MAHA is also amazing!
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Mongoose
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We have a DOGE Thread, but we are also going to need a MAHA thread for all the great things RFK jr is going to do, like banning pharma advertisements on tv. TV is all but dead anyway, but that ban could extend to youtube etc so they can no longer dictate content and information.
Mongoose
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Those that want fraud and abuse in government are also going to complain that they want unhealthy and sick children.
View: https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1890170457456013562
View: https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1890170457456013562
Red
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One more reason why our nation is a laughing stock worldwide.
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“The title tells it all,” Cassidy said of the study, which was published in the journal Vaccine by researchers in Australia. “Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies.”
“You show me those scientific studies, and you and I can meet about it,” Kennedy said. “There are other studies as well, and I’d love to show those to you. There’s a study that came out last week of 47,000 9-year-olds in the Medicaid system in Florida — I think a Louisiana scientist called Mawson — that shows the opposite. There are other studies out there. I just want to follow the science.”
Contrary to Kennedy’s claim that “there are other studies out there,” the literature on vaccines and autism is not mixed, unlike many other scientific topics. As David Mandell, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, previously told us, “Every single rigorous study we have” shows “no association” between autism and vaccination.
The specific paper Kennedy cited — which claims to have found that “[v]accinated children were significantly more likely than the unvaccinated to have been diagnosed” with autism and a variety of other neurodevelopmental disorders — is not rigorous.
“I have read this paper carefully, and it has so many severe methodological issues, it clearly should not have passed any legitimate peer review,” Jeffrey S. Morris, director of the division of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, told us.
The paper was published on Jan. 23 in Science, Public Health Policy and the Law, an outlet that claims to be a peer-reviewed journal, but as we have noted before, is not available on PubMed Central, the National Institutes of Health’s database of biomedical research, nor indexed on MEDLINE, which requires some evaluation of journal quality. The editor-in-chief and other board members, including the section editor for the paper, are well-known spreaders of vaccine misinformation.
The two authors, including lead author Anthony Mawson, are affiliated with Chalfont Research Institute in Mississippi, which does not have a website and appears to use a residential home as a mailing address, based on IRS records. Both authors have previously published work on vaccines that has been retracted. The paper was funded by the National Vaccine Information Center, an anti-vaccine group.
RFK Jr. Cites Flawed Paper Claiming Link Between Vaccines and Autism in HHS Confirmation Hearing - FactCheck.org
In his second day of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, refused to say that vaccines do not cause autism -- despite a large body of evidence showing there is no link. He also pointed to a flawed paper...
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Flawed Paper
Near the end of the more than three-hour hearing, Cassidy confronted Kennedy with a 2014 meta analysis, reminding him of his promise that he would say vaccines do not cause autism if shown the data.“The title tells it all,” Cassidy said of the study, which was published in the journal Vaccine by researchers in Australia. “Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies.”
“You show me those scientific studies, and you and I can meet about it,” Kennedy said. “There are other studies as well, and I’d love to show those to you. There’s a study that came out last week of 47,000 9-year-olds in the Medicaid system in Florida — I think a Louisiana scientist called Mawson — that shows the opposite. There are other studies out there. I just want to follow the science.”
Contrary to Kennedy’s claim that “there are other studies out there,” the literature on vaccines and autism is not mixed, unlike many other scientific topics. As David Mandell, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, previously told us, “Every single rigorous study we have” shows “no association” between autism and vaccination.
The specific paper Kennedy cited — which claims to have found that “[v]accinated children were significantly more likely than the unvaccinated to have been diagnosed” with autism and a variety of other neurodevelopmental disorders — is not rigorous.
“I have read this paper carefully, and it has so many severe methodological issues, it clearly should not have passed any legitimate peer review,” Jeffrey S. Morris, director of the division of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, told us.
The paper was published on Jan. 23 in Science, Public Health Policy and the Law, an outlet that claims to be a peer-reviewed journal, but as we have noted before, is not available on PubMed Central, the National Institutes of Health’s database of biomedical research, nor indexed on MEDLINE, which requires some evaluation of journal quality. The editor-in-chief and other board members, including the section editor for the paper, are well-known spreaders of vaccine misinformation.
The two authors, including lead author Anthony Mawson, are affiliated with Chalfont Research Institute in Mississippi, which does not have a website and appears to use a residential home as a mailing address, based on IRS records. Both authors have previously published work on vaccines that has been retracted. The paper was funded by the National Vaccine Information Center, an anti-vaccine group.
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PJF
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I appreciate the passion that RFK shows for improving our obesity epidemic, even if I don't agree with most of what I've seen as his proposals to address it. I hope, as an optimist, that his ideas can spark real conversations that lead to actual solutions.