Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast.

Today we're going to go inside the Belleaguered FDA where the top two vaccine reviewers quit over

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One of the first things you may rightly ask yourself when you hear this interview today is

why has nothing been done about this health scandal and so many others that it implies.

Congressman Tom Massey is a Republican from Kentucky who heads a Judiciary Committee

subcommittee that just held a hearing looking into various COVID-related

outrages including the resignation of the FDA's two top vaccine reviewers.

We'll also talk about the government's efforts to conflate long

COVID or COVID-related injuries with vaccine injuries. Here's the interview.

Do you think any particular news was made at

your hearing? Yeah, I think one of the big revelations is yes they always tell you don't ask a question unless you know the answer.

Well, I didn't know the answer to this. I asked Philip Krause, the number two vaccine

reviewer in the United States,

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