Samoa was on the brink of crisis. Vaccine rates had plummeted and measles was spreading globally. So Kennedy and his chief informatics officer (the data doc behind a notoriously bad study in the U.S.) went with an offer: a data system that would track the outcome of unvaxxed vs vaxxed kids. - ThreadSky

brandyzadrozny.bsky.social • 38 days ago

Samoa was on the brink of crisis. Vaccine rates had plummeted and measles was spreading globally. So Kennedy and his chief informatics officer (the data doc behind a notoriously bad study in the U.S.) went with an offer: a data system that would track the outcome of unvaxxed vs vaxxed kids.

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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social•38 days ago

Also never reported: As measles spread, RFK Jr. coordinated with a local anti-vaccine activist—connecting him with a group of anti-vaxx doctors in the U.S. to treat Samoa’s sick children with unproven cures. As hospitals filled with dying children, Kennedy's group promoted vitamins over vaccines.

brandyzadrozny.bsky.social•38 days ago

Kennedy is obsessed with these studies. He wrote a book arguing for trials that would withhold vaccines from kids, calling ethical concerns “a sham.” He consistently ignores the many good studies that have been done and relyies on bad and retracted research from anti-vaxxers. https://tinyurl.com/39taxurf

brandyzadrozny.bsky.social•38 days ago

Samoan officials declined Kennedy's offer, and learned the hard way what happens when kids aren't vaccinated. What can it tell us about what Kennedy, as HHS Secretary, will do when vaccine rates fall and infectious disease spreads? Confirmation hearings are next week. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rfk-jr-samoa-measles-vaccine-crisis-rcna187787

randomsurvivor.bsky.social•38 days ago

Also this:
https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-robert-f-kennedy-jr-whose-dangerous-lies-fueled-measles-outbreak-in-samoa-and-caused-preventable-deaths-unqualified-to-lead-hhs

chrisgoss.bsky.social•37 days ago

📌

facepl8.bsky.social•37 days ago

That's my state, and we definitely don't want him near us

3j1963.bsky.social•38 days ago

Never forget that RFK Jr is of an age when he would have been vaccinated. He makes his unhinged pronouncements from behind the protection his parents provided to him as a child.

macsico.carsten-muerau.de•37 days ago

If he gets the job, then Secretary of Health maybe should renamed by just exchanging a few letters: Secretary of Death

salongroupnyc.bsky.social•38 days ago

Maybe this guy was born with that brain worm?

torrleonard.bsky.social•36 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/torrleonard.bsky.social/post/3lfh3qwkpos2y

maryangelaperna.bsky.social•38 days ago

You know what blows my mind? RFK Jr was a cohost on an Air America show for years. It was a liberal station that began in 2004. Maddow started there. Al Franken had a show on the station.

I would love to hear what folks on that station thought of him back then

adjectivalnoun.bsky.social•37 days ago

You may be interested in this from an old friend of RFK Jr
https://bsky.app/profile/gregpalast.bsky.social/post/3l2g33oisw22t

kdrsisu.bsky.social•37 days ago

Being a genuine disruptor is the coup de grace in science, but for every true disruptor that upsets the paradigm with solid thought- like Einstein when he came along and overturned the world of physics- there are hundreds of populists and frauds that convince enough people that they know the truth.

kfunk937.bsky.social•34 days ago

A frequent defence of Kennedy's book is "but there are so many citations"

but they are, in aggregate, all shit

kfunk937.bsky.social•34 days ago

Quantity over quality.

jag032507.bsky.social•38 days ago

He’s a misinformed, gullible, narcissistic ghoul.

lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social•38 days ago

It makes him feel like he’s smarter than the scientists & doctors who went to medical school & studied these things. That’s what the arrogance & dismissiveness & refusal to believe anything that contradicts what he chooses to believe. It’s amazing his drug rehab took.

lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social•38 days ago

Someone with that kind of ego & narcissism who has convinced themself they’re so much smarter than anyone else usually would have a difficult time getting clean & sober. But it might be he just switched his drug of choice from heroin to sex & steroids.

lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social•38 days ago

He also talks about legalizing psychedelic mushrooms; I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility he uses them & other drugs as a replacement for heroin.

debsdemocracytour.bsky.social•38 days ago

He is sick AF. Maybe he should have gotten his PhD like the real researchers.

kate411.bsky.social•38 days ago

Mengele Kennedy. Never again.

obsoletevernacular.bsky.social•35 days ago

I mean, this happened with the polio vaccine, and Jonah Salk hated having an RCT knowing children would die needlessly.

crusadermdd.bsky.social•38 days ago

It seems clear that he does not feel that he bears some responsibility for the deaths of those children. Imagine that lack of awareness in the head of HHS. Call your Senators with your views on his nomination now.

tsudhonimh.bsky.social•37 days ago

I remember Edwin Tamasese: He was visiting the families with sick children with these "cures", and actively discouraging them from taking the child to the hospital.

justme42.bsky.social•38 days ago

"5 doctors and SCIENTISTS". And I always thought science was about trying to understand reality...

vastin.bsky.social•37 days ago

Not sure why we are wasting so much ink to try to prove that an obvious quack is a quack. No one who supports him will ever read or care about it, because they are ignorant and only care about tribal affiliation.

The rest is irrelevant.

nancyannn.bsky.social•38 days ago

And those deaths proved nothing to him. He’s still an antivaxxer. These monsters don’t actually want to be proven wrong. They want to be proven right and will disgard any evidence that disproves their theories.

rgh1205.bsky.social•38 days ago

Just the man to save the nation from the curse of vaccines. Darwin is rolling in his grave, laughing.

RFK jr should be in jail for his role in this Samoan tragedy.

ninjanik.bsky.social•38 days ago

The vitamins brought him money 💰 🤑. Jr knows how to collect that bag 💼 🤑 🤑 🤮

chickenlady.bsky.social•38 days ago

He has indirectly killed many humans

maggiemck.bsky.social•38 days ago

Horrific

claudiayyj.bsky.social•38 days ago

So JFK Jr is to Goebbels as Musk is to Hitler

jlms-qkw.bsky.social•33 days ago

RFKjr belongs in jail.

tyyoung617.bsky.social•37 days ago

We need to remember that even though we're heading into a really chaotic period, once everything settles down, we should definitely consider filing lawsuits against these individuals. Sure, the orange blob might seem untouchable, but the rest of these folks are fair game.

jehms.bsky.social•38 days ago

We have a new doctor Mengele here.

swedenord.bsky.social•37 days ago

Me thinks the pious Christian’s crotchless panties are showing! And his kid is watching it on his phone.

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