RFK Jr.'s message to parents of newborns considering vaccination: "Do your own research." Yes, really. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u... - ThreadSky

sherylnyt.bsky.social • 30 days ago

RFK Jr.'s message to parents of newborns considering vaccination: "Do your own research."

Yes, really. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/kennedy-vaccines-research.html

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darthwaiter.bsky.social•29 days ago

Citizen "doctors" unite

suburbanbear.bsky.social•30 days ago

Gonna be hard to get a PHD and do decades of research before the baby is born!

jashleyphoto.bsky.social•30 days ago

Nice one RFK when the government manipulates and suppress data, it’s hard to do your own research.

hkfinan.bsky.social•30 days ago

Do prospective parents still interview pediatricians? I’m out of that demo but noticed 12 years ago pediatrician was refusing to see unvaxed patients

mounty.bsky.social•30 days ago

Ahh yes, parents of newborns are famously well-equipped to examine and contextualize immunology primary literature spanning the last 50 years.

mikesmolloy.bsky.social•30 days ago

What do our tax dollars pay for? 🤷‍♂️

lmltelegraph.bsky.social•30 days ago

Who knew parenting required a PhD in immunology?

tomasoid.bsky.social•30 days ago

And by that he meant - let your child die of a long-eradicated disease 🦠

mmrubio.bsky.social•30 days ago

Really thought he was an expert

abarcks.bsky.social•30 days ago

I can hear the public librarians crying…

listentoshaft.bsky.social•30 days ago

The head of HHS telling Americans they can’t trust him or their own government.

thegrayghost5.bsky.social•30 days ago

RFK Jr. Is an idiot. It should be illegal for him to offer advice on anything. It probably already is!👽

enyadreams.bsky.social•29 days ago

I did my own research, apparently vaccines work.

idosound.bsky.social•30 days ago

F'KING idiot!
Parents,
Follow what the doctor says, and not this F'KING YouTube grad wannabe!

mediocrecoder.bsky.social•30 days ago

“… because we’re not doing it fir you”

dfourny.bsky.social•30 days ago

RFK, Jr is so dangerous.

meh333.bsky.social•30 days ago

“You too can have an infant die of whooping cough!”

energyscholar.bsky.social•29 days ago

Actually he's redirected a team of 50 scientists at CDC to investigate the issue of vaccination and possible side effects.

They're already delving into this evidence base:

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-do-vaccines-cause-autism

nuancey.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes, but the scientists have to do the research so you can look into it.

stormageddon.bsky.social•30 days ago

"Do your own research" by this terrorist grifter liar roughly translates to "Take all my commercially motivated evil lies for truth and be deathly afraid of vaccines. That way, you can give me all your money while vaccine-preventable diseases murder your kids".

jtranesax.bsky.social•30 days ago

When your kid dies from a preventable disease, you only have yourself to blame. If someone else's kid dies from your stupidity, you should go to jail for murder.

msmiggleton.bsky.social•30 days ago

Just like he did...

blue-at-birth.bsky.social•29 days ago

I bet he will supply the redacted research papers and not mention how many deaths he is responsible for

lucy7083.bsky.social•30 days ago

My message to parents is to talk to their doctors and not be persuaded by this former heroin addict with a worm in his brain

energyscholar.bsky.social•29 days ago

Sure. Meanwhile a large team of CDC scientists is reviewing the evidence base. CDC will publish an honest assessment of this evidence base. Which doctors will presumably base decisions on.

Where's the problem?

Here's a link to the evidence base in question:

tugboatshelia.bsky.social•30 days ago

I had a Ped tell me to do my own research. My questions were about the covid shot causing heart problems in boys. I said YOU are my research and she shrugged it off.
Really fun complaint to the board to write.

lucy7083.bsky.social•30 days ago

You know here is my response to you. You need to find another doctor. After working in healthcare for 40 years, some doctors are better than others. You want to find a doctor that really cares about your children and that will explain to you the benefits versus the risks

tugboatshelia.bsky.social•30 days ago

Oh I absolutely did. This was at the very start of the pandemic when the shots were new.

wckrause.bsky.social•30 days ago

"Do your own research" is code for believe everything you read on the internets.

plantz3610.bsky.social•30 days ago

Does this include folks who believe this dude is going to cure measles that also posess a 6th grade reading level mastery?

jksharp.bsky.social•30 days ago

First get your doctorate in a medical field, then talk to experts.

artwells.com•30 days ago

"Get post-graduate degrees in immunology and epidemiology while you raise your child." He continued. "Or just reduce your threshold of certainty and guess your way through. I really don't care."

ridem24.bsky.social•30 days ago

My research showed me a lying pig this evil man is.

herronbird.bsky.social•30 days ago

Why the fuck is that headline @nytimes.com for this catastrophic derangement?

joewv.bsky.social•30 days ago

If anti-vax parents truly believe pediatricians, universities, and hospitals are trying to hurt their babies, why do they continue to use those services?

steeltalon.bsky.social•30 days ago

Who is going to provide the parents with time and money to get numerous PhDs and then the labs and materials to do this research

louannd.bsky.social•30 days ago

Whole JFKjr and OZ rewrite the available research to reflect their perspective vs the decades of valid & reliable research

brianwcooley.bsky.social•30 days ago

After they erased all scientific reseach data? Idiot probably replaced the sites with scooby doo cartoons!

mrvillageidiot.bsky.social•30 days ago

Want to have kids?

You should go to med school and become a pediatrician.

Don’t have the time, money, or smarts for med school?

Just watch some shitty YouTube videos that will tell you the REAL story about vaccines.

sirmasksalot.bsky.social•30 days ago

I've always thought that the perfect time to carry out a systematic review is at 3am. while you try and calm and feed a screaming baby.

jeffholcomb.bsky.social•30 days ago

The mantra of fools.

willrosecrans.com•30 days ago

... but he shut down the research institutes, so they can't really go get a job as a researcher and actually do their own research either.

artimage.bsky.social•30 days ago

teri-sez-hi.bsky.social•30 days ago

RFK Jr. is a brain-damaged ex-drug addict. No one should be taking medical advice from this conman grifter, making millions💰💰 off of ppl playing a medical expert! Don't entrust your life or your loved ones' lives in the hands of this scam artist. Vaccines save lives and slow the spread of diseases💯

nordaltsee.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/well/health-information-accurate-online.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

kccab.bsky.social•30 days ago

Hope Dr Bill Cassidy is happy he violated his medical oath for political convenience and put a sociopath as head of HHS

fpardalis.bsky.social•30 days ago

“Do your own research.” Right. Like every other Trump appointment, he’s not there to create or research anything.
Trump put him there to dismantle HHS and destroy it. Patel destroyed the FBI. Hegseth destroyed DOD. Musk destroyed all social services. Everything seems to be going according to plan.

donnaschoon.bsky.social•30 days ago

What a leader, not!!

mark-darson.bsky.social•30 days ago

Killing babies. Torturing parents. MAGA!

joehmr.bsky.social•30 days ago

Put that on their damn hat.

mikejharr.bsky.social•30 days ago

Better advice would have been “Listen to your baby’s pediatrician.” That would have been the responsible thing to say. Of course, it’s not what he chose to say.

iftahayounak.bsky.social•30 days ago

An awful lot of pediatricians seem to be reluctant to come down firmly on the side of vaccines these days. Most of them hem and haw. I think they've been cowed by these MAGA/MAHA morons.

ace2448.bsky.social•30 days ago

He was put in place to make us less healthy & sick. Because we’ll be easier to control. Authoritarian 101.

lordhonkhonk.bsky.social•30 days ago

Shocked that he hasn't hired Harry Fisher to be his PR head.

noteom.bsky.social•30 days ago

they should make their own vaccines too

ryanmichael80.bsky.social•30 days ago

Or look into the people that have studied medicine and done the research.

timesink.bsky.social•30 days ago

he looks and sounds like his brain is pure charcoal

rrm923.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thanks a lot ... For nothing!

mogigo.bsky.social•30 days ago

And doesn't all the research say vaccinations are safe?

johnfw.bsky.social•30 days ago

kyeburn.bsky.social•30 days ago

Cool. He means they will run large placebo controlled trials? Or maybe follow some large cohorts for 5 years?

Oh... He means random shit off social media and Josh Rogan... Sigh....

gmanv001.bsky.social•30 days ago

I have a message for RFK jr. go fuck off

jmaree.bsky.social•30 days ago

Staggering comment to make 😢

wrcactus.bsky.social•30 days ago

This man is mentally ill and has no business advising anyone on anything.

bobalu2.bsky.social•30 days ago

danlybarger.bsky.social•30 days ago

If he had done any research, he would not be obsessing about thimerosal.

jeanchimera.bsky.social•30 days ago

Which isn't even in vaccines anymore.

danlybarger.bsky.social•30 days ago

Correct. This guy raves about problems that don’t exist. The brain worm must have died from lack of nourishment.

agent0range.bsky.social•30 days ago

I also encourage people to do their own research, by which I mean they should earn a doctorate by spending years in a lab conducting scholarly scientific research.

I do not, however, mean Googling things one doesn't understand for ten minutes until one's limited attention span expires.

rmoore31415926.bsky.social•30 days ago

Clinical trials in their basement?

ericbanks.bsky.social•30 days ago

Aka watch YouTube videos that support your preconceived opinions.

jeanchimera.bsky.social•30 days ago

No, no, no! I found this great Facebook Group. It's called "We Did Our Own Research and We Hate Vaccines, Pasteurized Milk, and Fresh Whales."

bibliomaniac.bsky.social•30 days ago

Total abnegation of the responsibilities of a public health official. He’s a menace to our health.

michiganmomof3.bsky.social•30 days ago

I am so sick of tired of people saying they are “researching” aka reading crap on the internet. Read an actual research paper and see how much work the researchers put into it. That’s ACTUAL research.

queenbeewolf.bsky.social•30 days ago

We are doomed

soblue2024.bsky.social•30 days ago

We won’t make many more 100 days of this administration. I hold Senate Republicans responsible. Looking at you, Hawley and Schmitt.

marinacat.bsky.social•28 days ago

I think it’s going to be difficult for parents to source funding, find subjects, and conduct the tests while having a newborn in the home.

marsisblu.bsky.social•30 days ago

Don’t listen to astronomers that say the Earth goes around the Sun; do your own research…

asharpie.bsky.social•30 days ago

If the Earth goes around the sun, how come we never see the back side of it?

marsisblu.bsky.social•30 days ago

We do, six mos every year.

asharpie.bsky.social•30 days ago

That makes sense. I go south six months every winter in Florida. That's why I don't see it.

phillyinz.bsky.social•30 days ago

If it's one thing new parents famously have, it's the time and energy to conduct a meta review of scientific literature.

mikemccrae.bsky.social•30 days ago

I did this 3D image in a Covid era Halloween theme but here we are again

tnetennba.bsky.social•30 days ago

In charge of a health department and saying your opinion is better than a doctors knowledge.

How can people be this ignorant

smhl2024.bsky.social•30 days ago

Because I sure as hell don't know what I'm talking about.

horaciotraveler.bsky.social•30 days ago

This guy thinks that to Google something makes you a specialist, a professional. Ignorance is the mother of arrogance.

btpowered.bsky.social•30 days ago

In the words of John Oliver: FUCK YOU RFK JR.

copyvet.bsky.social•30 days ago

Dr. Phil. Dr. Oz. Where’s Oprah?

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