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The Truth about RFK Jr

From HHS: "The assessment also documents a significant decline in public trust in health care institutions between 2020 and 2024, alongside falling childhood vaccination rates and increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases.

“Public health works only when people trust it,” Dr. Makary said. “That trust depends on transparency, rigorous science, and respect for families. This decision recommits HHS to all three.”

The accepted recommendations recognize there is a need for more and better gold standard science, including placebo-controlled randomized trials and long-term observational studies to better characterize vaccine benefits, risks, and outcomes. HHS agencies are called on to fund this gold standard science for all vaccines on the schedule.

“Science demands continuous evaluation,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said. “This decision commits NIH, CDC, and FDA to gold standard science, greater transparency, and ongoing reassessment as new data emerge.”"
 
Chris_Halkides said:
“Science demands continuous evaluation,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said. “This decision commits NIH, CDC, and FDA to gold standard science, greater transparency, and ongoing reassessment as new data emerge.”"
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"Gold standard science" is code. What they mean is double blind peer reviewed studies. And the reason they focus on this is that they know that it is unethical to do double blinded studies on vaccines.

Therefore vaccines are not "gold standard" and we do not endorse them any more.
 
At his Substack Beyond the Noise Paul Offit wrote, "Kennedy recently funded a $1.6 million, 14,000-person study in Guinea-Bissau set to begin in early 2026. Investigators will divide 14,000 newborns into two groups. One group will receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, as recommended by the WHO. The other group won’t receive the vaccine until 6 weeks of age, a continuation of the woefully substandard care that has put so many children in Guinea-Bissau at risk. Because it is unethical and cruel, this study could never be performed in the United States."

He continued, "The study will be conducted over 5 years. Children who are infected with hepatitis B virus at birth don’t develop chronic liver disease for decades. Therefore, RFK Jr. is unlikely to know about how much harm his “study” has done during the 5-year period. The study is single-blinded. This means that investigators will know whether children received a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine, but the parents won’t know. This allows for investigator bias, where the investigator might find vague neurodevelopmental problems in the birth-dose group but not the 6-week group."
 
On social media Dr. Alex Sundermann wrote, "There were major policy changes from HHS yesterday that are misguided and will have serious consequences for public health. Let’s walk through the stated “rationale” for influenza specifically and why it doesn’t hold up
In summary:
1. Wrong study design for rare outcomes
2. Real-world data shows vaccines reduce hospitalizations
3. Cochrane flagged trial limits - not vaccine failure
4.Not measuring transmission ≠ no benefit
5. Vaccine risks are rare - infection risks are higher
So if this is the justification for influenza, do you think the reasoning is stronger for the other diseases?
 
On X Jake Scott MD wrote, "And yes, American children have been at risk. Before the hepatitis B birth dose, 18,000 children a year were infected. Before rotavirus vaccination, 55,000 to 70,000 children were hospitalized annually. Before Hib vaccination, it was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in American children. These diseases didn't disappear on their own. Vaccination made them rare. The question isn't whether American children have been at risk. The question is why we're abandoning the protections that reduced that risk."
 
Jess Steier and colleagues (Unbiased Science) discussed the recent change in the childhood recommended vaccine schedule:

2. Even those of us “in the know” are genuinely confused.

And I think that might be the point.

We’ve been told that vaccines will still be covered by insurance. Okay, great. But what about families who want the second HPV dose? What about parents who want to vaccinate their child before age 11? What about the pediatrician who now has to figure out which vaccines to stock, which to order on request, and how to document “shared clinical decision-making” for every single shot that used to be routine?

Nobody has clear answers. And when nobody has clear answers, people default to doing nothing.
 
Jeremy Faust hosted a an hour-long discussion (Doctor's Lounge) about the schedule change, some of which he summarized at Inside Medicine. "We pivot to one of the most consequential and confusing pieces: RSV prevention in infants. We stress that nirsevimab is a monoclonal antibody—immediate passive protection—not a traditional vaccine. The “denial-to-minimization” pattern shows up here: RSV was once invoked to downplay COVID risks for kids; now RSV is minimized too...We stress a central epidemiologic reality: in kids, many severe outcomes occur in children without known risk factors. You often discover “high risk” after catastrophe hits. Demetre notes that ACIP data show a large share of RSV hospitalizations occur in children without underlying conditions—making “risk-only” strategies predictably leaky."
 
arthwollipot said:
"Gold standard science" is code. What they mean is double blind peer reviewed studies. And the reason they focus on this is that they know that it is unethical to do double blinded studies on vaccines.

Therefore vaccines are not "gold standard" and we do not endorse them any more.
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When they didn't have resposibility for setting health care policy they were insisting on double blinded studies testing against placebo. Now that they are, they've changed their tune, finding that "trust me, brah, I'm MAHA" is the true gold standard science.
 
On a YouTube video Dr. Noc examined the change in the schedule, and he included a clip of testimony from Dr. Susan Monarez. On social media the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wrote, "Weakening the childhood vaccination schedule puts the health and well-being of children and their families at risk...The CDC itself estimates that the vaccination of children born between 1994 and 2023 will have prevented 508 million illnesses, helped avoid more than 1.1 million deaths, and saved nearly $2.7 trillion in societal costs. Yet through RFK Jri's changes, people will suffer inevitable consequences like preventable illness and disabilities, hospitalizations, and even death."
 
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The New York Times reported, "In a striking reversal of past nutrition guidance, the Trump administration released new dietary guidelines on Wednesday that flip the food pyramid on its head, putting steak, cheese and whole milk near the top...But Mr. Kennedy was dismissive of the recommendations of an expert committee tapped to oversee the guidelines during the Biden administration, instead turning to a new set of handpicked experts who worked in secret over the last few months. Mr. Kennedy had criticized previous guidelines as being influenced by food industries, but at least two of the scientific experts have significant conflicts of interest, including receiving funding from or advising the beef or dairy industries, and working with Kraft and Nestle, two large producers of processed foods."
 
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