Two top Wall Street analysts are calling on the White House to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, saying he is “undermining public health.”
The new research note from Cantor Fitzgerald biotechnology analysts Josh Schimmer and Eric Schmidt was spurred by the surprise resignation of Dr. Peter Marks, a top Food and Drug Administration official responsible for regulating vaccines.
The analysts said Monday that the forced departure of Marks, who led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, had been a “step too far for us.”
“RFK Jr. is undermining the trusted leadership of healthcare in this country,” they wrote. “HHS cannot be led by an anti-vax, conspiracy theorist with inadequate training.”
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“We together feel that this is an attack on science, an attack on the normal process of government reviews by a nonscientist, and it’s a very, very slippery slope from here into a dangerous place,” Schmidt told Barron’s in an interview on Monday. “It’s about the science. Its bigger than profits. Its bigger than politics. It’s human lives. That’s where we’re coming from.”
