The Truth about RFK Jr

At Inside Medicine Dr. Jeremy Faust wrote, "As an important MedPage Today story by Rachael Robertson reports, the agency has convened a handful of “expert panels” on high-profile topics as of late, including antidepressants in pregnancy. These panels function differently from advisory committees, groups whose activities are governed by official policies designed to ensure quality, transparency, and public participation. The problem is that, unlike advisory committees whose work must follow certain rules (such as providing adequate advance notice), these panels seem to be hastily thrown together PR events. That said, their influence on any genuine regulatory activity, if any, remains opaque."

At MedPageToday Rachel Robertson wrote, "There have been about four panels so far: one on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitorsopens in a new tab or window (SSRIs) and pregnancy; another on hormone therapyopens in a new tab or window for menopause; one on infant formulaopens in a new tab or window; and another on talcopens in a new tab or window in food, drugs, and cosmetics..."It felt like they only wanted invited guests there in the same way that the panel was all invited to have a particular point of view," [Diana] Zuckerman [PhD] said. "When you have a meeting where everybody's selected to have a consistent point of view with each other and presumably with the commissioner, and nobody from the public is allowed to say a word, and most people from the public aren't even allowed to be in the room, that's ... not the transparency that this FDA promised.""
 
At this point, I'm tempted to say we should should wall off the USA, figuratively or literally. Containment. Quarantene. Call it whatever you want. No flights or ships in or out. Borders closed. Let the virus of fascism burn itself out, then we can expose the rest of the world to the USA again.

shemp said:
He's another one who I hope to outlive so I can dance and piss on his grave.
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I think I'm going to celebrate when one day he inevitably passes, too. Just like with the chubby little bastard.
 
At SBM Dr. Jonathan Howard discussed the pushback from multiple directions that Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad have recently been receiving. "“We will not stand by while a single federal official unilaterally and effectively strips Americans of their choice to vaccinate with actions that thoroughly disregard overwhelming scientific evidence and decades of established federal processes,” said Dr. Tina Tan, the president of the Infectious Disease Society of America."

Also at SBM Dr. David Gorski wrote, "That’s because, as we’ve long documented here, Dr. Prasad is nothing if not a naked opportunist, which is why he eagerly hitched his wagon to the MAHA movement and the far right wing politics that have aligned itself with MAHA, a decision that paid off enormously for him, elevating him to positions far beyond his talent and capabilities."
 
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At Respectful Insolence Orac examined recent comments from Dr. Oz. "See what I mean? The “cooperation” that RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz are demanding from industry is cooperation at the point of a gun, or in this case at the point of a regulatory pen: Do what we want, or we’re going to make you do it by changing the regulations and using them to come after you. Seriously, it amuses me to no end how Republicans claim to be against unnecessary regulation when here we have two high-ranking HHS officials threatening industry with regulation if it doesn’t toe the line and obey“cooperate.”"

Orac went on to say, "Rather, he [Dr. Oz] paints health as virtue and lack of health as being due to lack of virtue; in the case of children, this lack of virtue is in the parents, who according to him don’t teach their children “resilience” or make them go out and play. Also note how, once again, Dr. Oz harps on the obesity epidemic as being a problem for the military because so many young people can’t meet the physical requirements to serve in the military as being among the most important reasons that obesity is a problem, rather than, you know, because obesity predisposes young people to long term health problems and early mortality."
 
lionking said:
I have grown to hate RFK Jnr. more even than Trump. Trump is a true idiot and will cause countless deaths in the US. But he is prone to chickening out and changing like the weather. RFK Jr. is far more single minded and deliberate in his evil actions.
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RFK Jr. is not mentally deficient (or even vacant) like Trump. He is clearly mentally unstable like Theodor Morell or Josef Mengele. The sort of people who need to be restrained for their own good, not just the nation's.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
At this point, I'm tempted to say we should should wall off the USA, figuratively or literally. Containment. Quarantene. Call it whatever you want. No flights or ships in or out. Borders closed. Let the virus of fascism burn itself out, then we can expose the rest of the world to the USA again.


I think I'm going to celebrate when one day he inevitably passes, too. Just like with the chubby little bastard.
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Well I never took you for someone who would promote Trump policies.

Build the wall!
 
The problem - one of the problems, for there are many - is that as someone who is in charge of the science of health care, he thinks and acts like a lawyer. Lawyers can't do science. It's not in their training.
 
arthwollipot said:
The problem - one of the problems, for there are many - is that as someone who is in charge of the science of health care, he thinks and acts like a lawyer. Lawyers can't do science. It's not in their training.
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I'm not seeing the least bit of lawyerly behaviour from him either, to be frank. Quite the opposite, actually. Much of what RFK Jr. advocates and sets in motion has no basis in logic, law or objective fact. It is all "feels" in favour of his own nutcase ideas. For Aten's sake, he collects fresh parts of recently dead animals as playthings!
 
Norman Alexander said:
I'm not seeing the least bit of lawyerly behaviour from him either, to be frank. Quite the opposite, actually. Much of what RFK Jr. advocates and sets in motion has no basis in logic, law or objective fact. It is all "feels" in favour of his own nutcase ideas. For Aten's sake, he collects fresh parts of recently dead animals as playthings!
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It’s quite beyond law in my view. He really believes that disease can be prevented and health assured simply by eating the “right” food and exposing children to the elements and infections to “strengthen” their natural immunity. He’s a throwback to the 1930s.
 
Norman Alexander said:
I'm not seeing the least bit of lawyerly behaviour from him either, to be frank. Quite the opposite, actually. Much of what RFK Jr. advocates and sets in motion has no basis in logic, law or objective fact. It is all "feels" in favour of his own nutcase ideas. For Aten's sake, he collects fresh parts of recently dead animals as playthings!
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I'd say check out the episode of The Know Rogan Experience where Marsh and Cecil explicitly outline his lawyerlike thinking on science.
 
At SBM in 2024 Jonathan Howard reflected on a 2020 essay by Drs. John Mandrola and Andrew Foy suggesting that young adults should not live in fear of coronavirus. He wrote, "Michael, who died of COVID-myocarditis, “had no preexisting conditions and had never been in the hospital prior to COVID-19.” Countless other young people survived COVID, but were gravely injured by it. Claire “Clurby” Bridges, a 21-year-old aspiring model, lost both of her legs to COVID. Al Brown,a healthy 31-year-old man needed a heart transplant. Jose Luis Chavez, a 17-year-old, needed a double lung transplant. Lucas Denault, a high-school senior, had his life turned upside down by Long COVID." More generally, "The Delta and Omicron variants arrived within a year, and COVID became a leading cause of death for young people. In fact, COVID was the number 1 or 2 killer of young adults age 35-44 for six months in a row, from August 2021 to January 2022. It was the number 2 killer of adults age 25-34 for 5 out of 6 months during that time, and a top 10 killer for people younger than this." I do not think that it is controversial to argue that one must balance the risks of the vaccines against the harms of the disease itself.

At SBM David Weinberg wrote, "HHS has issued a series policy explanations justified with problematic sources, including citation of non-existent references. Even when references are correctly cited, the contents have repeatedly been misrepresented. There has been a consistent lack of balance. For instance high-quality studies most accurately representing vaccine safety and efficacy have been disregarded, while low quality studies exaggerating risks have been highlighted." The libertarian CATO institute was harshly critical of the MAHA Report issued on 22 May 2025.
 
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At Unbiased Science Jess Steier and coauthors wrote, "Surviving measles (again, even mild cases) wipes out a portion of your immune memory and weakens your body's defenses, leaving you vulnerable to infections you were previously protected against through years of exposure or immunization...The most eye-opening aspect of this is that it happens even with mild measles cases. While your child is recovering from the rash and fever, their immune system is quietly being dismantled by the measles virus. The measles virus targets and destroys the very cells that contain your immunological memories. Your memory B cells and T cells that remember past infections...Research suggests that people who had the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) or tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (TDaP) vaccines may have memory T cells that, when reactivated, help fight novel pathogens never seen before, like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19."
 
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