Transcript
Clay Travis (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast. Second hour of play in Buck kicks off now. We are joined by Dr. Marty Makary. He is the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Makary, we appreciate you, sir. We remember you were a truth teller in the dark days of COVID madness. And now you are at the FDA and part of the MAHA approach to America. Make America healthy again. I saw your op ed in the Washington Post on getting drugs approved much more quickly and efficiently. That should be. That would be helpful. But let's just start with this. What is, what is the top of your agenda for maha? How are we going to make America healthy again now that that is your portfolio?
Dr. Marty Makary (0:50)
Well, good to be with you guys. You know, we are changing the entire approach to health care in the United States under Secretary Kennedy. It's not just chemotherapy and insulin and Ozempic. We're now having research on root causes at the NIH. We're investing in the food side of the FDA. People forget that the F&FDA stands for food, not federal. And so we are focused on healthy food for kids. We've got tremendous traction throughout with the petroleum based food dye ban. We're going a step further, looking at all the chemicals in the food supply that are banned in other countries. We are focused on the drug side and device side. More cures for the American people. We'd love to see a cure for certain kinds of cancer, Stage four cancer, drugs that melt away cancer. We want to see a cure for type 1 diabetes, for Alzheimer's. We want to see meaningful treatments for als to see a universal flu shot so we don't have to play a guessing game each year. And one of my personal missions is to make sure that our veterans have a rapid decision on treatments for ptsd.
Buck Sexton (2:05)
I really appreciate you coming on with us and the fact, Dr. Makary and I always want to go back and re emphasize this, that you were one of the truth tellers during COVID And I'm curious now as we are working through the MAHA movement and you have RFK Jr and you have you and Dr. Bhattacharya and I'm sure there's many, many more people that we don't even know the names of. Do you feel in many ways like all of the slings and arrows that you took and that many of your colleagues took have been vindicated in what you said and feel as if, hey, this is an opportunity to rectify a lot of the scientific wrongs on a big picture that came from somebody like Dr. Fauci. Lecturing everyone and saying, I am the science, don't challenge science. It has to feel in some way vindicating to be in the position that you are in now.
Dr. Marty Makary (2:57)
Well, I think this is a time for us to demonstrate humility, the same humility we called for. When you don't know something as a doctor, you just need to say, we don't know, or we think this might be the case. The absolutism that we saw during COVID which was not based on science, but it was under the guise of listen to the experts and don't question us, it did a lot of damage. I mean, ignoring natural immunity, putting masks on toddlers for three years, insisting schools stay shut for a year and a half. Somehow this became partisan and it's really an ugly chapter. So we are trying to demonstrate transparency and humility throughout our health agencies and as role models. And I think, you know, we're making a lot of progress in that way. We, for example, put out a strong warning on myocarditis with the COVID vaccines. We're not approving Covid vaccines for healthy children without a clinical trial first. We're getting back to gold standard science and we're using common sense.
