The Truth about RFK Jr

Skeptic Ginger said:
And of course this RFK nonsense serves to reenforce all the crap in his mind that he's right and Big Pharma is part of the evil Deep State. What I've told people in my classes is to look at other countries' vaccine guidelines.
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Of course what they're all busily ignoring is that big parma is what's selling them their beloved alternatve "medicines". The major pharmaceuticals have been heavily investing in stuff like homeopathy for the last two decades. Why not, there's much lighter regulation, little by way of patents and absolutely no need to hire properly qualified staff.
 
At Unbiased Science Dr. Jess Steier gave an account of how she conversed with several people about the mRNA vaccines. She wrote in part, "The speed came from removing financial barriers and bureaucratic delays, not from cutting corners on safety testing. I explained how all the research on mRNA set the stage, and we got very lucky that the vaccines were effective against SARS-CoV-2. This was news to them."
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Here is another passage from the same essay: "My brilliant colleague, Dr. Aimee Bernard, has a great analogy for this: every car mechanic across the U.S. doesn't have the same messaging for why you need your engine fixed or your brakes replaced. Each one explains it differently based on their knowledge, their customer, and the specific situation. Now imagine if all those mechanics had to agree on one message, deliver it simultaneously, while the cars were actively catching fire, and half the owners insisted cars don't actually need brakes. That was COVID messaging." The entire article is worth reading.
 
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At Inside Medicine Jeremy Faust reported that Secretary Kennedy wishes to install seven new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, "If HHS Secretary Kennedy is successful in installing these new members, it will be the second time during his brief tenure that he has placed allies to this committee in a matter of just days or weeks. ACIP is scheduled to meet September 18-19. Usually, the vetting process for new voting members takes months to years."

One of the seven new members, Joseph Fraiman, coauthored a 2022 article on mRNA covid vaccines. A subsequent comment on this article stated in part, "In short, it is unfortunate that this manuscript did not receive appropriate methodologic and statistical review that would have likely prevented its publication in its current form." Jake Zuckerman profiled another of the seven members, Catherine Stein: "COVID-19, she wrote in January 2021, is “not the scary killer the media and government portray it to be.”...She claims that the Ohio Department of Health pads its case counts; the Ohio Hospital Association inflates hospitalization numbers it provides to ODH; health officials fear monger via flawed projection models; the death count only looks bad because of the rate of people dying of COVID-19 who have preexisting medical conditions; and other assertions downplaying COVID-19."
 
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Chris_Halkides said:
At Inside Medicine Jeremy Faust reported that Secretary Kennedy wishes to install seven new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, "If HHS Secretary Kennedy is successful in installing these new members, it will be the second time during his brief tenure that he has placed allies to this committee in a matter of just days or weeks. ACIP is scheduled to meet September 18-19. Usually, the vetting process for new voting members takes months to years."

One of the seven members Joseph Fraiman coauthored a 2022 article on mRNA covid vaccines. A subsequent comment on this article stated in part, "In short, it is unfortunate that this manuscript did not receive appropriate methodologic and statistical review that would have likely prevented its publication in its current form."
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A polite way of saying "This is complete and utter bull-◊◊◊◊. Discard."
 
Politico reported, "Pediatric cardiologist Kirk Milhoan, who is a senior fellow at the anti-mRNA Independent Medical Alliance, is also listed as a prospective ACIP member. Milhoan has claimed the Covid shots pose more harm than benefit and participated in a 2024 panel discussion on vaccine injuries convened by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a vocal Covid vaccine skeptic."

At Rep. Greene's site is this:
Join Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and special guests Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Ryan Cole, and Dr. Kirk Milhoan for a Hearing on Injuries Caused By COVID-19 Vaccines: Part II on Friday, January 12th at 12 PM ET.
 
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At SBM in 2023 Dr. David Gorski wrote about the study having Joseph Fraiman as the lead author: "I’ll refer you to my original long discussion of what was wrong with the paper and how Fraiman, Doshi, et al had used “SAEs of special interest” to compare apples to oranges and falsely conclude that the risk of hospitalization from the vaccine was higher than it was from COVID-19. I’ll also refer you to Dr. Susan Oliver’s discussion of the study and its data dredging when it was still a preprint last summer...you can explore the previous links if you want the details, but the TL;DR version is simple. The study was deeply misleading based on its data dredging combined with misleading comparisons that included counting multiple adverse events in the same patient multiple times, further combined with a low enough risk of COVID-19 in the two populations at the time of the randomized controlled trials to allow for a low rate of hospitalization when normalized to the entire population in the control group. At the time, I also characterized it as nothing less than antivax misinformation disguised as a “reanalysis” of the original Pfizer and Moderna trials that didn’t even show what it claimed to have shown..."
 
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My wife has said for some time that she doesn’t want to visit the US. I now agree with her. If tourism to the US hasn’t badly collapsed, it soon will.
 
I'd like to go back to the US some day. I've been to LA and Las Vegas on one trip, and Orlando and the Bahamas on the other - some wag once said that I'd been to America's armpits. I'd like to do a trip across the top - Boston to Seattle. I have a bunch of friends in Chicago.

But no way am I setting foot in the place until it gets its ◊◊◊◊ together.
 
arthwollipot said:
I'd like to go back to the US some day. I've been to LA and Las Vegas on one trip, and Orlando and the Bahamas on the other - some wag once said that I'd been to America's armpits. I'd like to do a trip across the top - Boston to Seattle. I have a bunch of friends in Chicago.

But no way am I setting foot in the place until it gets its ◊◊◊◊ together.
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Have you considered visiting Canada instead? It doesn't have the vast visitable areas the US does, but each region has its own collection of interesting things. Heck, even in Winnipeg there are a couple of things of interest!
 
Blue Mountain said:
Have you considered visiting Canada instead? It doesn't have the vast visitable areas the US does, but each region has its own collection of interesting things. Heck, even in Winnipeg there are a couple of things of interest!
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One primary reason for the trip as described is that I have friends in the area. I don't know many people in Canada.
 
We have family in Oregon. They are all staunchly anti-Trump, and devastated about the current state of the U.S.
They (and we) are old and frail enough to die before America gets its act together.
 
Andy_Ross said:
This is actually real!


Kennedy: This is a photograph of the alien from the movie "Alien." This is what you could end up looking like if you eat some of the raw frozen shrimp being sent to the United States by other countries. How could you end up looking like the alien in the "Alien"? Because the shrimp was radioactive.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1963372443537428987
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I have to say, I'm having great difficulty telling myself that's not a parody. It's like some character Steve Coogan invented.

I was curious enough to Google, and CNBC provides some perspective: "The level of Cesium-137 detected in the frozen shrimp was about 68 becquerels per kilogram, a measure of radioactivity. That is far below the FDA’s level of 1,200 becquerels per kilogram that could trigger the need for health protections." But Sen. Kennedy, whose confidence in the science bounds ahead of his ability to pronounce "caesium", tells us that if it doesn't kill ya it'll turn you into the Alien. From Alien. Or at the very least he guarantees you'll grow another ear. Jaw dropping.

There's also the fact that the matter did actually come to light. Customs detected traces of radioactivity in containers and told the FDA which found caesium in one sample. It hasn't been found in any shrimp which actually got to the supermarkets. https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-adv...ertain-imported-frozen-shrimp-indonesian-firm
 
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