Originally published at: RFK Jr.’s Long History Of Embracing Junk Science And Spreading Dangerous Anti-Vax Disinfo
President-elect Donald Trump said this week he’s nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who was running for president himself not too long ago — to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services under his incoming administration. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged…
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During the outbreak 5,600 people reportedly contracted measles, and 83 children died.
“I had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa. I never told anybody not to vaccinate. I didn’t go there with any reason to do with that,” Kennedy later claimed.
So, RFK, Jr.'s also a weasel.
Not the kind of guy I’d expect to take a principled stand and defend Dr. Fauci when Donnie’s zealots call for his head or to make well considered decisions in a public health crisis.
Although, he does fit in with the rest of the team.
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So the next time an infectious outbreak occurs, we can probably expect the HHS Secretary to be hawking bleach injections and Ivermectin, and opposing Personal Protective gear and isolation.
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As Jonathan Swift once wrote, “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late …”. This is the pattern of deadly gossip and Kennedy, like many bullshit artists including Trump, take full advantage of it with the added twist of full deniability; his lawyer training apparently failed to teach respect for evidence but the lessons on technical definitions – what does “is” mean – and equivocation clearly stuck.
Kennedy has joined the crew best aligned with his character. No more excuses for him, not even brain worms, nor for any of his new pals if it comes to that.
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So, he lacks courage of his convictions. Tells the world vaccines are unsafe then denies his stance by saying “I never told anyone not to take vaccine.
What a moral coward.
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As with pregnancy complications, infectious diseases don’t care who you voted for & they’ll try to kill you just the same.
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Do any of these clowns know/understand that if they are a recess appointment they do not get paid and can only ‘serve’ for under two years?
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If you are qualified you may not be in the Trump government.
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So in essence they’re agreeing to an unpaid internship?
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Has RFK been accused of or found guilty of any crimes of a sexual nature? That might be one area where he is not as qualified, in Trump’s eyes, as some of the other cabinet nominations like Gaetz and Hegseth.
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bUt nPr sAid
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Patty Murray will ask him @ his confirmation hearing.
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Naturally, the answer is yes. He groped the family babysitter and kept potentially non-consensual nudes on his phone.
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TRUMP:
For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health
So I am going to nominate a complete asshole and hopefully things will get better.
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Dude, we’re in the middle of one right now. CDC and WHO have been on top of this for years. H5N1 is one of the reasons grocery prices increased. They’ve had to cull millions of egg-laying hens - tens of millions - because this flu rips through every population it hits. Dairy cows are getting it, and dairy farm workers, though it does not yet appear to make people ill. Not yet anyway. Because 2 years ago they found a pod of seal lions on the California coast wiped out from it - two or three hundred animals gone. Elk and deer in the wild. And birds. Jesus birds are getting decimated. If this this becomes transmissible among humans and makes us sick, god help us. We’re fucked, especially with this fat fuck leading us off the cliff.
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Working for the Orange Pustule and getting stiffed should surprise no one.
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Scientific American tries to counteract Trump in the lead story of today’s email newsletter.
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The Power of Vaccines
In a study published this year in the Lancet, researchers used statistical modeling to estimate the impact of vaccines against 14 common pathogens in the past 50 years. The scientists determined that vaccines saved 154 million lives since 1974—at a rate of six lives every minute. Of those saved lives, 95 percent of which were children under five years old. The same estimates showed that vaccines have cut infant mortality by 40 percent globally, and by more than 50 percent in Africa. The smallpox vaccine totally eradicated the illness in 1977. And other severe illnesses like polio, measles and rubella are eliminated in some countries, or at record lows globally.
In all of human history, vaccines have saved more lives than almost any other intervention.
First line of defense: Vaccines are usually the primary line of public health defense in communities with no health care. Poverty, malnutrition, underlying health conditions, overcrowding, human conflict, displacement, and lack of access to medical care, hygiene or sanitation—all of these are risk factors for infectious disease, says Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s immunization, vaccines and biologicals department. Vaccines reduce disease in these settings and free up health care resources for other public health projects. Vaccines also reduce disability and long-term morbidity, and prevent loss of labor and the death of caretakers.
What the experts say: “We say vaccines are one of humanity’s great achievements in terms of having furthered the lifespan and life quality for humanity in the past 50 years,” says Aurélia Nguyen, chief program officer at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Deaths averted since 1974:
Measles: 93,712,000
Tetanus: 27,955,000
Pertussis: 13,155,000
Tuberculosis: 10,902,000
Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB): 2,858,000
Poliomyelitis: 1,570,000
Jen Christiansen (styling); Source: “Contribution of Vaccination to Improved Survival and Health: Modelling 50 Years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization,” by Andrew J. Shattock et al., in Lancet, Vol. 403; May 25, 2024
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If you rape you have a place.
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Well, that’s the same, er, “logic” used by the eejits who voted for him. So at least it has the virtue of consistency.
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He’s probably jacked up on steroids and HGH. Probably no way to prove it though.
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