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Dear Dr. Makary, I am sure you read the same news that we did. According to the article RFK Jr. Key Adviser Petitioned Regulators to Revoke Approval of Polio Vaccine: A key legal adviser to Robert Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, is at the center of efforts to push federal drug regulators to revoke […]
Cellular-level biology that could help develop vaccines just got more accessible to researchers, thanks to AI. The University of Pennsylvania, along with the University of Puerto Rico, received an $18 million six-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) earlier this fall to support an artificial intelligence-based RNA “BioFoundry.” “The goal is to democratize RNA […]
If there’s one thing that really, really, really irritates the living crap out of me, it’s how large swaths of the press have been describing President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in their reporting as a “vaccine skeptic,” rather than what he is, an antivaccine […]
Why Doctors Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love MAHA I have previously described the article Why Doctors Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love MAHA, by Johns Hopkins cardiologist Dr. Joseph Marine, as propaganda. That’s harsh, but I don’t throw around such accusations casually. It’s worthwhile to examine this article further, not just because […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services met with at least 10 Republican senators Monday and Tuesday, defending his views on vaccine safety and abortion to a largely friendly list of GOP lawmakers. Many senators remain mum about whether they would support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and say they are […]
Continuing his threats of legal action, Trump railed Monday against the Biden administration over the border wall material sales, saying he has spoken to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Texas officials about a potential restraining order. Congress last year required the Biden administration to dispose of the unused border wall pieces. The measure, […]
In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, declared the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey. Holding court with reporters for the first time since he won the election […]
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to temper Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long-standing controversial views on vaccines Monday, as Kennedy begins meetings with senators ahead of the Senate confirmation process for his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Speaking during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump defended the polio vaccine, but […]
Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s. Source link
Regular readers know that I am a longtime critic of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in particular his promotion of antivaccine propaganda that contributed to real deaths in a poor nation, his promotion of bizarre conspiracy theories about vaccines and COVID-19, his HIV/AIDS denialism, and, well, just about everything about this overprivileged addled fool. That is, […]