Kennedy’s Coalition of Quacks Wants to Feed America a Diet of Lies

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Frederick Foresight, Nov 16, 2024.

  1. gwb-trading

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    Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, tries to claim it is merely "formatting issues" that will be fixed. Nazi Barbie should understand that it is not mere "formatting issues" but using non-existent sources and making claims that sources & their authors don't back-up. However Trump administration officials are completely comfortable with lying directly with no remorse or self-reflection for the harm they are causing. If the sources are bunk then the entire document is junk. BTW -- it appears the entire thing was generated using AI.

    White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s MAHA report
    https://apnews.com/article/maha-report-errors-rfk-health-studies-f382af8552dbc1729329a13e58f1f3c4

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which decried America’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs.

    Kennedy’s wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not actually exist.

    Asked about the report’s problems, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report will be updated.

    “I understand there was some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed and the report will be updated.” Leavitt told reporters during her briefing. “But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government.

    Kennedy has repeatedly said he would bring “radical transparency” and “gold-standard” science to the public health agencies. But the secretary refused to release details about who authored the 72-page report, which calls for increased scrutiny of the childhood vaccine schedule and describes the nation’s children as overmedicated and undernourished.

    Leavitt said that the White House has “complete confidence” in Kennedy.

    “Minor citation and formatting errors have been corrected,” HHS Spokesman Andrew Nixon said in an emailed statement. He described the report as a “historic and transformative assessment by the federal government to understand the chronic disease epidemic afflicting our nation’s children.”

    NOTUS reported on Thursday morning that seven of the more than 500 studies cited in the report did not appear to have ever been published. An author of one study confirmed that while she conducted research on the topics of anxiety in children, she never authored the report listed. Some studies were also misinterpreted in the MAHA report. The problematic citations were on topics around children’s screen time, medication use and anxiety.

    Kennedy’s MAHA report had already been stoking concerns among Trump loyalists, including farmers who criticized how the report characterized the chemicals sprayed on U.S. crops.

    The report is supposed to be used to develop policy recommendations that will be released later this year. The White House has requested a $500 million boost in funding from Congress for Kennedy’s MAHA initiative.
     
    #211     May 29, 2025
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    #212     May 30, 2025
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  3. Tuxan

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    I was chatting to a friend who was an ICU doctor during Covid. I've known her just a couple of years, not during the pandemic. She has an idea to publicly shame Kennedy with a major protest. Well I threw a quick prompt at CGPT and it came back with all of this, most details I didn't enter at all, just to include that he is known for people close to him dying, from his negative influence.

    Seems it wants to do a mass symbolic seance to speak to the dead in Washington. It omitted family he got taking drugs but Impressed and a little worried at the creative leap for a LLM.

    "The Séance for the Silenced

    A Public Invocation of Those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Left Behind

    We gather not to summon ghosts but to speak with them.
    To call forward the voices of the silenced:

    The millions denied truth and protection during the pandemic.

    The women crushed by coercion and quietly erased.


    In 2012, Mary Richardson Kennedy died by suicide after being isolated, impoverished, and publicly discarded by a man who now leads national health policy.

    She was denied her court-ordered support.
    She was denied her dignity.
    She was denied a future.

    Today, RFK Jr. does the same to millions—denying access to vaccines, to truth, to public health itself.

    This is not just hypocrisy. It’s a pattern.
    When RFK Jr. cannot control a body—he abandons it.
    When he cannot silence dissent—he poisons the dialogue.
    He claims to speak for freedom, but leaves only funerals.

    We call on the dead not because we believe in ghosts—but because the living have forgotten.

    This is their séance. This is their reckoning.
    And we are the medium.

    "
     
    Last edited: May 30, 2025
    #213     May 30, 2025
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    RFK Jr's MAHA team issue a revised report hoping to correct the errors and misinterpretations found in the first report. Naturally, the 'correction' has new errors and misinterpretations.

    RFK Jr’s team adds new errors to its ‘MAHA’ report, making the fiasco worse
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-blog-rfk-jr-team-124257294.html
     
    #214     Jun 2, 2025
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    #215     Jun 3, 2025
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    ‘American children are highly medicated’: RFK Jr’s botched health report now cites studies that don’t even cover children
    https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/a...-cites-studies-that-dont-even-cover-children/
     
    #216     Jun 3, 2025
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    With Trump appointees it is all about the healthcare grift.

    'Snake oil salesmen': Analyst says MAGA 'quacks' and 'hucksters' are prospering under Trump
    https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-rfk-quack/

    It’s an age for con men, says Intelligencer columnist Sarah Jones.

    Quackery is at least as old as the United States, but today’s quacks “have learned to manipulate regulatory loopholes to sell fake cures to the masses,” she says.

    Jones points out that a Joe Rogan podcast fan may hear commercials for “Alpha Brain,” created by a “Rogan friend” who got sued last year for deceptive advertising.

    Jones said snake oil salesmen now proliferate in U.S. government.

    “Before Mike Huckabee became our ambassador to Israel, he advertised Relaxium, an herbal supplement whose makers falsely pledged it would help a restless nation sleep,” Jones writes. “Other supplement-makers see a champion in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who not only opposes vaccines but has said the Food and Drug Administration should free the nation from the ‘aggressive suppression’ of dubious vitamins and herbal substances.”

    She noted Kennedy even hired David Geier to conduct federal studies into “the debunked link between autism and vaccines, though authorities once punished Geier for experimenting on autistic children in a basement laboratory.”

    But Kennedy “and his ilk” aren’t limiting themselves to the mere pseudoscience promotion. They’re undermining scientific research at the same time, Jones said.

    “Funding cuts and layoffs are weakening major institutions like the National Institutes of Health and the FDA, which were established to monitor our food supply and medicines for safety. The administration has canceled research grants to universities, slowing the pace of innovation. Scientists searching for cures and treatments for Alzheimer’s, various cancers, and genetic diseases say their work is in jeopardy,” she said.

    And this is delivering results, she added. In 2019, the Pew Research Center found 86 percent of Americans felt confident in the work of the country’s scientists. That figure declined during the pandemic, and remains lower than its pre-COVID levels. Behind those numbers are hucksters who prospered during the pandemic “thanks in part to Donald Trump himself.”

    At the height of a pandemic, Jones said Trump told people to inject disinfectant to fight the virus. Grifters hawked horse dewormer ivermectin and an anti-malarial drug called hydroxychloroquine, which killed at least one Trump supporter after the president touted it at a press conference.

    And while parents and some doctors are attempting to treat measles with cod-liver oil, in spite of the evidence against it, Jones said Trump nominated Kennedy ally Casey Means to be surgeon general, though Means promotes a byzantine supplement regime that he claims can reverse symptoms of Alzheimer’s. The New York Times reports one Illinois couple spent $25,000 treating Alzheimer’s the Bredesen way before figuring out it doesn’t work.

    Jones said Trump’s pseudoscience may outlast him if lawmakers refuse to take on what she calls “a predator’s market” of exploitation.

    “Without robust public institutions and a health-care system that prioritizes care over profit, mistrust will fester. Americans will lead sicker and shorter lives, and the next pandemic may be even deadlier than COVID,” Jones said.

    Parents will blow money on quack treatments “or sacrifice their children to scam artists,” she said.

    “Fighting Trump means fighting MAHA and, with it, the quack and the huckster. Rebuilding the federal government and closing regulatory loopholes will cost nostrum-makers some cash, but it’s the only way to make America healthy at last,” she said.

    Read the full Intelligencer report at this link.
     
    #217     Jun 5, 2025
  8. gwb-trading

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    Isn't it strange how all the criticisms that Trump's new Surgeon General pick leveled against establishment medical, health, and food systems always seemed to be designed to sell other products that put money in her own pocket? So strange.

    How Trump’s pick for surgeon general uses her big online following to make money
    https://apnews.com/article/surgeon-...te-conflicts-8d8cb29defa07028dbd97fc24a72c474
     
    #218     Jun 7, 2025
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