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The Truth about RFK Jr

At Science-Based Medicine Dr. Steven Novella looked back on SBM in 2025. He wrote, "To take a recent example which I think illustrates this well, Mark Crislip just wrote about the current administration’s approach to pandemic preparedness, which focuses on making people healthy to be better able to resist infection. This is a typical wellness narrative, but Mark, who is an infectious disease expert, details that reality is quite different. Organisms evolved to be good at infecting us, and our immune systems are variable, better able to tackle some infections than others. Just relying on good nutrition is folly, it is subjugating science, evidence, and logic to an ideology."
 
The Guardian reported that a number of grant contracts with the American Academy of Pediatrics are being cancelled. "In a statement to the Guardian, AAP CEO, Mark Del Monte, said: “AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the US Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. “This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics.”

The report continued, "HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told the Washington Post that the grants were terminated because they no longer align with departmental priorities."
 
The Guardian reported that a number of grant contracts with the American Academy of Pediatrics are being cancelled. "In a statement to the Guardian, AAP CEO, Mark Del Monte, said: “AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the US Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. “This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics.”

The report continued, "HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told the Washington Post that the grants were terminated because they no longer align with departmental priorities."
 
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Chris_Halkides said:
The Guardian reported that a number of grant contracts with the American Academy of Pediatrics are being cancelled. "In a statement to the Guardian, AAP CEO, Mark Del Monte, said: “AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the US Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. “This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics.”

The report continued, "HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told the Washington Post that the grants were terminated because they no longer align with departmental priorities."
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Remember that Americans, under TACO keeping your kids alive is not a priority.
 
Blue Mountain said:
DEI and excellent science aren't ideological opposites. What MAGA people will forever refuse to recognize is all three parts of DEI—diversity, equality, and inclusion—actually improve outcomes when they applied to the workplace.
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Among their "dismantling DEI" stuff is cutting funding for breast cancer because, you know, it mostly affects women. Curing breast cancer, to them, is DEI.

It's idiocy.
 
At Unbiased Science Jess Steier wrote, "The Hepatitis B birth dose decision wasn’t a good-faith effort to rebuild vaccine confidence by offering more flexibility. Multiple observers at that ACIP meeting described it as predetermined, ideological, and political. Malone tweeted a response to President Trump saying, “Mission Accomplished.” Which mission was that? Members didn’t even understand what they were voting on. No new safety data was presented — just the assertion that absence of a specific type of evidence equals evidence of absence."

CIDRAP reported that the CDC awarded a grant to study the Hep B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). "The new study was awarded without any competition from any other scientists, giving it “the appearance of blatant cronyism,” said Angela Rasmussen, PhD, a virologist and professor at the University of Saskatchewan."

CIDRAP continued, "In June, Kennedy used a single study by the Bandim group to justify canceling more than $1 billion in funding for childhood vaccinations in developing countries. The observational study found an increased risk of death in children who received a combined vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DPT) that hasn’t been used in the United States in three decades...Multiple scientists have criticized the Bandim group’s methodology and conclusions...Rasmussen notes that it would not be ethical to provide a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine to some babies but not others, given that doctors know the immunization saves lives, both in the early newborn period and decades later. Exposing thousands of babies to “a significant risk” of hepatitis B “in a low-income country with limited health care resources” would be “wildly unethical and a disgraceful use of American taxpayer money,” Rasmussen said."
 
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Chris_Halkides said:
At Unbiased Science Jess Steier wrote, "The Hepatitis B birth dose decision wasn’t a good-faith effort to rebuild vaccine confidence by offering more flexibility. Multiple observers at that ACIP meeting described it as predetermined, ideological, and political. Malone tweeted a response to President Trump saying, “Mission Accomplished.” Which mission was that? Members didn’t even understand what they were voting on. No new safety data was presented — just the assertion that absence of a specific type of evidence equals evidence of absence."

CIDRAP reported that the CDC is giving a grant to study the Hep B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). "The new study was awarded without any competition from any other scientists, giving it “the appearance of blatant cronyism,” said Angela Rasmussen, PhD, a virologist and professor at the University of Saskatchewan."

CIDRAP continued, "In June, Kennedy used a single study by the Bandim group to justify canceling more than $1 billion in funding for childhood vaccinations in developing countries. The observational study found an increased risk of death in children who received a combined vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DPT) that hasn’t been used in the United States in three decades...Multiple scientists have criticized the Bandim group’s methodology and conclusions...Rasmussen notes that it would not be ethical to provide a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine to some babies but not others, given that doctors know the immunization saves lives, both in the early newborn period and decades later. Exposing thousands of babies to “a significant risk” of hepatitis B “in a low-income country with limited health care resources” would be “wildly unethical and a disgraceful use of American taxpayer money,” Rasmussen said."
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Not content with killing US babies, RFK Jr. Is intent on killing babies in the developing world too. But they are brown, poor, non-US babies. So that doesn't matter at all.
 
I Am The Scum said:
Yes, of course. I understand...

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My guess is most children having vaginoplasty will have a medical indication, they will be cis females (or androgen insensitive XY 'females' raised from birth as female) who have no or minimal vaginas as a congenital abnormality. Some intersex with genital ambiguity will opt for male and require phalloplasty and scrotoplasty. I guess the assumption is that the children having this operation are transitioning. Most will be becoming their gender assigned at birth. A few intersex with genital ambiguity will be opting.
 
At Unbiased Science Jess Steier and colleagues criticized the move to mimic Denmark's vaccine schedule. They wrote, "...Tracy Beth Høeg, newly named acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, gave a presentation about vaccination practices in Denmark, suggesting that the U.S. follow that country’s approach. This alignment is dangerous and not backed by any sound data or evidence."

They continued, "And the predictable outcome of these actions is not theoretical: more preventable illness, more hospitalizations, more long-term complications, and more deaths—especially among infants, children with chronic conditions, and families with the least access to care. It also means more missed school days for children, more missed work for parents, and higher medical and financial strain on families. Comparing vaccine schedules between countries is like comparing traffic laws between cities."

They also said, "The comparison to Denmark specifically is unhelpful in multiple ways: for one, if we just compare peer nations for the number of diseases vaccinated against, Denmark is the lowest country on the list, so more of a low outlierthan a country that would make sense to compare to the U.S. In addition, Denmark is the smallest country on the list, with only about six million people and a land mass about the size of Maryland. And if we’re comparing peer nations, why stop at Denmark? Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Italy, and Spain all have childhood schedules that look far more like the U.S. than Denmark’s. The U.S. isn’t a high outlier. Denmark is a low outlier, which is presumably why it was chosen...n Denmark, parents are entitled to 46 weeks of paid leave. They have universal healthcare and comprehensive medical records for every person from birth to death. This contrasts with the U.S., where many mothers go to work just a few weeks after giving birth and infants are enrolled in group childcare settings much earlier."
 
At Science Based Medicine Jonathan Howard quoted another article on the leaked memo. "In his memo, Prasad also wrote that “pneumonia vaccine makers will have to show their products reduce pneumonia,” at least after they’re licensed, rather than provide indirect evidence of protection, such as antibody levels. Prasad appears to refer to a childhood pneumonia vaccine that blocks infections with pneumococcus bacteria, which has been updated and improved several times over the years...Pneumococcal vaccines on the market today are approved based on antibody levels that correlate with protection and have been validated over decades, Scott said. Proving that childhood vaccines prevent cases of pneumonia would be difficult, Scott said, because so many pathogens can cause pneumonia, including the flu, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Requiring manufacturers to conduct additional clinical trials every time they want to add additional viral or bacterial strains would delay updates by several years, all the while leaving people vulnerable to the bacteria, Reiss said. Some companies may decide that conducting such trials is too expensive."
 
On social media Dr. Zachary Rubin wrote, "[Attorney Aaron] Siri takes a real but narrow scientific limitation of acellular pertussis vaccines and weaponizes it into a lie. Yes, injected pertussis vaccines don’t reliably produce strong mucosal immunity in the nose and throat, which means they may not completely block colonization or transmission. Scientists have been transparent about this for years.
However, Siri deliberately collapses that nuance into “no effect,” erasing the central purpose of these vaccines: preventing severe disease and death in infants. That framing isn’t an honest misunderstanding, it’s a distortion that trains parents to dismiss protection that keeps babies out of ICUs.
While Siri fixates on transmission, he ignores the outcome that actually matters for children: maternal Tdap during pregnancy dramatically reduces pertussis infections in newborns and cuts hospitalizations by roughly 90%."
 
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