The Truth about RFK Jr

David Wallace-Wells wrote a response to the Bhattacharya/Memoli pandemic playbook. "This is all fine as generic health advice, of course. But 38 million Americans have diabetes. More than 100 million have heart disease. More than 100 million are obese. Massively improve those numbers and there will still be tens of millions staring down a novel pathogen in ill health. And as a program of pandemic response? Like much of MAHA, it is magical thinking that has the secondary effect of laying responsibility for public health outcomes at the feet of the individual. Imagine sitting in the National Institutes of Health, contemplating the arrival of a disease like H.I.V./AIDS, which has killed 700,000 Americans, and advising the country that, as Bhattacharya and Memoli write, “the best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.”"
 
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David Wallace-Wells wrote a response to the Bhattacharya/Memoli pandemic playbook. "This is all fine as generic health advice, of course. But 38 million Americans have diabetes. More than 100 million have heart disease. More than 100 million are obese. Massively improve those numbers and there will still be tens of millions staring down a novel pathogen in ill health. And as a program of pandemic response? Like much of MAHA, it is magical thinking that has the secondary effect of laying responsibility for public health outcomes at the feet of the individual. Imagine sitting in the National Institutes of Health, contemplating the arrival of a disease like H.I.V./AIDS, which has killed 700,000 Americans, and advising the country that, as Bhattacharya and Memoli write, “the best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.”"
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Hundreds of thousands of fit, young, healthy, well-fed Americans died due to Covid before vaccines appeared. Including health-nuts...and babies.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Hundreds of thousands of fit, young, healthy, well-fed Americans died due to Covid before vaccines appeared. Including health-nuts...and babies.
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The problem with this theory is that for every ten years of age mortality doubled whilst diabetes or obesity only increased risk by 30%. You were safer being an obese fifty year old than a slim sixty year old.
 
At Science-Based Medicine Dr. David Gorski wrote, " Specifically, through his useful idiots at the FDA, RFK Jr. is working to weaponize VAERS data to justify making vaccines harder to approve. In this case, the useful is an old “friend” of the blog, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the medical oncologist turned COVID-19 contrarian turned antivax-adjacent who is now in charge of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the center at the Food and Drug Administration responsible for approving and regulating vaccines and biologics..."

Dr. Gorski continued, "Does anyone remember Biden-era pandemic-era Dr. Prasad? One of his main complaints about The Powers That Be at FDA and CDC was a “lack of transparency” in how the CDC developed its recommendations and the FDA approved vaccines and evaluated adverse events due to vaccines. This story, more than anything else, shows that, under the guise of “greater transparency” what Dr. Prasad is doing is anything but transparency and basically boils down to, “Trust me, bro.” Indeed, one of the first things that struck me about these stories and about Dr. Prasad’s email, the full text of which is now widely available, is the utter lack of transparency and the arrogance and dismissiveness of its author." Dr. Gorski quoted a portion of a story at WaPo:

Vinay Prasad, an FDA official whose approach to vaccine policy has been championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told agency officials that the FDA will rethink its framework for annual flu shots, examine whether Americans should be receiving multiple vaccines at the same time and require vaccine makers to show far more data to prove the safety and value of their products. For instance, Prasad said that pneumonia vaccine makers must demonstrate that their products reduce pneumonia, at least after they become available in the market, rather than just generate antibodies to fight infections.

Prasad also wrote that the new approach means the agency will have strict requirements for authorizing new vaccines for pregnant women. He concluded his lengthy email by maintaining that he was open-minded about next steps.

“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
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Now there’s the arrogant, dismissive Dr. Prasad we’ve all come to know and detest! Just listen to him! He proclaims himself to be open to “vigorous discussion and debate”; that is, unless you disagree with the core principles of his new approach, in which case you should resign. Indeed, this email is quite consistent with previous reports of the vindictiveness and paranoia with which Dr. Prasad runs CBER, which have led to a hemorrhaging of career scientists.

To recap, yes, myocarditis among young people was an adverse event noted in Israel and the US within a few months of the rollout of the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. This discovery, according to Dr. Prasad in his email, was “missed” by the CDC and FDA (it wasn’t). Dr. Angela Rasmussen provides a nice summary, describing a study in which Høeg and Prasad dumpster-dove into the VAERS database:

In reality, Høeg and colleagues estimated a rate of myocarditis in adolescent boys receiving the second dose of an mRNA vaccine to be more than twice the rate (162/million vaccines) calculated by an actually qualified team led by vaccine safety experts from CDC (71/million vaccines). Both studies used data from VAERS, although the CDC inclusion criteria were more stringent than Høeg’s, and thus more likely to exclude cases that were not relevant to assessing the risk of myocarditis from vaccination.

Prasad and Høeg also evidently ignored data showing that vaccine-induced myocarditis rates have declined further in the years since Høeg’s initial study, as well as data showing that the risk of myocarditis is much, much higher from COVID infection than vaccination.
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I also deconstructed the Høeg/Prasad study, characterizing it as typical VAERS dumpster-diving, a continuation of a common antivax trope of weaponizing VAERS to portray vaccines as dangerous. I also have to tip my hat to our own Dr. Jonathan Howard for steering me to this paper, which suggests that myocarditis after vaccination might actually be less common than thought..."
 
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The problem with this theory is that for every ten years of age mortality doubled whilst diabetes or obesity only increased risk by 30%. You were safer being an obese fifty year old than a slim sixty year old.
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Mr. Wallace-Wells made a similar point: "You’d rather have been thin than obese in 2020, but you’d rather have been an obese 40-year-old than a fit 50-year-old. What does that tell you about the pandemic value of good health?"

The anti-nicotine Truth Initiative wrote, "On April 1 [2025], the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced sweeping cuts that have profound impacts on federal tobacco control efforts. Many foundational systems supporting tobacco use prevention, cessation, research, and public education have been substantially reduced or eliminated entirely." The new pandemic playbook stated, "Whether simply by stopping smoking, controlling hypertension or diabetes, or getting up and walking more, anything that makes the population healthier will prepare us better for the next pandemic." I look forward to the cutbacks being reversed.
 
Concerning the recent memo implying that the FDA had failed to follow up VAERS reports of children's deaths, Dr. Amy Cho stated, "It doesn’t even pass the smell test. I know (because I actually practice medicine) that pediatric deaths that are unexpected are *always* medical examiner cases." A former FDA official stated, "“I can tell you on a stack of Bibles that we looked through all of the autopsy reports and that we didn’t find anything,” the official said in a text message. “Unless someone was hiding them from us I don’t know what they’re referring to.”"

Dr. Jonathan Howard also wrote, "Dr. Prasad is an oncologist while Dr. Hoeg is a sports medicine doctor who has offered unproven treatments previously. Neither has expertise in cardiology or vaccines, which has been evident for years...In February 2022, as the pediatric death toll surged past 1,000, Dr. Prasad authored blatantly pro-infection articles. “Getting sick and recovering is part of a natural and healthy life,” he wrote in his article Should We Let Children Catch Omicron? “It is reckless to let children age into a more serious encounter with a disease best dealt with while younger,” he said. This was at the end of the Omicron wave, the worst part of the pandemic for children, when 5-6 children died daily and nearly 1,000 children were hospitalized daily. None of this moved Dr. Prasad at all. He said people who even acknowledge it were “idiots“."

“You need clear evidence to make a statement like that” about deaths, Paul Offit, director of the vaccine education center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told Endpoints. By clear evidence, Offit pointed to an autopsy showing “a damaged myocardium was the reason that that child died,” as well as proof that the child wasn’t also infected with Covid and/or another virus that could cause myocarditis."
 
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Concerning the recent memo implying that the FDA had failed to follow up VAERS reports of children's deaths, Dr. Amy Cho stated, "It doesn’t even pass the smell test. I know (because I actually practice medicine) that pediatric deaths that are unexpected are *always* medical examiner cases." A former FDA official stated, "“I can tell you on a stack of Bibles that we looked through all of the autopsy reports and that we didn’t find anything,” the official said in a text message. “Unless someone was hiding them from us I don’t know what they’re referring to.”"

Dr. Jonathan Howard also wrote, "Dr. Prasad is an oncologist while Dr. Hoeg is a sports medicine doctor who has offered unproven treatments previously. Neither has expertise in cardiology or vaccines, which has been evident for years...In February 2022, as the pediatric death toll surged past 1,000, Dr. Prasad authored blatantly pro-infection articles. “Getting sick and recovering is part of a natural and healthy life,” he wrote in his article Should We Let Children Catch Omicron? “It is reckless to let children age into a more serious encounter with a disease best dealt with while younger,” he said. This was at the end of the Omicron wave, the worst part of the pandemic for children, when 5-6 children died daily and nearly 1,000 children were hospitalized daily. None of this moved Dr. Prasad at all. He said people who even acknowledge it were “idiots“."
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I reject your reality and substitute my own! :crazy:
 
Derek Lowe, the host of In the Pipeline, wrote, "Meanwhile, at the FDA, confusion reigns. Which is exactly what you don’t want in such a regulatory agency. The FDA needs clarity and consistency, firmness of purpose and to ability to let everyone know where everyone stands. Clinical trial designs, manufacturing oversight, fast-track designations, drug approvals (and conditional approvals and rescinded approvals). . .there is no room for winging it. Drug development is a long and hideously expensive task with plenty of twists and turns, and without clear well-thought-out regulatory processes it can rapidly descend into a nightmarish free-for-all that wastes time, wastes money, and endangers the public. A big part of my loud objections to some of the FDA decisions and approvals over the years has been when they don’t seem to be following their own rules, because that’s such a dangerous way to work. Welcome to 2025, then. I can’t tell what the hell is going on, and I don’t think anyone else can either."
 
At Unbiased Science Jess Steier and colleagues previewed this week's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting, "Credible sources suggest none—or very few—of the ACIP presentations will be delivered by CDC scientists or experts. Instead, external groups, including some with clear anti-vaccine track records, are slated to take the lead. This is highly unusual, and I’m incredibly concerned that data will be misinterpreted and misleading, and false claims will be presented as expert testimony. Reviewing the timing, spacing, and risks of each vaccine requires scientific expertise because the stakes are high: get the evidence or timing wrong—or lose sight of the historical reasons behind these recommendations—and preventable diseases can come roaring back. And once falsehoods are aired in this forum, they can spread quickly, potentially amplified by one of the nation’s highest offices."

Slate published an interview with Dr. Paul Offit. "Some people would say, “Well, then just test the mother. See if the mother has hepatitis B. If she does, then you vaccinate the baby.” What would you say to that?"
"Great, but it makes a few assumptions. There’s about a 5 percent false-negative rate, meaning falsely reassuring. Two, it assumes that you haven’t been infected in your second and third trimester. Three, it also assumes that when the child is between 1 and 5 years of age and goes to a day care center, everybody that person comes in contact with at that day care center is not chronically infected.

Most people who are chronically infected with hepatitis B in this country, and there are millions, don’t know they’re infected, and they are highly contagious—50 to 100 times more contagious than human immunodeficiency virus, the cause of AIDS."
 
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