The Truth about RFK Jr

JayUtah said:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled some time ago that "clinics" that are actually political action organizations cannot be made to disclose that they are not staffed by qualified doctors and that they are not dispensing bona fide medical advice. To force them to do so would be a violation of their First Amendment rights.
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Ah because impersonating a doctor is not a crime.
 
bruto said:
True, and the leaders who ought to know better are the villains here. And they know it too. The suffering of individuals is nothing to them beside the splendor of their dreams. What's the death of a few busloads of children compared to your face on a mountainside?

The parents' implacable error is not that far beyond understanding under the circumstances. We're all inclined to look for excuses, and it is, after all, very hard for a parent to admit that their ignorance and gullibility caused the needless death of a child, especially when you have the trite religious twaddle of being sent back to God's loving arms to fall back on. We can wish people in general had more character, integrity and intelligence, but these people are not special, only conspicuous.
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I see the parents differently. They know, deep down, that through their anti-vaxx ideology that they murdered their child through callous and malicious indifference and they are spinning madly to get out of the resulting cognitive dissonance.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
I see the parents differently. They know, deep down, that through their anti-vaxx ideology that they murdered their child through callous and malicious indifference and they are spinning madly to get out of the resulting cognitive dissonance.
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I agree, mostly, but I can at least understand why they reject what they know in order to shuck their responsibility and preserve their delusions; but stupid and harmful as their beliefs are, I do not believe "indifference" to apply here. The same is not true of those whose feckless cynicism and hypocrisy serve only themselves and their crackpot ideology at the expense of others' lives. Their sin is indifference at best.
 
HHS is cutting 10,000 employees. "This comes on top of 10,000 employees who’ve left voluntarily, shrinking the workforce from about 82,000 full-time employees to 62,000...“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. “This Department will do more – a lot more – at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”"

There is nothing about making fighting infectious disease a priority in this article. The notion of doing more with fewer resources is, at best, magical thinking. This story, on top of the story about a new study on the imaginary link between vaccines and autism, has made this a very depressing week regarding the Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS).
 
Chris_Halkides said:
HHS is cutting 10,000 employees. "This comes on top of 10,000 employees who’ve left voluntarily, shrinking the workforce from about 82,000 full-time employees to 62,000...“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. “This Department will do more – a lot more – at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”"

There is nothing about making fighting infectious disease a priority in this article. The notion of doing more with fewer resources is, at best, magical thinking. This story, on top of the story about a new study on the imaginary link between vaccines and autism, has made this a very depressing week regarding the Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS).
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RFK Jr wants more children to die.
 
Last November Jonathan Jarry wrote, "To this day, 1.2 million Americans have died of COVID-19. Had the [Great Barrington] Declaration been followed to the letter, many more would have paid its price with their lives. It is now abundantly clear that a prior infection of COVID-19 does not grant us lifelong immunity; that, though the vaccines are effective, even those of us vaccinated against the virus can catch it and transmit it; and that long COVID is real. In April 2021, however, Bhattacharya was telling podcast listeners that the central problem right now was “the fear that people still feel about COVID.”...
Note: If you need more evidence that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was wrong about COVID-19 and misled the public in multiple interviews, I invite you to spend a few hours reading through Dr. Jonathan Howard’s documentation of Bhattacharya’s falsehoods at Science-Based Medicine."

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya will head the NIH. Fasten your seat belts.
 
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This jagoff needs to be stopped jailed.

West Texas has been hit hard by a measles outbreak fueled by anti-vaxxer parents who refused to get their children vaccinated against a preventable illness. Instead, a lot of these anti-vaxxers turned to the advice of wackos, like random dip****s on social media or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., both of whom have the same level of credibility when it comes to public health and safety.
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Kennedy, one of the aforementioned dip****s, heartily recommended alternative remedies for fighting off measles, like cod liver oil, which contains high levels of vitamin A, citing two West Texas doctors who were advocating for cod liver oil as a treatment.
Some parents did exactly that, and now their children are in the hospital suffering from vitamin A overdoses. These children are now suffering from liver damage, and their skin has turned yellow, on top of the fact that some of them have measles. It feels like someone should be arrested. Like, this is definitely child endangerment, maybe even abuse, right?

In an interview with Fox Nation, RFK Jr. said that using cod liver oil to fight measles had led to an “almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery.” He said this because he’s a stupid maniac who is in no way qualified for the job. He belongs on a conspiracy theory forum, not dictating our nation’s health policies.
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Gee, I wonder what this is all about?

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Public health experts are sounding the alarm over recent move by the NIH to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technology

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Jessica Glenza in New York
Thu 27 Mar 2025 06.00 EDT
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A cutting-edge technology expected to foster new medical breakthroughs in treatments for cancers and infectious disease is being treated “like a four-letter word” inside the Trump administration, causing panic among scientists who fear Trump-appointed health officials, driven by misinformation and conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 vaccine, will cut critical research in the field.

Scientists and public health experts interviewed by the Guardian are sounding the alarm over a recent move by the National Institutes of Health to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technology.


Some fear it is the first step in a move to cut or defund grants that involve the technology, which was an essential component in the rapid creation of vaccines against Covid-19, a major accomplishment of the first Trump term in fighting the pandemic.


Messenger RNA technology, which in the case of Covid-19 teaches the body to fight infection by introducing immune cells to the coronavirus’s characteristic spike proteins, is being tested for use against diseases ranging from bird flu and dengue, to pancreatic cancer and melanoma.

While the NIH has not formally stated that it is cutting mRNA vaccine and therapy research, scientists who were interviewed by the Guardian said they have been told informally that the NIH is performing key word searches on grants that mention mRNA vaccine-related technology and related phrases.

“Colleagues have also been advised not to apply for mRNA vaccine grants. This is all through the grapevine. There has not been an official statement about it,” said one New York-based scientist.

The NIH confirmed in a statement to the Guardian that it made a “data call” to learn more information about the funding of mRNA vaccine grants. Nature, the scientific journal, first reported the data call, and said it had been conducted by the acting NIH director, Matthew Memoli, on 6 March. Scientists were given one day to report the information, and NIH collected information about 130 mRNA grants as a result.

Many of the scientists, public health experts and medical researchers interviewed by the Guardian spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing that they might be targeted if they expressed concerns publicly. One former senior NIH official who resigned recently said what was happening inside the organization was “not understandable”.
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NYT: "Health officials said the recent popularity of vitamin A use for measles could be traced back to a Fox News interview with Mr. Kennedy, in which he said he had heard of “almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery” with treatments like cod liver oil, which he said was “the safest application of vitamin A.”"

I will set aside for a moment the fact that Vitamin A is not a cure. RFK, Jr is not a doctor; he has no training in judging medical treatments. Nor is it the job of the HHS Secretary to be directly involved in answering such a question. My head is about to explode.
 
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Why RFK Jr.’s pick for a vaccine-autism review may be familiar to Retraction Watch readers

David Geier and his father Mark speak to Fox News in 2022. When it comes to conversations about vaccines and autism, we always have plenty to write about. And the latest news that the Trump adminis…
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The Trump administration wants to prioritize replicating medical research, Axios and others have reported, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggesting in his confirmation hearing that at least 20 percent of the NIH budget should go toward replication efforts. But studies of a link between vaccines and autism diagnoses have failed to find a connection time and time again.

“We have already done that many times over. It wastes valuable resources to revisit the same question instead of using them to address critical health challenges,” David Higgins, a practicing pediatrician and health services researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Axios. “Reexamining settled questions that have already been repeated, replicated, and tested many times is not healthy skepticism; it’s cynicism and science denial.”
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"Geier’s first appearance in Retraction Watch was in 2017, when Science and Engineering Ethics, a Springer Nature title, retracted a paper on how conflicts of interest might influence research on the link between vaccines and autism. That paper has been cited 13 times according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. While there’s irony in the retraction of a paper on conflicts of interest for issues with conflicts of interest, the key part of that story is that the journal replaced it with a new version of the paper with an updated conflict of interest statement and changes throughout — and this paper remains intact." Retraction Watch.

Why 20% of the NIH budget should ever go to replication is open to question, given how much new work needs to be done.
 
Chris_Halkides said:
"Geier’s first appearance in Retraction Watch was in 2017, when Science and Engineering Ethics, a Springer Nature title, retracted a paper on how conflicts of interest might influence research on the link between vaccines and autism. That paper has been cited 13 times according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. While there’s irony in the retraction of a paper on conflicts of interest for issues with conflicts of interest, the key part of that story is that the journal replaced it with a new version of the paper with an updated conflict of interest statement and changes throughout — and this paper remains intact." Retraction Watch.

Why 20% of the NIH budget should ever go to replication is open to question, given how much new work needs to be done.
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Replication is neglected across all sciences so, ostensibly, more relication is a good thing. However, I wouldn't trust these quacks to carry it out.
 
johnny karate said:
It’s only purpose is to serve as a precursor for banning vaccines. RFK Jr wants children to die.
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I'm not entirely convinced that he actually wants children to die, though the end result hardly makes a difference. To want this requires a dimension of thought, purpose and attention to reality that is beneath him if you're him, beyond him if you're not. I think the delusion of his greatness and wisdom and his Kennedy entitlement makes him too abstract to consider actual children actually dying as an issue. Caring is for the woke raggy rabble. As we march boldly to the golden dome we cannot waste our tears on the bugs beneath our feet.
 
bruto said:
I'm not entirely convinced that he actually wants children to die, though the end result hardly makes a difference. To want this requires a dimension of thought, purpose and attention to reality that is beneath him if you're him, beyond him if you're not. I think the delusion of his greatness and wisdom and his Kennedy entitlement makes him too abstract to consider actual children actually dying as an issue. Caring is for the woke raggy rabble. As we march boldly to the golden dome we cannot waste our tears on the bugs beneath our feet.
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I'm not convinced either, but he's so off his rocker, I'm not unconvinced.
 
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