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Dr. Oz: Anothr exmaple of why Trump obssesion with putting TV personalties in high level positions is proving a disaster.
Nit pick. It's not really an obsession. That would mean he felt compelled to do it. He does it because he doesn't think much deeper than what he saw on his favourite TV channel.Dr. Oz: Anothr exmaple of why Trump obssesion with putting TV personalties in high level positions is proving a disaster.
Neil Stone on X, Aug 15, 2025
Health Secretary of the United States claiming that the polio vaccine killed more people than it saved.
You'll be pleased to know that this is not true
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Thomas on X, Aug 15, 2025
Post the actual video of him saying that. This just looks like propaganda.
Neil Stone on X, Aug 15, 2025
OK
With the 50-sec video.Red Pill Dispenser on X, Aug 15, 2025
RFK: "The polio vaccine contained a virus called SV40... one of the most carcinogenic materials that is known to man."
"98 million people... in my generation got it."
"And now you've had this explosion of soft tissue cancers in our generation that kill many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did."
How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week (MSNBC, Aug 15, 2025)
On Aug. 12, Bhattacharya published an op-ed in The Washington Post, a seeming attempt to offer the mainstream justification Kennedy hadn’t delivered. “The platform has failed a crucial test,” he wrote, not because mRNA vaccines were dangerous or didn’t work, but because the public didn’t trust them.
It was the third explanation in a week. Kennedy had said the vaccines were ineffective. Hatfill said they were deadly. Now, Bhattacharya was saying they were politically unviable.
Brandy Zadrozny on X, Aug 15, 2025
I spent the week tracing how @SecKennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and reporting on a(nother) very chaotic week inside HHS.
Let me introduce you to the fringe doctors, anti-vaccine activists, and MAHA operatives behind the mRNA “debacle.”
If this dumb mother ◊◊◊◊◊◊ gets his way he's gonna kill many, many. many, many, many. many, many, many, many, many, many, etc.There's an awful lot of overlap with the Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories subforum, isn't there?
With the 50-sec video.
"Many, many, many, many, many more," that's very many isn't it?!
The MAHA part of the episode begins at 9:05-->DC Takeover & MAHA (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube, Aug 18, 2025 - 44:13 min.)
John Oliver discusses why Donald Trump seized control of the police in Washington, D.C., where the “Make America Healthy Again” movement in the U.S. could be headed, and whether or not you can buy testicles on Amazon. Three issues of equal importance.
This version is also safer for work since it doesn't end with a song based on John Kennedy talking about how much he'd love to have your **** in his mouth.Make America Healthy Again (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube, Aug 18, 2025 - 33:12 min.)
John Oliver discusses the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, what they have and haven’t accomplished so far, and whether or not water could’ve done anything to stop Hitler. Ya, you read that right. Water was a bystander. And it can read. You’ll see.
I started watching and nearly threw my breakfast at RFK Jr as soon as I saw his mug trying sell me a MAHA hat. Then, I saw stupid Linda McMahon, followed up by that idiot Food Babe, Vani Hari, and for the sake of my TV (it has a brand new panel under warranty!) I had to stop watching. These dangerous mis/disinformationists infuriate me, and now that they're mainstreamed, I fear for the future, lest the U.S. turn into a scientific, intellectual backwater.The last couple of minutes probably not safe for work:
The MAHA part of the episode begins at 9:05-->
It's mainly about what MAHA has been doing about food and not so much about vaccines.
If you can't access it in your area, try this one:
This version is also safer for work since it doesn't end with a song based on John Kennedy talking about how much he'd love to have your **** in his mouth.
Stupid now rules the U.S. medical establishment, so stupid has already won!I started watching and nearly threw my breakfast at RFK Jr as soon as I saw his mug trying sell me a MAHA hat. Then, I saw stupid Linda McMahon, followed up by that idiot Food Babe, Vani Hari, and for the sake of my TV (it has a brand new panel under warranty!) I had to stop watching. These dangerous mis/disinformationists infuriate me, and now that they're mainstreamed, I fear for the future, lest the U.S. turn into a scientific, intellectual backwater.
We can all eat healthier for sure, but based on good nutrition information, not the babblings of the aforementioned morons. Stupid is winning.
At least some of Kennedy’s allies seem to have been influenced not just by Denmark’s more limited vaccine schedule but specifically by the work of Christine Stabell Benn, a researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, who has dedicated much of her career to studying vaccine side effects
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Several of the researchers I spoke with described Benn, with varying degrees of politeness, as a contrarian who has cherry-picked evidence, relied on shaky data, and conducted biased studies. Her research scrutinizing vaccine side effects—arguing, for instance, that vaccines not made from live microbes can come with substantial detriments—has been contradicted by other studies, spanning years of research and scientific consensus.
Dr. Jessica Steier wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times, in which she discussed David Geier's and Mark Geier's papers attempting to show a link between autism and vaccines. She wrote, "To show how Mr. Geier makes his research look credible, we’re highlighting tactics he has employed on multiple occasions, using a 2017 paper on thimerosal as our example. We picked it because it uses one of the databases that experts suspect will be relied on in the government report, the Vaccine Safety Datalink, to which Mr. Geier has been previously barred from having access."
https://t.co/pdtY1FukYmDefying RFK Jr., pediatric group urges covid shots for young kids (WaPo, Aug 19, 2025)
The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday urged parents to get their youngest children vaccinated for covid, part of a broader effort by medical organizations to bypass Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his criticism of broadly administering coronavirus vaccines.
The AAP is recommending that all children ages 6 months through 23 months receive a coronavirus vaccine to help protect against serious illness. Children in that age group are especially vulnerable to becoming hospitalized for covid, the AAP said in its vaccine guidance for parents and pediatricians ahead of the fall-winter respiratory season.
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Making the results fit the desired fable.There was a paper by a Geier acolyte a few years back (cropped up in a discussion on the old Bad Science forum, so I can't remember the details), in which said acolyte used a "tool" for assessing autistic symptoms which I, as a former CAMHS worker who did that for a living, did not recognise.
It took me quite a while to track it down: it was rarely used, as it was discredited for producing false positives (i.e. showing autistic symptoms where it was more likely that none were present) and for failing to distinguish between autistic features and features of learning difficulties (i.e. mistaking non-autistic LD features for autistic symptoms). Upshot was a wild over-estimating of autistic features present in the "study" population and thus a huuuuuuge over-estimate of the effects of the "causative" agent.
This is a feature, not a bug, of the Geiers and their acolytes. Just thoroughly dishonest, the lot of them.