“The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” Kennedy said in the third paragraph of a lengthy post on the social media platform X … He also said he had instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to “supply pharmacies and Texas run clinics with needed MMR vaccines,” along with other medical supplies.
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“We voted for challenging the medical establishment, not parroting it,” posted Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a Texas-based physician who has opposed COVID vaccines and is currently fighting a complaint from Texas’s medical board over hospital admitting privileges …
“Kennedy was one of those candidates that attracted people who might not vote for Trump,” Bowden told NPR in an interview. Much of the attraction was from people who were “very fed up with what happened during the pandemic,” she says. “Neither Biden or Trump were willing to even talk about the pandemic, and Kennedy was,” she says.
[Bowden] says that Kennedy’s decision to endorse the MMR vaccine to control the outbreak reminds her of the heavy-handed response to COVID.
“Do we need to make a proclamation, ‘Ok, this is what needs to be done’?” she says. “That’s what rubs me the wrong way.”
On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the families of two girls who had died from measles in West Texas—and raised doubts about the safety of vaccines. “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,‘” Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter Daisy’s funeral had been held just hours earlier, told me. “I actually asked him about it.” …
Silly English person. They need to evidence, real or manufactured.
They will select a panel of “experts” who will write a report baldly asserting that vaccines cause autism. Their say-so is good enough for the administration criminal regime and will be plenty good for their syncophantic followers once Faux the propaganda ministry tells them what to think. Which is that these experts are of course right.
His hand-picked “expert”, David Geier (once disciplined by the Maryland medical board for practicing medicine without a license, and who with his fellow antivax dad ran a chain of clinics offering chemical castration “therapy” to autistic boys), if past behavior is any indication, will cherry-pick info from a database like VAERS or the Vaccine Safety Datalink and manipulate it to “prove” a vaccine-autism link. He could conduct an online survey (see Steve Kirsch), or comb through Medicaid records.
It’s not hard to do when you have a pre-determined conclusion. “First the verdict, then the trial.”
As it is based on submissions by the public, VAERS is susceptible to unverified reports, misattribution, underreporting, and inconsistent data quality.[3] Raw, unverified data from VAERS has often been used by the anti-vaccine community to justify misinformation regarding the safety of vaccines; it is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused an adverse event, or how common the event might be.[4]
I can just see RFK, Jr. asking Musk to have his tech bros create some bots to flood VAERS with adverse event reports caused by vaccination. And DOGE then could cut even more funding for vaccine research since it’s not only wasteful but actually harmful!
Apr 12, 2025
From his cluelessness about critical cuts made to his agency, to his celebration of dangerous quackery, Robert. F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s HHS secretary, is distinguishing himself as not only incompetent but dangerously so, leading a department with lives at stake. Rachel Maddow reports.
Even a person with only a fifth-grade understanding of science can see the problem: no scientist can promise a definitive “answer” to a complex biological question at the beginning of a study. Nor can anyone confidently declare they’ll have that inquiry wrapped up in a few short months, as if they’re writing a summer book report instead of conducting a scientific investigation.
But it’s easy enough to make these declarations when you’ve pre-determined your conclusion, and the only work left is to generate some fake statistics to back up that preordained “discovery.” In the spirit of open-mindedness, I suppose I should pretend we must wait to see whatever nonsense is produced before judging it. In the spirit of common sense, however, there is no point in playing dumb. Kennedy has already indicated what he expects the “findings” to be: that vaccines did it, even though all legitimate science shows that is false. To make sure no real science accidentally happens, he has put a non-scientist/non-doctor in charge of this non-study: David Geier, a man who has been fined for practicing medicine without a license. Worse, his “treatments” of children are better described as pointless torture.
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Kennedy’s claim that his team of non-scientists and quacks will discover the “cause” of autism in a few short months is preposterous on its face. It’s worse because scientists already know why autism rates have risen. As public health specialist Dr. Atul Gawande told Pod Save America last week, the main reason is “we have become much more liberal about diagnosing people on the spectrum.” There is no concurrent rise, he noted, in the number of cases of severe autism.
He really has no idea that part of the increase in autism diagnosis is that it is now considered a spectrum so that Asperger’s syndrome is for example reclassified as high functioning autism. Here is what he said about autistic people today:
“They’ll never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”
I want to ask him if he is aware that Elon Musk has stated that he is on the autism spectrum.
I’ve heard RFK Jr. described as sort of a eugenical Calvinist, and it seems apt. In his view, he and the rest of the aristocracy are part of the Elect who don’t need medicine or vaccines because it is their destiny to rule, and those who do need those things are their genetic inferiors who shouldn’t be suffered to live since they’re just polluting the genepool.
Kinda sounds like he’s describing himself, dunnit?
I assume that Musk must have gone on a date in order to have children in the double digits. After what I heard today I’m not so sure.
“And as the Wall Street Journal reports, there could be countless other women like St. Clair, who have quietly given birth to more of Musk’s children.
In fact, according to the newspaper’s reporting, Musk has made a habit of sending unsolicited DMs to women on Twitter, often in right-wing political circles, offering them to have his babies.
Case in point, per the WSJ, Musk asked pro-Trump crypto influencer Tiffany Fong on X-formerly-Twitter if she was interested in having his child, despite having never met in person.
Fong shut him down, only to see her earnings and engagement drop precipitously on the platform shortly after.”
See, RFK Jr. is really trying to make people healthier. After all, people on cruise ships probably don’t exercise or eat right, so why not make cruises so unpopular that no one would want to use one? Logic!
Those cruise ship inspectors are paid for by fees from the cruise ship industry. Similarly, a few months ago, they were firing people responsible for reviewing proposed new medical devices, who were similarly paid for from industry fees.
