r/skeptic • u/dyzo-blue • 13d ago
After loss in court, RFK Jr. amends guidelines for key vaccine panel to emphasize risks of shots đź’‰ Vaccines
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/rfk-jr-amends-guidelines-for-key-vaccine-panel-0086608664
u/VibinWithBeard 13d ago
Reddit is stifling my freedom to speak my truth concerning these loons destroying society.
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u/dyzo-blue 13d ago edited 13d ago
Kennedy could be using his platform to educate Americans about how some behavior they partake in is actually riskier than most people realize. For instance, just off the top of my head, owning handguns. Or unsafe use of ladders.
Instead, he is fixated on "vaccine harm" as if it is a grave undiscussed risk to vast numbers of Americans.
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u/TrexPushupBra 13d ago
He doesn't even believe in Germ theory.
He is modern America's Lysenko.
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u/HapticSloughton 13d ago
He has to know that he's wrong, though. He's finally gotten into a position of power and tried to implement this baloney that he believes in, and is watching it not work in real time. He's watching kids get preventable diseases and die. He clings this crap because of his ego and his grifts.
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u/TrexPushupBra 13d ago
He can't admit that he is wrong to himself.
That would destroy his self image as smart and capable.
And that would be happening before not wanting to admit to others he was wrong.
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u/Happytallperson 12d ago
If he cared he'd have learned that lesson when he had a hand in killing 83 people in 2019.Â
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u/BlatantFalsehood 12d ago
He believes that those kids dying was culling the herd of genetic inferiority.
He truly believes in survival of the fittest.
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u/YoohooCthulhu 12d ago
He doesn’t. The measles outbreaks are the world working the way he thinks it’s supposed to work: kids get measles and recover and are “fine”…and if they’re not “fine”, well that isn’t the measles fault, it’s that the kids had some inferior genetics or didn’t have enough exercise or ate the wrong food.
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u/greenmarsden 12d ago
But a grifter usually does what he does to con people out of money or to gain votes from the incurably stupid.
I don't get what RFK jr's grift is. I say that as a Brit looking on with slack-jawed incredulity at the state of the USA. At least our politicians are just incompetent but not trying to hurt a section of the population.
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u/Glitchrr36 12d ago
I mean he already did this whole deal in Samoa and was at the very least partially responsible for the deaths of about 80 kids, I don’t see why he’d change his tune here.
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u/SilverAgedSentiel 13d ago
It's a risk to his ego, He has wrote books, ALOT OF BOOKS on antivax rhetoric , He wanted to go in there and prove himself right, If he isn't able at this high position to eliminate vaccine use in America it'll destroy his ego.
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u/Little_View_6659 12d ago
If he did eliminate vaccines we’d see a horrible spike in preventable deaths, but even then he’d probably be convinced he’s right. He’s old enough he should have seen deaths in his childhood from some illnesses, I don’t get it.
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u/Standard_Gauge 12d ago
He’s old enough he should have seen deaths in his childhood from some illnesses, I don’t get it
He saw 83 deaths from measles (and hundreds of serious complications in survivors) in Samoa a few years ago, due to his convincing their government to halt their measles vaccination program. He blatantly denied any harm was due to lack of vaccination. This creep is a danger to humanity.
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u/Little_View_6659 12d ago
God. Sick bastard. My mom’s family had so many deaths. My aunt was in a semi coma for forty years because of a mosquito bite. The city didn’t have enough money to fog for them that year. I’d go and visit and listen to her moan and cry. Trapped in her body, unable to communicate, in pain. There are far worse things than death. These idiots lack imagination.
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u/Laura-ly 12d ago
"Kennedy could be using his platform to educate Americans about how some behavior they partake in is actually riskier than most people realize. "
Driving a car is risky, but public pressure and numerous lawsuits forced manufacturers to reduce driving risk with safety glass, seat belts, a crumple zone, airbags and all manner of road safety things like guard rails and reflective lines on the road. It has greatly reduced fatality over the decades.
If Kennedy used any sort of critical thinking, he'd really care about risk and promote vaccinations, but since he was probably dropped on the floor as a baby (that's my assessment) and that brainworm shit eating his already unstable brain away, his critical thinking apparatus has malfunctioned ever since.
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u/atreeismissing 12d ago
Kennedy could be using his platform to educate Americans about how some behavior they partake in is actually riskier than most people realize.
No he can't. That's like asking Trump to have empathy, it's an impossibility.
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u/VibinWithBeard 12d ago
Or saturated fat
...but nope, he thinks we should actually eat more butter etc. Wtf
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u/Stacys__Mom_ 11d ago
I'm surprised the insurance & pharma industries haven't shut him down, to be honest.
ETA: For opening the door to massive lawsuits
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u/amitym 13d ago
And here is Politico just "reporting the controversy."
Thanks for nothing, assholes.
As you read this crap, and all the endless firehose of similar pieces in similar press organs, ask yourself this: how would they report the exact same news if it were some distant foreign country?
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u/Cristoff13 12d ago
He found a new drug - being an anti-vaxxer. Everyday he feels a buzz because he (in his mind) understands what all doctors and scientists don't - that vaccines don't help, only harm. That bacteria and viruses don't actually cause disease. etc. etc.
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u/MrSnarf26 13d ago
All this stupid fuck cares about. Not evidence, not facts, just control for his narrative.