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And resulted in all RCTs being stopped on that drug? And led you and your vaunted ID doctor to wrongly believe HCQ+ was ineffective? And led 500,000 Americans to die needlessly because the Great Fauchino said the same thing?

the FDA reviews the results for approval or denial. The 'Pro-HCQ' cadre never did prove its effectiveness in the manner they prescribed....but Pfizer did...dramatically...with Paxlovid.

As for the Lancet, they showed professionalism in publicly retracting a faulty study...it would be nice if you'd acknowledge that HCQ+ has never been proven effective as a treatment for SARS-CoV-2.

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you of RFK Jr.'s performance as HHS Director?

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In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr
laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic
saw public faith in Federal health and science
plummet—between April, 2020, and September, 2023,
the percentage of polling respondents who trusted
coronavirus and vaccine information from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “a great deal”
or “a fair amount”, fell from 83% to 63%—and the
HHS employees to whom he was speaking were facing
devastating mass lay-offs and funding cuts. Although
Kennedy did not mince words about the likely fate of
staff resistant to his ambitions, he promised open and
honest engagement with everyone willing to work
towards making the USA healthy again. To the Senate
committee who confirmed his nomination, Kennedy
promised a receptive and collaborative relationship,
and to the public from whom he claims his mandate,
he promised a new era of unbiased science without
hidden conflicts of interest, secrecy, or profiteering.

Radical transparency, gold-standard science, ethics,
compassion, competency, and pride would restore to
HHS the unimpeachable authority that the USA needs
and deserves. Politicians are known to break promises,
but Kennedy’s record, 1 year in, has been a failure by
most measures, especially his own.

10 days after his speech about trust and openness,
HHS rescinded a 54-year-old policy of soliciting public
comments for new rules and regulations, silencing
the voices of many of the stakeholders he pledged
to serve. Kennedy has summarily dismissed advisers
and experts, communicated policy changes on pay-
walled media, fired a whistleblower, and overseen
the revisions of guidelines and recommendations,
contradicting decades of established science, often
to the benefit of industries he formerly condemned.

Under Kennedy’s leadership, the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) shuttered programmes studying the
health effects of air pollution, HHS withheld a report
linking alcohol consumption to cancer, and the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) withdrew warnings
of potential harm from consuming products (such
as raw milk and chlorine dioxide) falsely marketed as
treatments for autism. His changes at CDC have driven
26 states to reject official guidance on vaccine policy,
and in December the CDC awarded an unsolicited
$1·6 million grant to conduct a vaccine study in Guinea-
Bissau that raised so many ethical concerns—the design
would have risked exposing thousands of unvaccinated
children to hepatitis B—that it has been compared to
the infamous Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee.

HHS under Kennedy has made a habit of throwing
good money after bad science. Amid the Trump
administration’s cuts to research funding and personnel
there has been a harmful shift in priorities. Cutting-
edge discoveries and clinical investigations—on
subjects ranging from mRNA vaccines to diabetes and
dementia—are denied crucial resources while junk
science and fringe beliefs are elevated without justifiable
explanation. Under Kennedy’s leadership, politicisation
at the NIH, FDA, and CDC is imperilling the future of US
science and innovation and throttling the public health
enterprise that keeps the country safe today.

The mechanisms maintained by the Federal
Government to monitor and report health concerns
such as drug overdoses, maternal mortality, and food
security have been as beleaguered as the doctors and
scientists who rely on them; thousands of datasets are
no longer publicly available, leaving Americans—and
the world—unprepared to respond to future crises. And
crises are looming: in November, 2025, the first human
infection (and death) from the H5N5 strain of avian
flu was recorded in Washington state; pertussis, which
killed 13 people in the USA in 2025, continues to spread
across the country; and the measles outbreak that began
in January of last year now threatens the elimination
status of the USA and Mexico.

Despite these developments, Kennedy has continued
to spread misinformation and push politicised agendas
at the expense of the country’s most vulnerable. When
called to account for his decisions by Congress, he has
been evasive and combative.

The destruction that
Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations
to repair, and there is little hope for US health and
science while he remains at the helm. Calls for his
resignation now number in the thousands. Congress
must exercise its duty of oversight and hold Kennedy
accountable for his record, or else accept responsibility
for endorsing President Trump’s decision to let him “run
wild on health”.

n The Lancet
www.thelancet.co
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Doctors do. State laws do.

"Withdrew a report linking alcohol to cancer." So what? Everyone knows drinking too much can cause any number of problems.

"In November 2025, PAHO announced that the Region of the Americas — including the United States and Canada — lost measles elimination status after endemic transmission persisted, especially in Canada, for more than 12 months...Ongoing outbreaks in Mexico and other parts of the Americas further contributed to the rise in regional case counts."

Further research shows the outbreaks started before Kennedy took his position or Trump took office, started in Mexico and the Americas (which, last time I checked, isn't the United States), and especially manifested itself in Canada, home of enlightened and wonderful socialized medicine where Kennedy has no say-so.

If you had even a smidgen of ability to use logic correctly, your whole worldview would change. But you do provide many of us with entertainment, so there's that.

RFK Jr. is a national embarrassment...even Baron has his "reservations" about him.

Link: https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/02/21/measles-cases-rise-robert-kennedy-jr-undermines-childhood-vaccines-sheldon-jacobson-janet-jokela