Thank you for this excellent and deeply troubling presentation. You covered an extraordinary amount of ground, but I want to focus briefly on one point that deserves sharper scrutiny.
Senator Cassidy’s response rings hollow. Expressing concern after helping install RFK Jr. is not leadership. It is milquetoast lip service offered too little and far too late. When the risks were clear and the warnings explicit, silence and acquiescence prevailed. Now that the damage is underway, mild reproach does not constitute accountability.
This is not a matter of tone or hindsight. It is a matter of responsibility. When someone helps enable an outcome and then offers belated criticism once the consequences become visible, that is not principled restraint. It is political cowardice.
Cassidy chose willful ignorance when he chose to believe Worm Brain. No one should be surprised at all at what Worm Brain did. As a physician, I wrote the AMA requesting that Cassidy be sanctioned.
I've been a fan of your substack for some time now, but I respectfully disagree with the stance expressed in this video that favors "vaccine schedule expansion" above all else without regards to the cumulative risks of such schedule increases. Moreover, you seem callous to the fact that the such cumulative risks have never been studied.
We must be diligent as scientists and remember the "absences of evidence is not evidence." Medicine is prone to a "spotlight effect" (especially with Big Pharma driving research dollars) and there are huge gaps in the known vaccine safety literature.
Most importantly, the panel here is completely wrong on the "notion of trust." The trust problems began long before Trump and RFK Jr. took office, but were on full display during the COVID pandemic in which medical bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci asserted COVID pandemic measures foremost without regards to the harms to the people.
Such problems continued with the rollout of the COVID vaccines and the failure to acknowledge vaccine injury while doubling down "questioning vaccines is misinformation" rhetoric."
The problem of trust is this – medical culture is broken. It has been too arrogant, too self-serving in its rhetoric, and has engaged in too much gaslighting.
We need a new tack to solve the issue here – medical institutions *must embrace* the vaccine safety problem.
They must embrace it in a way that goes above and beyond what RFK Jr. is doing right now in HHS. The people trusted the medical community to provide the highest levels of vaccine safety, but sadly this historically has not happened and outsiders had to step in to take the reins.
It's time for a new approach to vaccines and vaccine safety. The old approach has failed.
Thank you for this excellent and deeply troubling presentation. You covered an extraordinary amount of ground, but I want to focus briefly on one point that deserves sharper scrutiny.
Senator Cassidy’s response rings hollow. Expressing concern after helping install RFK Jr. is not leadership. It is milquetoast lip service offered too little and far too late. When the risks were clear and the warnings explicit, silence and acquiescence prevailed. Now that the damage is underway, mild reproach does not constitute accountability.
This is not a matter of tone or hindsight. It is a matter of responsibility. When someone helps enable an outcome and then offers belated criticism once the consequences become visible, that is not principled restraint. It is political cowardice.
Cassidy chose willful ignorance when he chose to believe Worm Brain. No one should be surprised at all at what Worm Brain did. As a physician, I wrote the AMA requesting that Cassidy be sanctioned.
I've been a fan of your substack for some time now, but I respectfully disagree with the stance expressed in this video that favors "vaccine schedule expansion" above all else without regards to the cumulative risks of such schedule increases. Moreover, you seem callous to the fact that the such cumulative risks have never been studied.
We must be diligent as scientists and remember the "absences of evidence is not evidence." Medicine is prone to a "spotlight effect" (especially with Big Pharma driving research dollars) and there are huge gaps in the known vaccine safety literature.
Most importantly, the panel here is completely wrong on the "notion of trust." The trust problems began long before Trump and RFK Jr. took office, but were on full display during the COVID pandemic in which medical bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci asserted COVID pandemic measures foremost without regards to the harms to the people.
Such problems continued with the rollout of the COVID vaccines and the failure to acknowledge vaccine injury while doubling down "questioning vaccines is misinformation" rhetoric."
The problem of trust is this – medical culture is broken. It has been too arrogant, too self-serving in its rhetoric, and has engaged in too much gaslighting.
We need a new tack to solve the issue here – medical institutions *must embrace* the vaccine safety problem.
They must embrace it in a way that goes above and beyond what RFK Jr. is doing right now in HHS. The people trusted the medical community to provide the highest levels of vaccine safety, but sadly this historically has not happened and outsiders had to step in to take the reins.
It's time for a new approach to vaccines and vaccine safety. The old approach has failed.