Prasad and Makary are 100% linked to Trump, MAGA/MAHA and everything happening now. One reason that it was dangerous to minimize them is because it signaled that the entire MAHA/MAGA project wasn’t really anything to worry about.
That’s why I get mad at people who blew off warnings about them.
During his tenure Vinay Prasad
-Tried to block review of mRNA flu vaccine
-Demanded a sham-controlled trial for promising immunotherapy for huntingtons raising ethical concerns for patients.
-Imposed new warnings & study requirements for some biotech drugs and vaccines
apnews.com/article/vina...
An utterly bleak picture of the future of academic science in America
08.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 33 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0Correct. This was 2 weeks ago.
08.03.2026 19:10 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
It’s pretty clear that Trump now realizes that all the anti-vaxx activism by RFK Jr & Drs Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Høeg, & Prasad is hugely unpopular with the public & is a liability in the mid-terms
Prasad is out
And RFK Jr is being muzzled—he’ll just keep talking about “real food” until Nov
He was right about this at least
08.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 92 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2Thank you. But I don’t think I deserve credit for this. I knew covid was going to be bad, but didn’t weigh in on this particular point.
08.03.2026 15:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How Vinay Prasad Came to Washington - And Why It Was Always Going to End This Way Anish Koka, MD & @anish_koka • 22h
Multiple Prasad sycophants now claim they always knew it was going to end this way, that Saint Vinay was too pure for the DC swamp.
So why didn’t they try to stop him from going down this path?
I guess wanted to see him publicly fail.
Any comment from these guys?
08.03.2026 14:05 — 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Stand Up For Science Founder and CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Washington D.C. Take Back Our Science Rally!
Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:
1. Remove RFK Jr.
2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.
3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.
Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7
Prasad also made collages of doctors wearing masks to shame them and spread doubt and mistrust.
That’s the professionalism and maturity he brought to the table.
Exactly.
07.03.2026 15:27 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Correct
07.03.2026 14:35 — 👍 35 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Here’s the material they produced
07.03.2026 04:02 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 2Yep
07.03.2026 03:55 — 👍 75 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
Dr. Drew spreads the rankest conspiracies at this point.
07.03.2026 03:54 — 👍 148 🔁 22 💬 11 📌 7
January 2021 was the deadliest month of the pandemic. 3000 Americans died daily, 95,000 in total.
And Prasad was *mocking* people for avoiding COVID.
Shame on anyone who treated him as a good faith actor or serious thinker.
Let’s be honest about his record.
In fact, the promoted this guy to full professor.
Just listen.
Makary did this.
07.03.2026 02:59 — 👍 96 🔁 30 💬 4 📌 0
My first SBM article 5 years ago showed how Prasad was an unreliable ideologue. It aged very well.
He’s forfeited his right to be taken seriously ever again and anyone who does so should be ignored as well.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
So long, asshole. Lowkey one of the most destructive Trump appointees.
06.03.2026 23:46 — 👍 111 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Don’t forget how much Prasad was willing to debase himself for power.
He did this all by himself.
3 people had the power to remove Prasad.
Trump, RFK, or Makary.
Not “pharma.”
Summary of recent HHS departures:
-Unqualified weirdo Jim O’Neill out as CDC Director
-“Measles outbreaks are the cost of doing business” Ralph Abraham out as his Dumbass Deputy
-Venomous podcaster Vinay Prasad out at FDA.
Yet human cassowary and denim enthusiast RFK Jr. remains.
He should be treated with the grace and maturity he showed to his predecessors.
07.03.2026 00:00 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
As a reminder, Prasad endorsed Trump and Kennedy. His responsibility for that doesn’t end when he leaves the FDA. He’s still on the hook.
06.03.2026 23:29 — 👍 44 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
Yeah I think he’s another one who found out that working in a government institution is actually much harder than hosting a podcast.
Good riddance.
Since he performed 0 RCTs we can expect he will STFU and never be heard from again.
06.03.2026 23:04 — 👍 68 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0
