RFK Jr, HHS & MAHA

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Someone I know posted the photo on Facebook, and someone else I know commented that the photo is fake. The person that said it is fake used to be a friend on Facebook but I had to drop her because she is a Libetarian who lives in a fantasy world.
 
nycfan said:
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Not sure how common knowledge what an IRB is, but their only purpose it to keep participants safe during human clinical trials. There's no conceivable worlsd in which removing IRBs leads to greater public good.

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IDE Institutional Review Boards (IRB)

The IDE Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviews and monitors biomedical research involving human subjects.
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Under FDA regulations, an IRB is an appropriately constituted group that has been formally designated to review and monitor biomedical research involving human subjects. In accordance with FDA regulations, an IRB has the authority to approve, require modifications in (to secure approval), or disapprove research. This group review serves an important role in the protection of the rights, safety and welfare of human research subjects.

The purpose of IRB review is to assure, both in advance and by periodic review, that appropriate steps are taken to protect the rights, safety and welfare of humans participating as subjects in the research. To accomplish this purpose, IRBs use a group process to review research protocols and related materials (e.g., informed consent documents). The IRB must monitor and review an investigation throughout the clinical study.

If an IRB determines that an investigation involves a significant risk device, it must notify the investigator and, if appropriate, the sponsor. The sponsor may not begin the investigation until approved by FDA.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
So first Tylenol was dangerous, now Ibuprofen? I guess they really don't want the average person having access to any painkillers at all. Maybe they'll lead a back-to-opium movement to deal with pain!
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I think what's most galling is that JD Vance seems to think he's well informed enough to tell the public what drugs, like ibuprofen, are 'necessary, safe and effective.' Who does this pompous douchebag think he is? He has no medical credentials whatsoever. But this is MAGA. Breathtaking arrogance.
 
Bobfripp said:
I think what's most galling is that JD Vance seems to think he's well informed enough to tell the public what drugs, like ibuprofen, are 'necessary, safe and effective.' Who does this pompous douchebag think he is? He has no medical credentials whatsoever. But this is MAGA. Breathtaking arrogance.
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They all stayed in a Holiday Inn once, apparently. One of the key points of the whole MAGA movement is that it is profoundly anti-expert, anti-credentials, anti-qualifications. People don't need no stinkin' experts to tell them what to do or what to think! They just need some "common sense" and to go with what their gut tells them. So this is what you end up with - people like Pete Hegseth, who has no qualifications to run anything, end up as Secretary of Defense and just ignore the advice of military professionals and impose their gung-ho macho GI Joe fantasies onto our military. Medical quacks and charlatans suddenly become the administrators and powers in our national health agencies, and medical professionals are fired or driven out. A pro wrestling executive is in charge of the education department. And so on. It's not just that they're arrogant, they're actually proud of their own ignorance, and want to rub it in everyone's faces.
 
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Mulberry Heel said:
So first Tylenol was dangerous, now Ibuprofen? I guess they really don't want the average person having access to any painkillers at all. Maybe they'll lead a back-to-opium movement to deal with pain!
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This administration seems to relish human suffering so, hey, why not add physical pain to the economic, psychological, etc. pain that they're already inflicting on the American public.
 
Can't find an article on it, but Morning Joe is reporting that the CDC is now falsely stating on it's website that vaccines may cause autism.
 
Kennedy has also recently been talking about the use of aluminum in vaccines and at least one source (STAT News, behind a paywall) has suggested they may move to ban it. Aluminum is used in tiny quantities to enhance the immune response and hasn’t been reliably linked to any adverse outcomes. If they ban aluminum, that would knock out almost every vaccine.
 
nrsair said:
Kennedy has also recently been talking about the use of aluminum in vaccines and at least one source (STAT News, behind a paywall) has suggested they may move to ban it. Aluminum is used in tiny quantities to enhance the immune response and hasn’t been reliably linked to any adverse outcomes. If they ban aluminum, that would knock out almost every vaccine.
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Be interesting how they could ban aluminum in vaccines but not in cookware, foil and the beverage industry since it's known to leach into food and beverages. I'm sure they can make up something to suggest that carefully regulated amounts in medicine are much more dangerous that unregulated and unknown compounds formed by the various acids and other food and beverage ingredients. Maybe the constant exposure creates an immunity that a microdose in a vaccine doesn't.
 
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“… In an interview on Thursday explaining why the C.D.C. website now says the claim that vaccines do not cause autism is not “evidence-based,” Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that large-scale epidemiological studies of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine had found no link to autism, and that studies of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal had also shown no link.

But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science. He said he ordered the C.D.C. to change its guidance in part because high-quality large studies had not been conducted to examine a potential link between autism and other shots given in the first year of life. Those include the hepatitis B vaccine and a combination shot that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough.

In his view, sweeping statements like “vaccines don’t cause autism” are unproven, and have been deployed by public health leaders who want to ease parents’ fears.

He said he is not saying vaccines cause autism; he is simply saying there is no proof that they don’t.

“The whole thing about ‘vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,’ is just a lie,” Mr. Kennedy said in the interview, his first with a major print publication. He added, “The phrase ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not supported by science.”

It is highly unusual for a health secretary to personally order a change to scientific guidance.…”
 
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