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Just this week, Kennedy’s agency doubled down on this order with the appointment of Vinay Prasad, an oncologist at UC San Francisco, as head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the division at the Food and Drug Administration that oversees vaccine testing.

The testing that Kennedy and Prasad advocate are randomized control trials.

Prasad called the argument false, because “the virus spreads year round.”

Prasad’s new job will put him in charge of developing vaccine testing policies and overseeing the design and approval of clinical trials.

Prasad succeeds Peter Marks, a widely respected expert who resigned from the FDA in March after clashing with Kennedy.