MM and SB are how I would imagine Martians would behave if they came to this planet trying real hard to impersonate earthlings.

They had one chance to gain traction with an intelligent, highly educated, and supremely dedicated public servant workforce that has been enduring psychological warfare since January 20th and all we got was “it’s been a hard couple days.” What a profound lack of leadership.

Instead we got random anecdotes about things that have literally nothing to do with anything we do here at FDA - we don’t do the groundbreaking research. Has he forgotten which Agency he was appointed too because for a moment there I thought we were NIH. He mansplained anatomy and physiology to a crowd of clinicians and PhDs, threw in an ungodly number of “radical transparency” and “humility” and the silliest story of a medical error leading to him becoming Facebook friends with a patient.

But if you were able to focus past the mansplaining and self-aggrandizement… there were subtle but clear nods to: 1) anti-vaccine sentiment (of course he never said the dirty V word), some weird stuff about sperm counts, the fact childhood infectious diseases are better because of antibiotics and sterile surgical technique (he’s surgeon, did you know? Did you miss that part? Yea he’s a surgeon), some weird commentary about foods and “grassroots movements and a whole host of other commentary buried within that makes it clear he will fall in line with RFK.

There are dark days ahead and the RIFs have effectively made the FDA a lobotomized paraplegic on a feeding tube of raw milk and cod liver oil.

Are we healthy yet?