Vinay Prasad will likely be taking an FDA position to oversee vaccine and gene therapies.
For those who don't know about him, this is a good thing. Vinay has done a lot of work criticizing failed or fraudulent cancer screening and cancer therapies that rely on weak measures of success.
He has pointed out that some of the "miracle" cancer drugs only extend lifespan by a few days when looking at the data, and can have serious side effects that make the patients quality of life substantially worse for essentially no benefit.
He has also been a harsh critic of the routine use of mammograms because of their insanely high false positive rate, no evidence of increased survival from breast cancer with their introduction, and overall low benefit to cost ratio. Basically there's no evidence they're beneficial. Alternatives include thermography, ultrasound, and manual exam which all have low risk and good ability to catch true cancer.
Funnily enough if a mammogram shows something they'll often use ultrasound to double check it. So why use a mammogram at all, especially when it can rupture cysts and exposes the breasts to unnecessary radiation?
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I've been following him on Twitter for years. People hate him because he's extremely critical of gene therapies for cancer that are currently being studied, but he's critical because the data coming out on them is nothing favorable and they're being overhyped and giving people false hope (and wasting money).
In essence people seem to think we should be fasttracking new cancer therapies even if they don't help or make things worse.
Also he's a covid vaccine skeptic for similar reasons to the above (they do fuck all).
