Organizations including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have been told their experts are being removed from the CDC's Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. An email informing them said they are "special interest groups and therefore are expected to have a 'bias' based on their constituency and/or population that they represent." Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
#rfk
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-atheists-maha-war-on-science.html
Christian Ott, a former Caltech professor, writes about his 2017 “cancellation.” After an investigation characterized by “postmodernist intersectional social theory,” Caltech found that he had violated Title IX and university policies by harassing grad students. Then BuzzFeed News came calling, as it would later do for Krauss. The site’s reporting “was sensationalized, superficial, and biased towards the perceived victims,” Ott complains, and it ruined him. What did BuzzFeed actually report? Ott never fully explains, but Google still exists. Ott, it turns out, had fallen in love with one of his grad students, and then fired her, and he complained obsessively about the woman to a different female student. Caltech knew this because it had Ott’s messages along with his Tumblr account, where he had published 86 poems about the student he loved. Ott does not mention his poetry, but at the end of his chapter, he does thank his wife for her support.
Intelligencer · How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science
In case you missed it, this is Jim O'Neill, RFK Jr's #2 at the Department of Health and Human Services, at DEF CON 33 on August 8, 2025.
He gave remarks before the AI Cyber Challenge awards ceremony, which awarded $8.5M to the winning teams. One of his remarks: he wants to...
"Make the US healthcare system great again."
O'Neill is an investor, has no medical background and is closely associated with Peter Thiel. Platforming, in action.
Mr. Kennedy has been a prominent voice raising doubts about Covid vaccinations, as well as many routine immunizations. He has made provocative statements — including calling the Covid vaccine the “deadliest” ever made — that directly contradict evidence that has shown the shot to be overwhelmingly effective.
Critics of Mr. Kennedy argued that he also helped fuel the animosity directed at the C.D.C. Federal officials have blamed the agency for botching the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.
The New York Times · Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say
Inside the C.D.C., the shooting was viewed as part of a pattern in which health workers have been targets of political, verbal and physical assaults on them and their workplaces.
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Many Americans, and even some top federal health officials in the Trump administration, have blamed the C.D.C. for lockdowns, school closings and vaccine mandates, even when some of those decisions were made by state and local governments, or businesses.
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Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption” and a fascist enterprise. He has accused the agency’s scientists of ignoring vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse. He has also disparaged the Covid-19 vaccine, calling it the “deadliest” vaccine ever made.
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“We’re mad this has happened,” Dr. Debra Houry, the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer, said in a large group call Saturday morning with Susan Monarez, the agency’s newly confirmed director, who tried to reassure them. Another employee on the call, a recording of which was obtained by The New York Times, asked Dr. Monarez: “Are you able to speak to the misinformation, the disinformation that caused this issue? And what your plan forward is to ensure this doesn’t happen again?”
The New York Times · C.D.C. Workers Say Shooting Manifests Worst Fears About Anger Among Public
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@grammasaurus You can write or call your Senators and Congressperson.
Here's a message I sent mine - "RFK Jr. has been making decisions that create threats to the health of all - threats to public health.
Most of them have to do with vaccines.
He's a quack, to use the vernacular.
He's got to go.
Please use whatever tools are available to you when you have the opportunity to build pressure
that will force him out of our government.
#RFK #RFKJR
To all the Trump voters... this is 100% your fault.
Hope you've got phenomenal health insurance.
#trump #rfk #maga
From: @TonyStark
https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/114983556836397072
Progressive CafeTony, Pretty Much (@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social)Congratulations to everyone who foisted this despicable quack on the country.
Chronically ill? In Kennedy’s view, it might be your own fault |
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/health/kennedy-chronic-illness-kff-health-news
Dear journalists, please stop describing RFK as a "vaccine sceptic".
There is nothing wrong with being sceptical, but RFK is not a vaccine sceptic, he is an anti-vaxxer.
Huge difference.
See also: "climate sceptic"
BBC NewsRFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the USSince taking office, the vaccine sceptic has made a number of changes to how vaccines are regulated.
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I’m livid about RFK’s decision to stop funding mRNA research, but I can’t find an email address for him. HHS’s website leads you to believe you can contact their personnel, but when you click on something you discover it’s not what you want. “radical transparency”—HA!
Anyone have tips for how to get a message to him? I refuse to use FB, X, or donnie’s private social media platform to communicate with folks in government.
This #RFK thing is worse than I understood:
All hands on deck it would take 4 years to distribute a vaccine using traditional methods.
With MRNA vaccines worldwide distribution could under good case scenario be fully distributed in a year.
Either way funding is cut!!
youtu.be/faiUP438_LQ?...
Federal mRNA funding cut is 'm...
Public Health experts are 'dismayed' by #RFK, Jr (who has no medical qualifications) ending nearly $500 million funding for mRNA vaccine research. mRNA was the technology used to prevent #Covid infection, among other viral infections. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493544/rfk-defunding-mrna-vaccine-research
There must soon surely be an electoral day of reckoning for the current US administration. The anti-intellectual, pseudo-scientific, take-us-back-to-the-dark-ages philosophy which appears to permeate its ranks is breathtaking. It is also all very upsetting to watch from afar. It will not serve the country well, and it will take decades to recover the ground lost.... 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/rfk-jr-hhs-mrna-vaccine-research #RFK #research #science #PublicHealth #HealthCare #vaccines #vaccination #mRNA
The Guardian · RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
A eugenicist, with a brain worm who recently let two lampreys bite his arm, is head of HHS. Given your recent post: @TonyStark
#RFK
#USPol
While Trump is setting up concentration camps I thought that at least we didn't have gas chambers yet. RFK, Jr., seems to have found a substitute that could work just as well.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/mrna-vaccine-development-canceled-by-kennedy-hhs/
#HHS #Vaccines #RFK,Jr. #Healthcare
STAT · Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine researchVaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy has announced the Department of Health and Human Services will pull $500 million of funding for 22 vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology. Kennedy said in a statement that he wants the department to move away from mRNA vaccines and start "investing in better solutions," without elaborating on what those solutions might be. Here's more from @AxiosNews.
Axios · Trump admin pulls funding for new mRNA vaccines
Getting my grandmother to drink #water is like PULLING TEETH! I don't know why #boomers are so hydration adverse. Seriously. If you don't want to look like a wrinkled saggy ballsack like #RFK ....DRINK WATER! Literally..every #dermatologist will ask you "how much water do you drink" right off the bat (Disappointed in Grok's ability to render RFK as a ball sack). HYDRATE!!!!
Anyone else out there not give a flyin' f*@! about Sydney Sweeney? Stop covering it nonstop and talk about, for example, #RFK's #eugenics policies, #StephenMiller's #concentrationcamps, and #Trump's #dementia.