Posted on 08/17/2025 1:56:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Health and Human Services secretary defended his decision to halt millions in mRNA vaccine research funding.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes, a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, federal research funding tied to university compliance, the role of diet in public health, and efforts to protect athletes from brain injuries.
Halting mRNA vaccine technology funding
Kennedy explained the administration’s decision to cancel millions of dollars in contracts to develop vaccines using mRNA technology. The vaccines were being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
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WATCH THE FULL SCRIPPS NEWS INTERVIEW WITH RFK Jr.
Kennedy questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines despite overwhelming scientific research. He also warned against virus mutations and dosage control issues.
"You can't control the amount of antigen that everybody is getting," he said. "When you give a vaccine, you want to know exactly how much antigen is because some people react very, very badly and can get very, very badly injured."
Kennedy emphasized that the technology is still being researched for cancer treatments, where it may prove effective.
Responding to criticism from medical experts, Kennedy questioned the reliability of safety data and pointed to "5,000 peer-reviewed studies" that point to vaccine-related injuries.
"Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said.
He added, "There's always questions and we're always encouraged to have them. Science is always evolving."
(Excerpt) Read more at scrippsnews.com ...
“Trusting the experts is not science”
After WWII the USA put “in God we trust” on our money. We added “under God” to the pledge. Why? Because we suddenly had a national turn to God? No way.
We realized that the USSR and NAZI Germany were based on trust in the experts. Germany especially was focused on trust in the scientific experts.
We added “under God” because we needed to constantly be reminded that man is not only fallible...but evil also and twists science for the agenda du jour.
In his own way RFK is repeating what we agreed post WWII.
Short of God, we trust nobody. Reagan said “Trust but Verify”.
We accept some of what “experts” advise...but always with a wary eye.
Evil Individuals can control what goes into each shot. Thus, batch numbers. It gives them plausible deniability. It allows them to study the effects of their muderous machinations.
Big Pharma, which owned the FDA, is not pleased.
Based on videos of astrophysisist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s testimonies, he would agree.
When confronted with a colleague’s new “scientific” paper, he volunteered a peer-review of the work. Apparently, the criticism retort produced a blow-up—plus an apology Tyson later regretted.
“Kennedy questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines despite overwhelming scientific research.“
Scripps News needs to get better reporters unless they want to change their name to Scripps Opinion.
There is tremendous debate about the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines…otherwise they would not have come out with booster after booster.
They were effective alright.
At making many people very ill or killing them. I know some of these people.
This “trust the xpertz thing is RAT bullchit”.
That’s right.
It’s faith. Like some people put in God.
They just pick different gods.
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Nice, spintreebob.
Too much TRUST in big pharma and big food producers, but very little VERIFY.
Interesting story here how Texas got a voluntary agreement from Kelloggs to phase out some toxic dyes by 2027.
Well, except for the Jewish ones. Just imagine if all the physicists who fled the Nazis had stayed for a militarily aggressive but not anti-Semitic Germany in WW 2. Would Moscow or London had been the victim of the first atomic bomb.
At this rate he might actually get around to ending plandemic era policies by 2030. /s
Doing science leads to experts.
He should just be able to snap his fingers and get everything done.
WTH is wrong with him?
"Consensus" is not science.
Better (or worse)...
...WTH is wrong with POTUS???
Science over time leads to consensus.
Scientific “consensus” leads to carbon dioxide is a pollutant and two men can have a baby.
Those 2 are not “consensus” items among scientists...things like the Earth is round and orbits arounds the Sun vs the opposite are scientific consensus items.
I am not going to waste my time on a liar.
“Fallacia ad hominem”
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