At the end of the day, people just want to be heard. And then they want officials to turn what they said into action. @spencerpratt is the kind of unicorn we need an entire herd of.
Two days ago, Spencer Pratt held a cookout at Jim Gilliam Park in the Jungles. A week earlier, Rolling 60s territory. Politicians avoid these neighborhoods, scared of the anger from decades of neglect.
Spencer showed up anyway. Broke bread. Listened.
This is a new Los Angeles.
@PattyMurray Really? Read how the abortion pill nearly killed a member of my family, and how the @FDA currently hides adverse effects like hers, and then let's talk. https://t.co/q1yHAEKzJP
@PattyMurray Really @PattyMurray. Read how the abortion pill nearly killed a member of my family, and how the @FDA currently hides adverse effects like hers, and then let's talk. https://t.co/q1yHAEKzJP
Five days ago I connected Peter Pitts’ argument on delayed approvals to the ongoing #NurOwn debate.
Today, he joins the @BrainstormCell Board.
What makes this noteworthy is that the discussion is shifting from whether regulatory flexibility should exist to how it should be applied.
In diseases with near-certain mortality and profound unmet need, the ethical burden should not rest solely on approving too early. It must also account for approving too late.
Peter Pitts has long been willing to confront that uncomfortable reality: that delay is not a neutral decision, and that patients bear the consequences when systems become more focused on eliminating uncertainty than addressing urgent unmet need.
His experience at the FDA, combined with his willingness to challenge conventional thinking, brings an important perspective to this conversation.
Welcome, @PeterPitts ! I hope your voice helps advance a more patient-centered approach to evaluating therapies for those facing terminal diseases with few remaining options. @FDA_KyleD@houmanhemmati@LoriMills4CA42@Christina4HD@KerriHT@SecKennedy@aVoice4ALS@MinoShah@DrPatrick@bullishbruk@realDonaldTrump
There appears to be a broader cultural shift happening at FDA around rare disease flexibility, single-study evidence discussions, and patient-centered benefit/risk framing.
This is exactly what needs to happen. Now let’s see some serious movement in ALS, HD, and cancer. The US needs to lead in innovation. @houmanhemmati@FDA_KyleD@LoriMills4CA42@PeterPitts@aVoice4ALS@Christina4HD@bullishbruk
Interesting move when you’re running in the #1 beef producing state.
Thank heaven for looney googles put on by people who can’t read the room and have no business being elected.
James Talarico: "I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign. We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses." #TXsen
Someone send this loon a Bible, he seems to have confused it with a Planned Parenthood pamphlet.
I assume in "trusting women to make decisions about their own bodies" includes knowing how babies are made ... ? And what to do (or not do) to prevent it ... @LilaGraceRose@sgruber91@nrlc@sbaprolife@AUL@FRCdc@LifeSite@marjoriesba@PYNance
James Talarico: “I trust women to make decisions about their own bodies. I don’t think that’s a place for government. That’s a belief I hold not despite my faith, but because of my faith. Jesus never talks about abortion. The Bible is silent on abortion.”
🚨WHAT?!!!
Over TWO HUNDRED American flags were VANDALIZED by "teens" at a North Carolina Veterans Memorial Park over the weekend...
...TWICE!!!
Residents frantically replaced hundreds of flags only to wake up and find them vandalized AGAIN in the morning.
Even a wreath that was placed on the VIETNAM MEMORIAL was SHREDDED by the teens.
THIS IS DISGUSTING!!!!
There are 1.2 million aborted babies in the US every year. There are 18K babies who die at birth. You do the math. And @Kate2429_ , that is absolutely ridiculous argument. Because infants tragically die at birth, we should just abort them first? Do you even see the flaws in your own logic?
Ah, but I wish that were true. Yes, it is a simplification of a complex situation, limited by word count. But the idea that Prasad and Makary left because of COVID is not only untrue, but diminishes the negative impact their decisions had on millions of patients, including kids with terminal illnesses.
COVID, past and present, had absolutely nothing to do with why they left. Zero. It had to do with blocking treatments without scientific reason for millions of rare disease patients and refusing to take adverse effect reporting deficiencies on Mifepristone seriously.
So, to sum up: Marty Makary, Tracy Hoeg, and Vinay Prasad started to investigate suspicious pediatric deaths after administration of the Covid vaccine.
One year later, all three officials are gone (resigned or forced to resign) and the FDA is still/anew recommending the Covid vaccine to small children.
Science!