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RFK Jr, HHS & MAHA | Surgeon General hearing
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“… When Kirk was killed, conservatives believed that his death would galvanize his cause. “Millions of Charlie Kirks were created today,” declared Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
But as it turned out, Kirk’s assassin didn’t kill just one man; he destabilized the entire Trump coalition by removing a pivotal person who had been holding it together. In doing so, the killer helped unshackle dark forces—chief among them anti-Semitism—that now threaten to overtake the conservative movement.…”
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This article basically organizes a lot of the infighting chronicled in this thread into a good summary of where things stand in post-Kirk MAGAdom and (at a high level) how they got here.
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Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds
In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.
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So fraud, not vaccines, are to blame for autism increases now?
Throw more shit on the wall and see if it sticks.
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Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia
The claim vastly overstates preliminary research into whether the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet might help people with the disorder, experts said.
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Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia
The claim vastly overstates preliminary research into whether the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet might help people with the disorder, experts said.
Kennedy is such a dumb ass. There are many examples of people recovering from severe issues such as autoimmune disorders by changing their diet. That is a fact. But “cure” is not correct. Just shows how incompetent he is at messagingKennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia
The claim vastly overstates preliminary research into whether the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet might help people with the disorder, experts said.www.nytimes.com
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Measles Outbreak in South Carolina Linked to Brain Swelling in Kids
Several children have come down with serious complications like encephalitis and pneumonia, state health officials reported this week.
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Newly obtained emails undermine RFK Jr.’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip before measles outbreak
Over two days of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the same answer.
Newly obtained emails undermine RFK Jr.’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip before measles outbreak
Over two days of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the same answer.He said the closely scrutinized 2019 trip he took to Samoa, which came before a devastating measles outbreak, had “nothing to do with vaccines.”
Documents obtained by The Guardian and The Associated Press undermine that testimony. Emails sent by staffers at the U.S. Embassy and the United Nations provide, for the first time, an inside look at how Kennedy’s trip came about and include contemporaneous accounts suggesting his concerns about vaccine safety motivated the visit.
The documents have prompted concerns from at least one U.S. senator that the lawyer and activist now leading America’s health policy lied to Congress over the visit. Samoan officials later said Kennedy’s trip bolstered the credibility of anti-vaccine activists ahead of the measles outbreak, which sickened thousands of people and killed 83, mostly children under age 5.
The revelations, which come as measles outbreaks erupt across the U.S., build on previous criticism that Kennedy’s anti-vaccine record makes him unfit to serve as health secretary, a role in which he has worked to radically reshape immunization policy and public perceptions of vaccines.
The newly disclosed documents also reveal previously unknown details of the trip, including that a U.S. Embassy employee helped Kennedy’s team connect with Samoan officials. Kennedy, then running his anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense, did not publicly discuss the trip at the time, but he has since said his “purpose” for going there was not related to vaccines and “I ended up having conversations with people, some of whom I never intended to meet.” Besides meeting with anti-vaccine activists, Kennedy met with Samoan officials, including the health minister at the time, who told NBC News that Kennedy shared his view that vaccines were not safe. Kennedy has said he went there to introduce a medical data system.
The U.S. State Department turned over the emails — many of which are heavily redacted — as a result of an open records lawsuit brought with the assistance of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
These disclosures come at a time when Kennedy, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s health secretary, has used his power and enormous public influence to overhaul federal immunization guidance and raise suspicion about the safety and importance of vaccines, including the measles vaccine. Meanwhile, measles outbreaks in multiple U.S. states have rolled back decades of success in eliminating the highly contagious disease, putting the country on the verge of losing its elimination status. The latest figures show more than 875 people in South Carolina have been infected.
RFK jr is exactly what sane minded people said he would be. I find it tragically funny how many times the magasphere and their both siding enablers like to claim some variation of “oh they will moderate”” once in office” when the record is consistently the opposite. They are who we thought they were.
Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot
Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the FDA on the experimental influenza shot, called mRNA-1010.
FDA refusing to start a review of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine based on the clinical trial design, which they previously agreed was adequate.
Vinay Prasad, who is head of the division that regulates vaccines, said it was due to be comparator being a standard dose flu vaccine. Instead of a high dose or adjuvanted vaccine, I guess? If the study population was 65+ and only received the standard dose vaccine, I can understand the reasoning, but it’s extremely concerning to say the least that Prasad is making these decisions on his own.
Who had shorts on Moderna?
A little more regulatory context-
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Typically these types of refusal to file letters are reserved for applications that are missing substantive components. Happens more than you’d think given the stakes and expense involved, but typically with small biotechs. But that’s not the case with Moderna’s application.
Second, this was signed by the head of CBER (Vinay Prasad), which isn’t typical. There was another article published today in STAT that said he overruled FDA staff with the refusal to file, but it’s behind a paywall.
www.statnews.com
He has been signing other documents directed toward vaccines lately, which to me indicates he’s overruling staff on the regular. Those include a memo to Pfizer last year to reject co-administration data with their COVID vaccine, and just recently a request to add information to seasonal flu vaccines regarding the risk of febrile seizures.
That request is based on extremely weak evidence (but full disclosure I work on one of the products affected).
All the Ways Moderna’s Flu Vaccine Rejection Letter Shocked Us
The FDA issued a rare Refusal-to-File letter to Moderna over its mRNA-based influenza vaccine application, in an unusual move that sent the biotech’s shares tumbling.
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Typically these types of refusal to file letters are reserved for applications that are missing substantive components. Happens more than you’d think given the stakes and expense involved, but typically with small biotechs. But that’s not the case with Moderna’s application.
Second, this was signed by the head of CBER (Vinay Prasad), which isn’t typical. There was another article published today in STAT that said he overruled FDA staff with the refusal to file, but it’s behind a paywall.
Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application
The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.
www.statnews.com
He has been signing other documents directed toward vaccines lately, which to me indicates he’s overruling staff on the regular. Those include a memo to Pfizer last year to reject co-administration data with their COVID vaccine, and just recently a request to add information to seasonal flu vaccines regarding the risk of febrile seizures.
That request is based on extremely weak evidence (but full disclosure I work on one of the products affected).
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Should be actionable because it's clearly arbitrary and capricious, but I'm not sure if the APA applies to rejected drug applications. However, some facts here seem to put it more into the "trying to stop completed wind farms" category.