The Truth about RFK Jr

Axios reported, "The Trump administration canceled a nearly $600 million award to Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday. Why it matters: It ends one of the remaining Biden-era efforts aimed at creating vaccines for pandemic preparedness. But the company said it would explore alternatives for further developing and manufacturing the shot."
 
Chris_Halkides said:
Axios reported, "The Trump administration canceled a nearly $600 million award to Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday. Why it matters: It ends one of the remaining Biden-era efforts aimed at creating vaccines for pandemic preparedness. But the company said it would explore alternatives for further developing and manufacturing the shot."
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Yeah, take that, Demoncrats!
 
NPR reported, ""This is not simply about efficacy — it's about safety, integrity, and trust. The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public," [HHS Communications Director Andrew] Nixon said...Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University's Pandemic Center, said the decision was "disappointing, but unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous."..."This decision puts the lives and health of the American people at risk," said Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown School of Public Health, who served as President Biden's COVID-19 response coordinator."
 
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NPR reported, ""This is not simply about efficacy — it's about safety, integrity, and trust. The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public," Nixon said...Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University's Pandemic Center, said the decision was "disappointing, but unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous.""
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Bull-◊◊◊◊. The mRNA vaccines have a 30-year history of testing. More than most vaccines ever.
 
MedPageToday reported, ""While the termination of funding from HHS adds uncertainty, we are pleased by the robust immune response and safety profile observed in this interim analysis," the company [Moderna] said in a statement...Moderna received $176 million in July 2024 and $590 million in January. The January award would have supported a late-stage clinical trial that could have determined the vaccine's efficacy against pandemic viruses, including bird flu, a company spokesman said."
 
I know it was mentioned in the Trump Term 2 thread, but it seems appropriate to put a link here too:

www.theguardian.com

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
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Basically RFK Jr's MAHA reprt is full of lies and untruths, made up papers, all carefully placed in a bed of bovine manure.

Personally, I'd be more surprised if it contained anything actually clinically and scientifically accurate.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
I know it was mentioned in the Trump Term 2 thread, but it seems appropriate to put a link here too:

www.theguardian.com

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Basically RFK Jr's MAHA reprt is full of lies and untruths, made up papers, all carefully placed in a bed of bovine manure.

Personally, I'd be more surprised if it contained anything actually clinically and scientifically accurate.
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I found RFK Jrs book with Fauci in the title in a Goddwill store. It has hundreds of references and footnotes. None of them go to a peer reviewed paper.
 
Tero said:
I found RFK Jrs book with Fauci in the title in a Goddwill store. It has hundreds of references and footnotes. None of them go to a peer reviewed paper.
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It also contains acknowledgments to all kinds of absolute weirdo cranks such as germ-theory deniers, anti-vaxxers (obvs!), and other assorted ghouls, supplement slingers and alt med enthusiasts.
 
I was at the dentist's today and the higienist was lamenting that the tick season is upon us and some of her friends south of here are afraid even to go to the beach because they're so bad in the beach grass. And I was thinking, I think there's been some good progress on a Lyme disease vaccine, but then I realize we'll not likely see it even if it comes out, because old wormbrain will probably claim that the vaccine causes recalcitrant plebny and besides, ticks are really mother nature's way of keeping you fit and loaded for bear. I'd say "◊◊◊◊ that guy, " but I'd begrudge him the pleasure.
 
MedPageToday reported, "Asked about the report's problems, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report will be updated. "I understand there was some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed and the report will be updated," Leavitt told reporters during her briefing. "But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government." The report is supposed to be used to develop policy recommendations that will be released later this year. The White House has requested a $500 million boost in funding from Congress for Kennedy's MAHA initiative."
 
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MedPageToday reported, "Asked about the report's problems, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report will be updated. "I understand there was some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed and the report will be updated," Leavitt told reporters during her briefing. "But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government." The report is supposed to be used to develop policy recommendations that will be released later this year. The White House has requested a $500 million boost in funding from Congress for Kennedy's MAHA initiative."
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Well, that's ANOTHER half a billion dollars wasted in the US health care system... Where is DOGE when you REALLY need them!
 
Carrot Flower King said:
I know it was mentioned in the Trump Term 2 thread, but it seems appropriate to put a link here too:
www.theguardian.com

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
Basically RFK Jr's MAHA reprt is full of lies and untruths, made up papers, all carefully placed in a bed of bovine manure.
Personally, I'd be more surprised if it contained anything actually clinically and scientifically accurate.
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From X:
Integral Answers on X, May 29, 2025
Fabricated and Misleading Citations in the MAHA Report
The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) report claims to be grounded in science.
But when you dig into the references—it starts to fall apart.
Let’s take a look.
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1/ Many references in the MAHA report are non-existent.
Examples include studies with fake journal names, untraceable authors, or fabricated titles:
“Swanson & Mahoney, American Journal of Clinical Therapeutics, 2019”
No such journal. No such article.

2/ Some citations use fake or misleading journal names.
One reference cites the International Journal of Vaccine Outcomes—which does not exist in any indexed medical database. It sounds official. It’s not.

3/ Other studies are real, but their conclusions are twisted.
One paper cited to support vaccine harm actually concluded vaccinated patients had better ICU outcomes. The MAHA report cherry-picks and distorts.

4/ Some citations don’t list journals at all.
“K. Smith, ‘Immune drift and toxin buildup’, 2017”
No venue, no traceable author, and “toxin buildup” isn’t even a real immunological term.

5/ There’s a pattern of scientific mimicry.
Some references use journal names that resemble reputable sources but don’t exist:
Journal of Cellular Immunotoxicology — sounds legit, but doesn’t exist.

6/ Why it matters:
Scientific reports rise or fall based on the strength and credibility of their sources. If the references are fake or misrepresented, the entire premise collapses.

7/ Bottom line:
The MAHA report doesn’t just raise health concerns—it raises credibility concerns. If we want real solutions for childhood health, they must be based on real science.
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"How to achieve an optimal diversity of viewpoints in a university is a difficult problem and an obsession of our council. Of course, not every viewpoint should be represented. The universe of ideas is infinite, and many of them are not worthy of serious attention, such as astrology, flat earthism, and Holocaust denial. The demand of the Trump administration to audit Harvard’s programs for diversity and jawbone a “critical mass” of government-approved contrarians into the noncompliant ones would be poisonous both to the university and to democracy. The biology department could be forced to hire creationists, the medical school vaccine skeptics and the history department denialists of the 2020 election. Harvard had no choice but to reject the ultimatum, becoming an unlikely folk hero in the process."
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(Steven Pinker)
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So RFK Jr’s “special advisor” is claiming that the COVID vaccine “will be completely pulled off the market for EVERYONE very sooN. THEN an investigation” while abandoning the millions of Americans disabled by SARS-CoV-2.
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These lying-ass, dangerous mother ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ have to go.
 
RFK Jr. ‘cannot remain in office’ after MAHA report cited fake studies: Doctor (MSNBC on YouTube, May 30, 2025 - 9:03 min.)
NOTUS and the New York Times are reporting that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Health Again” cited fake studies. New York Times Political Reporter Maggie Astor, senior research scholar at Columbia University Dr. Irwin Redlener and former Romney presidential campaign advisor Kevin Madden join Chris Jansing to react and to discuss the impact on families making health care decisions.
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I think it's most likely that he both can and will remain in office.
 
This is beyond parody!
Trump administration’s MAHA report riddled with fake citations (CNN on YouTube, Man 30, 2025 - 8:03 min.)
The first report from the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission, released last week, appears to be rife with errors, including some studies that don’t exist. The citation errors were first reported by NOTUS, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news site created by former Politico Publisher Robert Allbritton.
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0:49--> Jasmyn Wright asking Karoline Leavitt a question: "I noticed the investigation found that the hallmark MAHA Commission report that was released last week cites studies that appear to not exist. We know that because, in part, we reached out to some of the listed authors who said that they didn't write the studies cited.
So I want to ask, does the White House have confidence that the information coming fromHHS can be trusted?"

Karoline Leavitt: "Yes. We have complete confidence in Secretary Kennedy and his team at HHS.
I understand there were some formatting issues with the report that are being addressed in the report will be updated.
But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government, is and is backed on good science that has never been recognized by the federal government."
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But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government, is and is
backed on good science that has never been recognized by the federal government.
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Yeah, sure it is.
 
they're just so obviously lying scammers that it's a little fruitless to point out that because the report is based on a bunch of fake studies, it's as we don't know that it's based on good science
 
dirtywick said:
they're just so obviously lying scammers that it's a little fruitless to point out that because the report is based on a bunch of fake studies, it's as we don't know that it's based on good science
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"Now that is good science —there's no real evidence for it—but it is good science."
 
dann said:
This is beyond parody!
Trump administration’s MAHA report riddled with fake citations (CNN on YouTube, Man 30, 2025 - 8:03 min.)
The first report from the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission, released last week, appears to be rife with errors, including some studies that don’t exist. The citation errors were first reported by NOTUS, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news site created by former Politico Publisher Robert Allbritton.
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These are not 'errors', they are fabrications, deliberate falsehoods, intentional untruths...

You know, LIES.
 
I don't think AIs can lie. They just do what their owners or users tell them to do.

As for Karoline Leavitt, she reminds me of the kind of student that we have probably all come across: somebody who has learned early on that it is a safe strategy to repeat and never question whatever the teacher says. They annoy the hell out of everybody else but are appreciated by weak teachers who rely on their position as authorities instead of on their actual knowledge.
As a teacher, I sometimes played the devil's advocate to undermine the strategy. They hate that. Nothing scares them more than having to think for themselves. Trump also hates nothing more than underlings who think for themselves, so they are an ideal couple in this respect - especially now that Ivanka seems to have abandoned him.

The one who came up with the excuse "some formatting issues" was probably the one who was tasked with putting the report together, whoever that may have been. I don't think RFK Jr. would think of it. One of the others would have had to do it before the ones in charge of MAHA signed off on it without reading anything other than the conclusions.
Marty Makary? Jay Bhattacharya? One of the assistants, like Tracy Beth Høeg? (Denmark's contribution to MAHA, sorry! 🤢 )
 
MAGA's, i.e. Senator Joni Ernst's, Nazi eugenics.
Not about RFK Jr., but it's in the context of health-care reductions.
Worst possible answer: Ernst downplays death as consequence of purging Medicaid (MSNBC on YouTube, May 31, 2025 - 8:34 min.)
Responding to voters at a town hall concerned that removing people from the Medicaid rolls would have dire consequences, including death, Senator Joni Ernst replied, "Well, we all are going to die." The outrage in response was instantaneous. Nathan Sage, Ernst's Democratic opponent, joins Jen Psaki to share his thoughts.
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1:19--> Ernst said this:
"They are not eligible, so they will be coming off. So people are not well. We are all going to die, so for heaven's sakes for heaven's sakes, folks."
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Norine Dworkin interviewed vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit on 23 May. Dr. Offit said, "Obviously if they ever advance to not vaccinating children, then there will be a big price to pay. Just last year, 150 children died of covid. Eighteen hundred children died of covid throughout the whole pandemic. Children can die of covid. I’ve seen it. It happened in our hospital. We had three floors of covid when covid hit in 2020 and 2021. Three floors. We canceled elective surgeries. We were overwhelmed by that virus. Children can get sick from this virus."
 
From the Associated Press, "“The announcement from earlier this week sounded like CDC was going to fully withdraw any statement that could be construed as a recommendation for these vaccines in these populations,” said Jason Schwartz, a Yale University health policy researcher. “It’s not as bad as it could have been.”...That kind of recommendation, known as shared decision-making, still means health insurers must pay for the vaccinations, according to the CDC. However, experts say vaccination rates tend to be lower when health authorities use that language and doctors are less emphatic with patients about getting shots."
 
Lysenko v Kennedy.

Lysenko has been called the scientist responsible for more deaths than any other. Kennedy's actions and proposals promise to beat that record.​

  • Both men held views far outside the scientific establishment and had long been proven wrong, yet both came to power through impressing authoritarian leaders with personal loyalty.
  • Both favor censorship of real science and the centralization of research. Lysenko had textbooks banned that taught genetics; Kennedy is proposing that only his state-run journals will be allowed to guide US health policy.
  • Both men promoted alternative “science” that was derived from ideology: Lysenko’s cultivation techniques were at odds with agiculturists, yet they iconified the “new Soviet man.” Kennedy paints doctors and scientists as “elites” and their rejection as a brave maverick act that can empower every average person.
  • Both men frame mainstream science as corrupt or ideologically compromised to justify their positions.
  • Both men have used the legal system to silence scientists and personal enemies. Lysenko personally orchestrated the arrests and executions of geneticists, with Stalin’s backing. Kennedy has done the following:
    • During his 2023 Presidential campaign, he said he would have Anthony Fauci prosecuted.
    • His Children’s Health Defense anti-vaccine organization has filed lawsuits against vaccine scientist Peter Hotez.
    • Once he became HHS Secretary, Kennedy had Fauci’s wife fired and assigned Fauci’s successor to an outpost in Alaska (the closest thing he could find to a Gulag).
Undoubtedly, Kennedy’s campaigns against Fauci, Hotez, and other health advocates reveal a systematic effort to replace evidence-based science with ideological narratives. These actions mirror Lysenko’s suppression of genetics in the USSR.

No good is going to come of this.
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No good indeed.
 
At Science-based Medicine Dr. David Gorski has written twice about the parallels between Lysenko and RFK Jr. In his first essay he wrote, "Indeed, there are echoes of Lysenko in the termination letters, which frequently say things like: the researcher’s project is “antithetical to scientific inquiry” and “harms the health of Americans.” Like Lysenko, RFK Jr. is claiming the mantle of science as he attacks, purges, and defunds actual science." In the second of his two essays he said,"Lysenkoism 2.0. It’s all there: ideology trumping science, scientists not buying into the new scientific dogma losing favor, being fired, or even otherwise punished, while scientists who do are rewarded, sometimes richly. I predict that MAHA will end up changing the way that research grants are disbursed to scientists to emphasize rigorous scientific review by expert study sections less and emphasize ideology, loyalty, patronage and cronyism. The Trumpian innovation to Lysenko’s legacy is the cronyism and, I expect in the future, grift."
 
Chris_Halkides said:
Dr. Keven A. Ault wrote, "The SARS-CoV-2 virus directly infects and damages the placenta, and this is likely responsible for these adverse fetal and newborn outcomes. The trend toward poor maternal and pregnancy outcomes accelerated in 2021 with the emergence of the Delta variant."
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Whilst I don't disagree with the argument for vaccinating women pre-conception or when pregnant, the case for SARS-CoV-2 directly infecting the placenta is less strong.

although there are currently no data to confirm this, it is highly probable that it reaches the placenta via the hematogenous route following an episode(s) of maternal viremia
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Similar to other respiratory viruses such as influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-1, adenoviruses, and respiratory syncytial virus, SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in the human bloodstream, which is a finding that has been termed both “viremia” and “RNAemia.
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This is very contentious many flu experts would argue that flu is not viraemic.
 
At Bulwark Jonathan Cohn wrote, "Ratner, who is the author of the book Booster Shots, said he could not fathom why Kennedy would be cutting off development of a treatment that might offer the surest, quickest way to prevent a potentially catastrophic spread of bird flu—let alone slow progress on a treatment that holds out the promise of fighting a lot more than infectious disease.⁵. “This decision,” Ratner said, “represents an unforced error of potentially epic proportions.”

Mr. Cohn also discussed the change in recommendation for pregnant women: "Kennedy’s announcement prompted a blistering statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, plus lots of questions about exactly who made the decision and why—especially because two top FDA officials had indicated in a much-ballyhooed article a week earlier that their agency still thought pregnancy was a valid reason for boosters."
 
MedPageToday reported, "FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, called the CDC's independent advisory body on immunizations a "kangaroo court" in an interview. (STAT)". Politico wrote, "Makary also cast doubt on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. “That panel has been a kangaroo court where they just rubber-stamp every single vaccine put in front of them,” he said."
 
At Science-based Medicine Jonathan Howard wrote, "Now, that he is in power and is expected to generate evidence for the American public, Dr. Prasad created yet another medical reversal. During a recent conversation with Dr. Makary about talc, which is grave danger to the American public according to our medical establishment, he decided that, except for vaccines, RCTs are no longer needed to guard against potential harms." Dr. Howard also discussed what he sees as Dr. Makary's and Dr. Bhattacharya's inconsistencies, regarding positions they took before versus after taking the reins at their respective organizations.
 
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