Levka on Nostr: #vaccines "Recently, when he’s answered questions about vaccines, Kennedy has ...
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"Recently, when he’s answered questions about vaccines, Kennedy has claimed that he’s 'never been anti-vaccine.' But less than 18 months ago, in July 2023, he told podcaster Lex Fridman that 'there’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.' This blatant backtrack is also difficult to believe coming from the chairman-on-leave of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the country’s largest anti-vaccine organization, who also happens to have a history of circulating misleading claims. In fact, a 2021 study of verified Twitter accounts deemed Kennedy’s personal account the top 'superspreader' of vaccine misinformation on the platform, responsible for more than 13 percent of all retweets of misinformation.
Now that he may be joining the second Trump Administration, the conspiracy theorist and founder of CHD could not only oversee the department’s $1.7 trillion budget, but its 13 operating divisions as well, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
While Kennedy’s typical anti-vaccine messaging was noticeably absent on the campaign trail, it has returned since he joined up with Trump, albeit in a different, unexpected form: milquetoast statements about vaccines and research that almost anyone would agree with, regardless of their political affiliation. While this bizarre doublespeak appears reasonable on the surface, in reality, undermines public health, and jeopardizes the country’s future.
Some of Kennedy’s most detailed policy proposals thus far came in a September op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, a month after he threw his support behind Trump. The piece described a number of goals he hoped to achieve were he to become part of the administration, like devoting half of NIH research budgets to 'preventive, alternative, and holistic approaches to health'; not permitting food stamps to be used to buy soda or processed foods; and reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test. But it didn’t mention vaccines."
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rfk-jr-anti-vaxxer-history-1235169084/
"Recently, when he’s answered questions about vaccines, Kennedy has claimed that he’s 'never been anti-vaccine.' But less than 18 months ago, in July 2023, he told podcaster Lex Fridman that 'there’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.' This blatant backtrack is also difficult to believe coming from the chairman-on-leave of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the country’s largest anti-vaccine organization, who also happens to have a history of circulating misleading claims. In fact, a 2021 study of verified Twitter accounts deemed Kennedy’s personal account the top 'superspreader' of vaccine misinformation on the platform, responsible for more than 13 percent of all retweets of misinformation.
Now that he may be joining the second Trump Administration, the conspiracy theorist and founder of CHD could not only oversee the department’s $1.7 trillion budget, but its 13 operating divisions as well, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
While Kennedy’s typical anti-vaccine messaging was noticeably absent on the campaign trail, it has returned since he joined up with Trump, albeit in a different, unexpected form: milquetoast statements about vaccines and research that almost anyone would agree with, regardless of their political affiliation. While this bizarre doublespeak appears reasonable on the surface, in reality, undermines public health, and jeopardizes the country’s future.
Some of Kennedy’s most detailed policy proposals thus far came in a September op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, a month after he threw his support behind Trump. The piece described a number of goals he hoped to achieve were he to become part of the administration, like devoting half of NIH research budgets to 'preventive, alternative, and holistic approaches to health'; not permitting food stamps to be used to buy soda or processed foods; and reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test. But it didn’t mention vaccines."
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rfk-jr-anti-vaxxer-history-1235169084/