: he refused to give his boss access to data to which he was entitled. Data, actually, to which all Americans should be entitled: the database of reported potential vaccine injuries called VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System).
VAERS exists for a reason: to give researchers data on reported incidents of potential vaccine injuries. It is a quick and dirty way to screen for patterns in reactions, real or perceived, to vaccines when they are rolled out into the general population. Since all medical trials are limited in scope and duration, all…
