Four years into the COVID-19 pandemic, with the worst long over and vaccine booster rates well under 10%, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is eager to get more shots in arms of all ages.
But critical doctors and analysts allege that Commissioner Robert Califf is playing fast and loose with scientific research to do it, using his X account to share papers that haven’t been peer-reviewed, proofread or even published in full – and ironically promoting vaccine hesitancy in his crusade for boosting.
“Bob Califf is debasing the office of FDA commissioner,” University of California San Francisco epidemiologist and clinical-trial specialist Vinay Prasad wrote in his newsletter Thursday.
