RFK Jr, HHs & MAHA | CDC RIF massacre

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uncgriff said:
A guy with no scientific credentials, a former heroin addict, who proudly acknowledges brain damage from a cerebral parasite, and has the backing of absolutely no one of any import in the medical field is in charge of dismantling the most important public health success story in history outside of indoor plumbing and water sanitation. Napoleon Bonaparte had a medal struck to commemorate the success of the small pox vaccine, George washington mandated small pox vaccination for the Continental army, polio has all but been eradicated and measles was as well until this anti vaccination lunacy took hold in this country.

It is so very disheartening
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People are literally going to die needlessly because of this. As I posted just recently, if you have scientific credentials or you're viewed as a expert in your field or you have credentials and experience then you're almost automatically viewed in this administration as suspect and not worthy of being hired. RFK, Jr. may be in one of the most sensitive positions due to his influence on our healthcare system, but this administration is shot through with people like him, who just thirty or forty years ago would have been considered fringe conspiracy quacks far, far out of the mainstream in nearly every way and mostly ignored (with good reason) except in places like the National Enquirer and fringe magazines or newsletters. We're living through the Revenge of the Fringe, and it's already gotten ugly and it's going to get much, much worse before it's over.
 
Wanted1000007033.jpg to add a pic of Napoleon's medal which is part of my collection. Shows the Greek god of medicine Esclepius with his staff and single serpent and the maiden representing France getting the gift of the vaccine. Note the cow in the back which is where the small pox vaccine was derived (cowpox).

Fun fact, the caduceus staff with 2 serpents is Mercury's symbol and has nothing to do with medicine. The army medical Corp appropriated it during world war 1 because they liked it better and it stuck ever since, but the correct symbol is the single serpent on the staff
 
Mulberry Heel said:
People are literally going to die needlessly because of this. As I posted just recently, if you have scientific credentials or you're viewed as a expert in your field or you have credentials and experience then you're almost automatically viewed in this administration as suspect and not worthy of being hired. RFK, Jr. may be in one of the most sensitive positions due to his influence on our healthcare system, but this administration is shot through with people like him, who just thirty or forty years ago would have been considered fringe conspiracy quacks far, far out of the mainstream in nearly every way and mostly ignored (with good reason) except in places like the National Enquirer and fringe magazines or newsletters. We're living through the Revenge of the Fringe, and it's already gotten ugly and it's going to get much, much worse before it's over.
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All true. But eventually the tide will turn. Unfortunately, that turn of the tide will occur after I'm dead. It's like I'm at the beach; I buried in sand up to my neck well below the high tide mark. I'm facing the ocean. I can see the tide coming in. And I'm just not strong enough to dig myself out of the hole that I am in before the incoming tide covers me.
 

New ACIP members announced. Some kooks, some qualified and some just kind of puzzling.

  • Dr. Robert Malone – a physician and vaccine critic who conducted early research on mRNA vaccine technology.
  • Dr. Joseph Hibbeln – a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was formerly the acting chief of the section of nutritional neurosciences in the Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics & Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health.
  • Dr. Martin Kulldorff – a biostatistician and epidemiologist, who was dismissed at Harvard Medical School last year after blasting the university for how it handled the Covid-19 pandemic. He has served on the Food and Drug Administration’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and the CDC’s vaccine safety subgroup of ACIP.
  • Retsef Levi – a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management who has also served as faculty director of the school’s food supply chain analytics and sensing initiative.
  • Dr. Cody Meissner – a professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He has held advisory roles with both the CDC and FDA, and has been a voting member of ACIP and the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee.
  • Dr. James Pagano – a board-certified emergency medicine physician who has served on multiple hospital committees.
  • Dr. Michael Ross – a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at George Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has served on the CDC’s Advisory Committee for the Prevention of Breast and Cervical Cancer.
  • Vicky Pebsworth – a nurse with a PhD in public health, who has previously served on FDA vaccine advisory committees.
 
nrsair said:

New ACIP members announced. Some kooks, some qualified and some just kind of puzzling.

  • Dr. Robert Malone – a physician and vaccine critic who conducted early research on mRNA vaccine technology.
  • Dr. Joseph Hibbeln – a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was formerly the acting chief of the section of nutritional neurosciences in the Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics & Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health.
  • Dr. Martin Kulldorff – a biostatistician and epidemiologist, who was dismissed at Harvard Medical School last year after blasting the university for how it handled the Covid-19 pandemic. He has served on the Food and Drug Administration’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and the CDC’s vaccine safety subgroup of ACIP.
  • Retsef Levi – a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management who has also served as faculty director of the school’s food supply chain analytics and sensing initiative.
  • Dr. Cody Meissner – a professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He has held advisory roles with both the CDC and FDA, and has been a voting member of ACIP and the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee.
  • Dr. James Pagano – a board-certified emergency medicine physician who has served on multiple hospital committees.
  • Dr. Michael Ross – a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at George Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has served on the CDC’s Advisory Committee for the Prevention of Breast and Cervical Cancer.
  • Vicky Pebsworth – a nurse with a PhD in public health, who has previously served on FDA vaccine advisory committees.
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So not 100% cranks? That's good
 
EyeballKid said:
Malone and Kulldorff were 2 of the leading anti-vax cranks during Covid. They were constantly cited by right-wingers and spread tons of misinformation.

Not sure about the others.
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Meissner is solid, but he may be the only one after a little more looking into it. Pebsworth is apparently part of an organization that has made some misleading anti-vax claims. Levi doesn’t have a medical background and is just a COVID/vaccine contrarian.

Unsure why Pagano was chosen, he seems like a regular doctor and doesn’t really have a web presence. Appears Michael Ross has had some experience in the corporate world as well as practicing, again not much of a web footprint to reveal his stance on vaccines.
 
WSJ Editorial Board:


Meet RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Advisers​

With one exception, his committee members seem to know little about vaccines.​


🎁—> https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-...0?st=sfWcBU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… Two of his new members have served as “expert” witnesses paid by plaintiff attorneys in lawsuits against vaccine makers. Conflicts, anyone? Biostatistician Martin Kulldorff backed claims against Merck over its HPV vaccine. Mr. Kennedy held a financial stake in one of the cases, which after he became secretary he bestowed to his son, who works at the law firm suing Merck, Wisner Baum.

Another appointee is biochemist Robert Malone, a loud critic of the Covid mRNA vaccines. He also served as a paid expert in litigation against Merck’s mumps vaccine, which was rejected by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Dr. Malone has downplayed the Texas measles outbreak and said two deaths of unvaccinated children owed to medical errors.

ACIP members have typically been trained doctors, but Mr. Kennedy is breaking from this tradition.

One appointee, Retsef Levi, is an MIT business school professor of operations management. What does he know about vaccines? Not much as far as we can tell, but he has been a strident critic of Covid vaccines.

… Mr. Kennedy has also tapped Vicky Pebsworth, a registered nurse and board member of the nonprofit National Vaccine Information Center. The outfit downplays the benefits of vaccines and hypes potential side effects. She says her son experienced “serious, long-term health problems following receipt of seven vaccines administered during his 15-month well-baby visit.”

The secretary appears to have picked some vaccine advisers out of a Make America Healthy Again hat. Take Joseph Hibbeln, a nutritional neuroscientist whose research focus is omega-3 fatty acids.

Another is emergency medicine physician James Pagano, who has written two novels and denounced a study finding that ivermectin was an ineffective Covid treatment.

Mr. Kennedy’s only pick with any substantive vaccine expertise appears to be pediatrician Cody Meissner, who previously served on government vaccine advisory panels and has espoused the benefits of vaccines, including in a 2022 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. Consider him the committee’s contrarian…”
 
healthpolicy-watch.news

COVID Critics Dominate New US Vaccine Advisory Committee - Health Policy Watch

Three days after removing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory group, United States Health Secretary
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“… [Dr. Robert] Malone has promoted several false and alarmist claims about COVID-19 vaccines, said they did not work and promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as SARS-CO-V2 treatments despite numerous studies showing they did not work.

Part of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, Malone was banned from Twitter during the pandemic for violating the platform’s misinformation policies and The New York Times has described him as a “COVID vaccine misinformation star”.

Recently, Malone controversially claimed that an eight-year-old child, Daisy Hildebrand, who died of measles in Texas had died of sepsis not measles, and blamed a medical institution for mismanaging her illness. Malone made these claims on social media before the child’s death had been made public. …”
 
nycfan said:
healthpolicy-watch.news

COVID Critics Dominate New US Vaccine Advisory Committee - Health Policy Watch

Three days after removing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory group, United States Health Secretary
healthpolicy-watch.news healthpolicy-watch.news

“… [Dr. Robert] Malone has promoted several false and alarmist claims about COVID-19 vaccines, said they did not work and promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as SARS-CO-V2 treatments despite numerous studies showing they did not work.

Part of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, Malone was banned from Twitter during the pandemic for violating the platform’s misinformation policies and The New York Times has described him as a “COVID vaccine misinformation star”.

Recently, Malone controversially claimed that an eight-year-old child, Daisy Hildebrand, who died of measles in Texas had died of sepsis not measles, and blamed a medical institution for mismanaging her illness. Malone made these claims on social media before the child’s death had been made public. …”
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“… Pebsworth, Pacific regional director for the National Association of Catholic Nurses, is a director and board member at the National Vaccine Information Center. The centre is known for questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and encouraging people to seek alternatives to vaccines.

Some 40% of the centre’s funding is from Dr Joseph Mercola, who sells alternative health products and was named the biggest source of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook and Twitter by the Center Countering Digital Hate….”
 
nycfan said:
“… Pebsworth, Pacific regional director for the National Association of Catholic Nurses, is a director and board member at the National Vaccine Information Center. The centre is known for questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and encouraging people to seek alternatives to vaccines.

Some 40% of the centre’s funding is from Dr Joseph Mercola, who sells alternative health products and was named the biggest source of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook and Twitter by the Center Countering Digital Hate….”
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“… A biostatistician and epidemiologist, Kulldorff was co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration with Dr Jay Battacharya, new director of the National Institutes of Health, which favoured herd immunity to address COVID-19 for all but the most vulnerable.

Meissner, Professor of Paediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, was part the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine advisory panel that recommended the use of COVID vaccines. However, he has spoken out against children wearing masks and is in favour of children and pregnant children being excluded from the COVID-19 vaccine schedule.

Levi, Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines…”
 
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