> I'm not mixing it up. It's a civil role. You said you looked it up. Should be an easy cite. > Peter Marks was the prior head of CBER. He was a civil servant

> I'm not mixing it up. It's a civil role. You said you looked it up. Should be an easy cite. > Peter Marks was the prior head of CBER. He was a civil servant. Those aren't mutually exclusive statuses. Some State Department ambassadors are long-term civil servants; others are political appointees. https://www.newsweek.com/who-vinay-prasad-rfk-jr-taps-pharma-critic-lead-fda-vaccine-program-2068776 https://www.newsweek.com/who-vinay-prasad-rfk-jr-taps-pharma... "Prasad's new role has traditionally been held by an FDA career scientist" > By your standards of "appointment", every job in my life has been a political appointment by my boss. If you were appointed by Federal agency heads, sure. They're the encyclopedia's standards, not mine.