Pseudoscience eugenics at the FDA - Profiteering from the Texas measles outbreak, 17 May 2025
Anti-vax bullshit is the same old hat.
Pseudoscience eugenics conspiracy theory is what's driving the push to keep vaccines from American children.
I really hope people voice support and interest in vaccines for children specifically to elected representatives and to the FDA VRBPAC in public comment. People have been pushing for ages now to age-restrict the vaccines to the very very elderly, some ridiculous people with stupid arguments. And there have been supposedly pro-vax people saying crap like this for years that seems to nod at the idea that children ought to be put through some kind of ringer for natural herd immunity. This is eugenics, which is an ideology, and it's pseudoscience, not science.
I was screaming out about this a couple of years ago, and now we have reached fruition in the current RFKJr iteration of public health. And I tried to explain more than a couple of years ago the horrible truth about the eugenics belief system behind the anti-vax push and the push against public health interventions and disease prevention in general.
The Economy demands full participation, herd debt paid on an altar of lies “Public health” is operating, but with the wrong information and the wrong solutions to solve the wrong problems, because those calling the shots have the wrong goals. Chloe Humbert Dec 23, 2022 They are NOT blaming their own covid precautions (that they didn’t do) for ruining their children’s immune systems. They are blaming OTHER people’s covid precautions for ruining herd immunity for their children. And it seems that’s why they want everyone else to unmask and get infected - as if that’d be a good thing when it’s obviously not doing good for the people, especially not the ones winding up in hospital or six feet under. But somehow they want more spread. Why? (...) People have been told to blame the infections in their kids on other people taking precautions. And this is why they are okay with the reversal of mitigations, and in some cases are demanding it. What “public health measures” will they demand next to reverse other people taking precautions if they think this way? That if those cautious people would’ve just “gotten it over with” (and maybe died) we’d be “back to normal” by now somehow because they now believe the viruses “must have their due” or something like that. This is evidenced by their remarks about how it’s “just delaying the inevitable” (such as death, yes) - and their obsession with criticizing people who choose to take precautions - while at the same time blathering on about “personal risk calculations” and wanting “respect for all choices”3 - as if anyone actually wants all bad choices in play all the time.
It's not too late to go on record and submit a comment if you haven't already, even if It's too late to sign up to speak at the meeting.
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Fox 5 Washington DC RFK Jr. takes grandkids swimming – in Rock Creek By Elissa Salamy Published May 12, 2025 1:45pm EDT "Swimming and wading are not allowed due to high bacteria levels," according to the National Park Service. "Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health. Please protect yourself and your pooches by staying on trails and out of the creek. All District waterways are subject to a swim ban - this means wading, too!" Dig deeper: Swimming is illegal in most of D.C.'s waterways thanks in part to bacterial contamination from D.C.'s aging sewer system.
RFKJr connected anti-vaxxers have been profiteering from the Texas measles outbreak.
WIRED - By David Gilbert Apr 17, 2025 11:35 AM Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI. Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are falsely claiming that the measles public health crisis in Texas is caused by a “bioweapon” targeting the Mennonite community. These activists are now trying to sell their followers a range of pseudo-scientific cures—some purportedly powered by artificial intelligence—that supposedly prevent customers from contracting measles. The claims were made in a webinar posted online last week and hosted by Mikki Willis, an infamous conspiracy filmmaker best known for his Plandemic series of pseudo-documentaries. These helped supercharge COVID-19 disinformation online and were, Kennedy has said, funded in part by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an anti-vaccine group Kennedy founded. Willis also created a video for Kennedy marking the announcement of his independent run for the presidency. “I’m not going to be careful by calling it a virus,” Willis said in the measles webinar.
That weirdo foolish bogus movie "Plandemic" just keeps coming up, and it's obvious MAGA just can't let go of health misinformation propaganda in opposition of public health, and the promotion of "alternative" products.
Anti-vax bullshit is the same old hat.
There was the same anti-vax propaganda spreading last century. It was overcome.
Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up. Chloe Humbert Aug 08, 2023 The polio campaign in the U.S. was successful because of a concerted effort to do a door to door campaign that started before the vaccine was even available. The idea that vaccination was just a default and that everyone easily got on board back then is nostalgic fantasy, it took some work by some people to make that happen. The propaganda resisting public health was as toxic and bonkers as what spreads perhaps just more prolifically today on social media. Back then some even blamed paralysis from polio on Americans who made inferior dietary choices. Sound familiar? Some people made sure we countered that and had a proper vaccine drive. There was indeed resistance to the polio elimination campaign, and it was overcome.
Well look at this.
Important Context Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Took Social Darwinist View Of Pandemic Wellness influencer Casey Means wrote that Americans needed to get healthy or risk death from COVID, calling the crisis “a Darwinian moment for America.” Walker Bragman May 08, 2025 Donald Trump’s new surgeon general pick called the COVID-19 pandemic “a Darwinian moment for America” in the spring of 2020, echoing long-discredited pseudoscience. Stanford-educated physician-turned-wellness influencer Casey Means, whose nomination for the surgeon post was announced on Wednesday, made the statement in an op-ed for The Hill titled, “Healthy Food: The Unexpected Medicine for COVID-19 and National Security.” The piece was published on April 21, 2020, at the height of the pandemic’s deadly first wave. In it, Means, who a year prior had co-founded a wellness company, argued that the nation could not “continue to shut down our economy and parts of our military, and overwhelm our health care system.” Instead, she proposed a strategy of promoting “healthy living” through personal behavior changes and cuts to agricultural subsidies for “dairy, sugar, wheat, corn and soybeans.”
And they're not even all on the same page.
Trump’s surgeon general pick exposes cracks in MAHA movement - by Joseph Choi, Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech and Nathaniel Weixel - 05/11/25 6:00 AM ET President Trump’s second choice for U.S. surgeon general has set off a wave of infighting within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Casey Means is a prominent health influencer and ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but she is seen as insufficiently skeptical of vaccines by some of his prominent supporters — and a “total crack pot” by others in Trump World.
Let that be a lesson to the insufferable people on the left who keep insisting we need to unite everyone under one umbrella in lockstep over everything, or the people who keep insisting we need to hand it to weirdos on the points about food – the same people who didn't want kids eating healthy when it was Michelle Obama's idea, by the way.
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“This is really going to hamper our goal of providing kids with fluoride. It’s ridiculous, and it takes away the choice of parents to allow their children to have better dental health. It doesn’t make scientific sense.” — Dr. Meg Lochary to NBC News on the FDA plans to take prescription fluoride drops and tablets off the market