The Truth about RFK Jr

A vaccine became available in 1963. In the decade before, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years old. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year. Among reported measles cases each year, an estimated:
  • 400 to 500 people died
  • 48,000 were hospitalized
  • 1,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain)
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History of Measles

Learn the history of measles, from the pre-vaccine era to measles elimination.
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So mortality was 1:10,000 so it is unlikely any individual would know someone who died of measles, 1% were hospitalised still so low that it easy to understand why children who got measles in the 60s think no one became ill with measles.

 
Planigale said:
Budesonide is a potent immunosuppressant, Not the best drug to be given to someone with an infection, and is known to increase risk of pneumonia, a known complication following measles. Clarithromycin inhibits the metabolism of budesonide resulting in increased systemic effects. Clarythromycin affects the heart rhythm (prolonging QT interval) with a potential risk of cardiac dysrhythmia including death. The reason for doing drug trials is to show the benefits outweigh the risks. It is odd that RFK is promoting a treatment that hasn't been studied let alone not subject to a placebo controlled trial which is something he says is essential for vaccines.
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Ok. I'm busted.
 
Just to add to Planigale's mention of racism in comments on a certain site, Gorski had a long look at the eugenicist element of the likes of RFK Jr's actions:

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Measles, MAHA, and “soft eugenics”

I've long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Now that a second child has died of measles, it's time for me to take a look at the "soft eu
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Planigale said:
So mortality was 1:10,000 so it is unlikely any individual would know someone who died of measles
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It's why so many of the Alt-Med crowd love using death as an endpoint, it's both rare and we were getting better at staving off the opportunistic stuff before the vaccines appeared. That's why I like this visualisation, showing reported cases before & after the vaccine was introduced
 
Mongrel said:
It's why so many of the Alt-Med crowd love using death as an endpoint, it's both rare and we were getting better at staving off the opportunistic stuff before the vaccines appeared. That's why I like this visualisation, showing reported cases before & after the vaccine was introduced
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Also related: A point raised by Hank Green on Bluesky about why things that save our lives in the background don't get our attention.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Sinks!
theonion.com

RFK Jr. Orders Removal Of Sinks From HHS Bathrooms

WASHINGTON—As part of a sweeping overhaul of the building’s plumbing system, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly ordered the removal of sinks Tuesday from all bathrooms in the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters. “People across the world lived for thousands of years without sinks...
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Chris_Halkides said:
CBSNews reported, "Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Monday for the end of community water fluoridation, praising Utah's move to ban the addition of fluoride to the water supply.
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If anything this is a testament to the deplorable state of Utah politics. The Utah legislature is almost completely divorced from any semblance of public accountability. It is heavily gerrymandered with a supermajority of Republicans and an even larger supermajority (>90%) of Mormons (compared to only 42% of the population). Only 20% of Utahns polled supported the fluoride ban, but the legislature passed it anyway. And our simpering governor signed it.
 
JayUtah said:
If anything this is a testament to the deplorable state of Utah politics. The Utah legislature is almost completely divorced from any semblance of public accountability. It is heavily gerrymandered with a supermajority of Republicans and an even larger supermajority (>90%) of Mormons (compared to only 42% of the population). Only 20% of Utahns polled supported the fluoride ban, but the legislature passed it anyway. And our simpering governor signed it.
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Well, it sort of makes economic sense. If you're going to kill off the people with childhood diseases and pandemics and quack nostrums, good teeth are a waste of money.
 
At In the Pipeline Dr. Derek Lowe wrote, "A second way that things are being undermined is at the regulatory and decision-making level. That's well-illustrated in this piece at BioCentury. Steve Usdin is looking at Mike Makary's FDA and an upcoming decision that will reveal a lot about how things are going to be run. Readers may have noticed that the current version of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine has had a sudden regulatory hold put on it at the FDA...Makary has put his new assistant Tracy Beth Høeg in charge of reviewing the application, and this is not a good sign at all. Høeg has been a "health freedom" advocate who has called for restrictions on some childhood vaccines in her previous work with Florida's previous surgeon general (who himself is no prize, in my view). She is a political appointee all the way - and as Usdin makes clear, political appointees are not supposed to have anything to do with final decisions about drug and vaccine approvals, and letting one step into the process in this way is a very bad precedent."
 
Chris_Halkides said:
CBSNews reported, "Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Monday for the end of community water fluoridation, praising Utah's move to ban the addition of fluoride to the water supply....It comes as the Environmental Protection Agency says it has now launched a new review of fluoride's health effects, working with Kennedy's department as it weighs whether to tighten federal restrictions on its addition to drinking water." The New York Times reported, "The current standard “was most recently reviewed July of 2024, but a lot has happened since July of 2024,” Mr. Zeldin said. The review of safety data “wouldn’t be happening, if not for Secretary Kennedy,” he added."

At SBM Steven Novella wrote, "In the US the EPA has set a maximum fluoride level in public drinking water (regardless of source) at 4.0 mg/L. The CDC recommends an optimal level of 0.7 mg/L for oral health (again, less than the concentration in the ocean and many natural water supplies). As we all know, toxicity is all about dose. So are there health risk at fluoridated levels? No."
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"A lot has happened" in 8 months that would require a reevalulation of safety data?
 
Derek Lowe wrote, "This [abruptly firing 77 staff members and curtailing the study of gonorrhea and other STDs] is prima facie a bad idea, because as that article points out the number of such disease reports has been relentlessly rising. Gonorrhea is not just a little infection that goes away on its own - it can and does cause severe problems, and over the years the bacteria that cause it have been becoming more and more drug-resistant...But they've been fired. And no one knows what'll happen to all the samples, either."
 
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