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.
www.factcheck.org
“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.
PJF
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The RFK thread is too negative so I am going to post the good news on this one.
View: https://x.com/Whiplash437/status/1890624663950127444?t=dW1DH8kaM1oe7F2wl5XDtw&s=19
View: https://x.com/Whiplash437/status/1890624663950127444?t=dW1DH8kaM1oe7F2wl5XDtw&s=19
He's going to lead to a ton more deaths.
I guess I hope that his bad ideas get shutdown quickly and his less bad ideas spark the kind of good changes needed.
I'm naive and overly optimistic, but something seriously needs to change.
Mentioning gym memberships and organic foods to combat the obesity epidemic are bad ideas. But maybe that leads to improving access to fruits and vegetables for low income families or reemphasizing physical education in schools.
One of the ways the government could improve health is warning levels for calories, sugar and saturated fat on ingredient labels. I know this has been proposed before, but never went anywhere. This seems like something that could be pushed forward.
Red
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Not so wonderful component of MAHA. How is this not much closer to MASA: Make America Stupid Again?? Why cripple biomedical research? Stupid is as stupid does.
www.theguardian.com
On 7 February, the administration implemented a policy that would cut NIH funding to research institutions by over two-thirds. A federal judge has since blocked the cuts – for now.
‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis
Biomedical scientists depend on the NIH to fund their employment. Many are expected to cover a large proportion of their own salaries with NIH grants. Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.
“For the last 50 to 75 years, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine, at some point, were seeded by NIH funding. And when we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. There is this long term support,” said John Tuthill, who runs a neuroscience lab at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tuthill was scheduled to give a seminar to the NIH on 3 February, and had already travelled to Washington DC when he was informed the talk was cancelled due to a Trump administration directive banning communication between federal health agencies and the public. The ban was supposed to be lifted on 1 February. It wasn’t.
“This is the pain that the people are feeling within NIH trickling outside to affect the rest of us,” he said.
Tuthill is now re-evaluating plans, as cuts threaten the entirety of his specialized field. His parents were planning to move to Seattle to be closer to their granddaughter. Now, they are not sure it makes sense. Tuthill is considering jobs abroad.
“If science in the US collapses, it would be very hard for people to leave the country and get work, because a significant fraction of the top scientists in the world are here, and there’s not a lot of room for the rest of the world to absorb that,” he said.
www.thebulwark.com
“One might ask, ‘Why are they trying to destroy the science training pipeline?’” that professor said. “To what end?”
Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US
President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research
www.theguardian.com
On 7 February, the administration implemented a policy that would cut NIH funding to research institutions by over two-thirds. A federal judge has since blocked the cuts – for now.
‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis
Biomedical scientists depend on the NIH to fund their employment. Many are expected to cover a large proportion of their own salaries with NIH grants. Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.
“For the last 50 to 75 years, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine, at some point, were seeded by NIH funding. And when we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. There is this long term support,” said John Tuthill, who runs a neuroscience lab at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tuthill was scheduled to give a seminar to the NIH on 3 February, and had already travelled to Washington DC when he was informed the talk was cancelled due to a Trump administration directive banning communication between federal health agencies and the public. The ban was supposed to be lifted on 1 February. It wasn’t.
“This is the pain that the people are feeling within NIH trickling outside to affect the rest of us,” he said.
Tuthill is now re-evaluating plans, as cuts threaten the entirety of his specialized field. His parents were planning to move to Seattle to be closer to their granddaughter. Now, they are not sure it makes sense. Tuthill is considering jobs abroad.
“If science in the US collapses, it would be very hard for people to leave the country and get work, because a significant fraction of the top scientists in the world are here, and there’s not a lot of room for the rest of the world to absorb that,” he said.
The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun
It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.
www.thebulwark.com
“One might ask, ‘Why are they trying to destroy the science training pipeline?’” that professor said. “To what end?”
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Europe has this. I always check when I shop. It's awesome.