The Truth about RFK Jr

If you apply "move fast and break things" to Twitter, the harm done is not that great (which is still not an endorsement of the idea). But government services are a monopoly, and some services, including but not limited to those provided by HHS, are far more essential that the ability to write a Tweet (or are we supposed to say "write an X").
 
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If you apply "move fast and break things" to Twitter, the harm done is not that great (which is still not an endorsement of the idea). But government services are a monopoly, and some services, including but not limited to those provided by HHS, are far more essential that the ability to write a Tweet (or are we supposed to say "write an X").
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For this and many other reasons, government services should not be considered equivalent to a business and Elon Musk should not be considered any sort of expert in how to run them. I agree entirely with you. If Twitter goes down for a day and spends a month going up and down while Musk's kiddies fiddle with the scripts, it really doesn't matter. People who use the service essentially for free are not entitled to any guaranteed service level. Twitter may lose advertising due to the instability, but that's a decision Musk can make which hurts basically only him and those who agree to work for him.

When Elon Musk takes something as fundamentally different from a business as a sprawling government agency and slash it indiscriminately, it's not enough that he patently doesn't know what he's doing. There's a moral hazard. With Twitter, Musk's desire to tinker is limited by the amount of pain he's personally willing to endure in order to get it right—or to create the impression that he's getting it right. If he screws up a government agency whose primary purpose is to serve people who aren't him, he suffers no harm. Any time you are insulated from the consequences of your decision, that creates a moral hazard. Further, Musk's motives may even be counterproductive. He considers anyone receiving a government service to be a parasite. That's a perverse incentive.

I don't think anyone would honestly say that HHS isn't decentralized and inefficient. The key concept is that the services cannot fail. There is a tremendous cost borne by those served with the system fails to work. For that reason, the inefficiency is generally deemed more financially tolerable than wholesale system failure. But if someone comes along who simply ignores costs borne by others, this is what you get.
 
JayUtah said:
For this and many other reasons, government services should not be considered equivalent to a business and Elon Musk should not be considered any sort of expert in how to run them. I agree entirely with you. If Twitter goes down for a day and spends a month going up and down while Musk's kiddies fiddle with the scripts, it really doesn't matter. People who use the service essentially for free are not entitled to any guaranteed service level. Twitter may lose advertising due to the instability, but that's a decision Musk can make which hurts basically only him and those who agree to work for him.

When Elon Musk takes something as fundamentally different from a business as a sprawling government agency and slash it indiscriminately, it's not enough that he patently doesn't know what he's doing. There's a moral hazard. With Twitter, Musk's desire to tinker is limited by the amount of pain he's personally willing to endure in order to get it right—or to create the impression that he's getting it right. If he screws up a government agency whose primary purpose is to serve people who aren't him, he suffers no harm. Any time you are insulated from the consequences of your decision, that creates a moral hazard. Further, Musk's motives may even be counterproductive. He considers anyone receiving a government service to be a parasite. That's a perverse incentive.

I don't think anyone would honestly say that HHS isn't decentralized and inefficient. The key concept is that the services cannot fail. There is a tremendous cost borne by those served with the system fails to work. For that reason, the inefficiency is generally deemed more financially tolerable than wholesale system failure. But if someone comes along who simply ignores costs borne by others, this is what you get.
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And oftentimes too the inefficiency is absolutely necessary. For example in normal circumstances when disease levels are pretty low, a hospital with 20% bed capcity unused and equivalent staffing levels is inefficient. But given the cyclical nature of virus spikes like flu and pneumonia winter outbreaks (not to mention stuff like covid), that buffer becomes absolutely necessary (or even, in some situations, still not enough). All too often efficiency means "the lowest staffing we can get away with in ideal circumstances".
 
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Doctors Who Fluffed RFK Jr.: Here’s What You Own So Far

"Just where is that extensive 5000 word longform apology from Adam Cifu over at Sensible Medicine, begging forgiveness for legitimizing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr?"
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Have a handy summary by Jonathan Howard of what yer man RFK Jr and his minions have managed thus far.

Only another three and three quarters years to go...
 
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Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com)

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.”...
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They're gonna cook the books on that vaccine/autism study, aren't they?
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In a heartbeat.
 
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Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com)

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.”...
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They're gonna cook the books on that vaccine/autism study, aren't they?
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I was just going to post that
 
Resume said:
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Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com)

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.”...
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They're gonna cook the books on that vaccine/autism study, aren't they?
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That is what Steven Novella at SBM predicted. "Tapping David Geier tells us everything we need to know – this is a hit job. In my opinion, Geier has zero credibility in the scientific community due to his long history of crankery in this area. He is not qualified as is evidenced by a long history of shoddy science and discredited conclusions."
 
Medicinal chemist Derek Lowe wrote, "The article (which definitely seems well-sourced and is all too believable) reports that NIH-funded researchers are being told to remove all mentions of mRNA vaccines work from their grant applications...The KFF [Kaiser Family Foundation] team has now seen a similar letter from Memoli directing that "any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported up the chain to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s office and the White House". Think about that for a moment, and how strange it is: you pick out a single research technology, one that has nothing to do with the hot-button diversity and inclusion issues that the administration starting attacking from the beginning. And any work on it now has to be brought to the attention of the acting Director, and then to his boss running HHS, and from him up to White House Staff. Why the hell do people at the White House level concern themselves with messenger RNA?"

The most familiar mRNA-based products are the major Covid-19 vaccines; there are others, however, and there is every reason to suppose that future vaccines could also make use of this technology.
 
This mother ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ administration . . .

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Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social)

•••••••BREAKING.••••••• The measles outbreak in western Texas has hit 481 cases, with 59 new infections confirmed in just the last 3 days. In Texas alone, at least 56 measles patients — mostly children — have been hospitalized thus far. Based upon the steady, often rapid increase in the number..
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Ready the chain and tell me they ain't.

• DOGE funding cuts have led to the immediate closure of over 50 vaccination clinics in Dallas, Texas
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Mother ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊.
 
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NBC reported, "Steep federal funding cuts have forced public health officials in one of Texas’ most populous counties — Dallas — to cancel dozens of vaccination clinics and lay off 21 workers on the front lines of combatting the state’s growing measles outbreak." From what I can gather from this article, the money had originally been allocated for Covid-19.
 
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◊◊◊◊ this guy.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy is actively blocking the release of vital vaccine data in midst of America’s rapidly expanding measles epidemic
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Enough is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ enough already.
 
Resume said:
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Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com)

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.”...
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They're gonna cook the books on that vaccine/autism study, aren't they?
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You think they don't already know the results?

All they need to do is torture the data to make it confess.
 
Okay, so a lot of people, including kids, will die, but hey, we're pwning the libs!1!

shemp said:
It's going to take a lot of deaths and suffering before people wake up. If they wake up.
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A lot. A million deaths in 2016-2020 didn't do it.
 
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s cure for measles is making infected kids even sicker (MSNBC, April 5, 2025)
As of Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services had reported 481 confirmed cases of measles, which would put the total number of cases in the U.S. well over 600 since the start of the year. During all of 2024, fewer than 300 measles cases were reported across the entire United States.
More than 50 children have been hospitalized in Texas, and the vast majority of cases and hospitalizations are occurring in unvaccinated kids. One unvaccinated school-age child has died. In addition to measles itself, another thing is showing up in the routine lab work for unvaccinated children with measles: liver damage. According to the physicians treating such children at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, vitamin A toxicity from high doses of cod liver oil is the most likely culprit.
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Cod liver oil has become the hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin of the measles epidemic.
 
So they're going to prove that vaccines cause autism. And we know from The Telepathy Tapes that autistic kids get superpowers - literally "spiritual gifts" that allow them to communicate telepathically, speak in languages they never learned, and have rich and fulfilling relationships on The Hill.

So we're going to be vaccinating all of the kids, right? Wouldn't it be unethical to withhold these gifts when we know exactly how to bestow them?
 
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