from the down-with-the-sickness dept
The second most irritating facet of RFK Jr.’s efficiency as the pinnacle of Well being and Human Providers has been simply how predictable the actions he’s taken are. Once you begin with a easy premise, that Kennedy is a vehement anti-vaxxer, the view that measles is much less dangerous than the MMR vaccine is sensible. The appointment of different wellness charlatans tracks completely. The pulling again on COVID vaccination steerage suits like a puzzle piece. And it needs to be no shock that Kennedy determined to fireside each single vaccine skilled on the ACIP panel to clear the way in which for his anti-vaxxer views.
However actually, actually, probably the most irritating a part of his reign so far has been Congress’ full unwillingness to finish this period of malfunction, or in any manner try to manage it. From Kennedy’s nomination hearings all the way in which to the current, our representatives in Washington have sat again, arms folded, utterly disinterested within the very actual hurt and, sure, deaths which can be and can happen because of Kennedy’s incompetence.
However, god rattling it, I’ve to imagine that Congress a minimum of may need an issue being lied to straight by Kennedy. And that seems to be what he did when he despatched a report to again up his altering of the COVID vaccine steerage. The report is reportedly stuffed with research which can be both unpublished, underneath present dispute, or which don’t really say what he says they are saying. Misinformation, in different phrases, fed straight by the HHS Secretary to a Congress that’s purported to oversee his work.
Titled “Covid Suggestion FAQ”, the doc has not been posted on the HHS web site, although it’s the first detailed clarification of Kennedy’s announcement from the company. Medical consultants who reviewed all of the citations within the FAQ mentioned it distorts some legit research and cites others which can be disputed and unpublished.
One of many research the HHS doc cites is underneath investigation by its writer, Sage Journals, concerning “potential points with the analysis methodology and conclusions and writer conflicts of curiosity,” in accordance with a hyperlink on the research’s webpage.
“That is RFK Jr.’s playbook,” mentioned Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the Committee on Infectious Illnesses for the American Academy of Pediatrics and an assistant professor of pediatrics on the College of Colorado College of Medication. “Both cherry-pick from good science or take junk science to assist his premise — this has been his playbook for 20 years.”
To that finish, there are extra points with the analysis and research powering this doc of bullshit. Quite than simply revealed research which can be underneath present dispute, a number of the research cited haven’t even been revealed but. Meaning no peer assessment. Kennedy has been fairly fond not too long ago of the phrase “gold commonplace science”, as if he simply discovered it. He doesn’t appear to know what it means, nonetheless. Peer reviewed research are the gold commonplace in science and medical analysis, for what needs to be painfully clearly causes. Even the NIH’s personal website acknowledges this. In case your analysis or paper can’t survive the scrutiny of your friends, how good can it actually be?
Different research, together with unpublished research, are cited in assist of the CDC’s new steerage regardless of these research explicitly stating that they shouldn’t be.
One other research cited within the doc is a preprint that was made accessible on-line a 12 months in the past, and has nonetheless not been revealed in a peer-reviewed journal. Beneath the research’s title is an alert that “it studies new medical analysis that has but to be evaluated and so shouldn’t be used to information scientific follow.”
The FAQ attracts on the preprint to say that “post-marketing research” of COVID vaccines have recognized “severe adversarial results, resembling an elevated danger of myocarditis and pericarditis” — situations by which the guts’s muscle or its protecting, the pericardium, endure irritation.
Whereas analysis early within the pandemic did discover that, new analysis not included within the memo signifies that the danger has fallen with new vaccine protocols.
Extra cherry choosing, it appears, together with an entire disregard for the very researchers that carried out the analysis as to how it’s used. Kennedy not too long ago claimed his HHS would comply with the science and scientists wherever the info leads. He’s not, as a result of it doesn’t conform to his agenda.
After which there are the bald-faced lies.
In two situations, the HHS memo makes claims about risks to pregnant girls which can be actively refuted by the papers it cites to again them up. Each papers assist the protection and effectiveness of COVID vaccines for pregnant girls.
The HHS doc says that one other paper it cites discovered “a rise in placental blood clotting in pregnant moms who took the vaccine.” However the paper doesn’t include any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant girls.
“I’ve now learn it thrice. And I can’t discover that wherever,” mentioned Turrentine, the OB-GYN professor.
If he have been grading the HHS doc, “I might give this an ‘F,’” Turrentine mentioned. “This isn’t supported by something and it’s not utilizing medical proof.”
People, there must be zero situations of our authorities working on lies in the case of creating coverage. However that’s all that is. An agenda-driven madman heading up HHS altering coverage and packages with a wave of a hand to comport along with his misguided agenda, all whereas it’s being supported by both AI-generated slop or regardless of the hell this FAQ-of-lies is.
So, to members of Congress on one aspect of the political aisle, I merely ask this: have you ever no satisfaction? You’re okay with being spoon-fed lies from a former democrat just because Expensive Chief says so? You’re okay with having blood in your arms because of your incapability to do your job performing oversight? You’re okay with being the helpful fool in Kennedy’s agenda?
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