RFK Jr, HHS & MAHA

[uncgriff]

I have long told family members who traffic in alternative medicine to trust a naturopath seven days a week and twice on a Sunday over a chiro. I do not trust naturopaths.

And yet when you are really sick or need surgery or are in the ICU there won't be a chiropractor to be seen.

 

[UNCMSinLS]

“… Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker.

Acting CDC Director O’Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.”

Says the guy who voted to approve RFK JR. Shouldn't this post be in the FAFO thread too.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

“… The advisers, many of whom share Kennedy's anti-vaccine views, provided no evidence of new harms from the shot. They argued that vaccination was too broad compared to the risk of infection and that U.S. policy was out of step with certain developed countries.

… Many people with hepatitis B do not have symptoms and are unaware of their infection. In infants and young children, an initial infection becomes chronic in about 95% of cases, potentially causing liver damage and liver cancer decades later, according to the World Health Organization.

… HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Reuters "there is no way to infer broader change" from the decision on hepatitis B shots or assume that it “sets a template for rolling back other childhood vaccine recommendations.”

… Robert Malone, vice chair of the ACIP panel, supported the new recommendation. Public health "is focused on maximizing the greatest good for the greatest number," he said. "The counterbalance to that is the need to respect the rights of the individual for self-determination."

… Leading U.S. medical societies, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, and at least 12 states said they would ignore the new recommendation and continue to support the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns. They include Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island.…”

 

[altmin]

This really sums it up for me. The victory of pseudoscience

How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA - POLITICO https://share.google/au9bsHzr5rPWntGED

The guy who found chiropractic therapy believe he could heal people with his hands because his body had too much magnetism.

 

[finesse]

To be the success he was, he must have had a galvanizing personality.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

… Robert Malone, vice chair of the ACIP panel, supported the new recommendation. Public health "is focused on maximizing the greatest good for the greatest number," he said. "The counterbalance to that is the need to respect the rights of the individual for self-determination."

And that, in a nutshell, explains what is wrong with so much of our society and politics today. Far too many Americans have rejected the old notion that sometimes community good outweighs individual choice, such as with vaccines. Protecting the public's health with provably safe vaccines should outweigh individual choice when it comes to preventing the return of diseases that could kill thousands or even millions of people, or lead them to suffer permanent physical damage that could limit their lives.

But conservatives have successfully convinced tens of millions of people that their own personal choices, no matter how ignorant or shortsighted or unsupported by any credible, provable evidence, should outweigh any other considerations to anyone else, and to deny the weight of medical and scientific evidence in many different areas because they are advocated by dreaded "elitist experts" who shouldn't be able to tell anyone how to live their lives. And a lot of people are going to die because of this nonsense.