patrick.net

stereotomy says

They killed his father and his uncle (and possibly his nephew). How credible would a threat to him now to do the same to him and his family be?

If he is that afraid, what's the point of wanting to join the cabinet in the first place?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/anomalous-thursday-may-1-2025-c-and

Yesterday, the Boston Globe ran a story headlined, “RFK Jr. will order ‘placebo’ testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts.” What would we do without alarmed health experts? Is there any other kind? Anyway, not only was the Globe’s article another fine example of journalistic malpractice, but for careful readers, it accidentally cut the vaccine industrial complex’s femoral artery.

On some future day, aging medical school doctors will look back on our time, and tell their fresh-faced students how, back in the day, pharma firms used to test vaccines by leaving them out overnight and seeing whether they were still there in the morning. If the wee vaccine fairies didn’t spirit the needles away in the small hours, then Bob’s your uncle: approved.

I exaggerate, but just barely.

Yesterday, Secretary Kennedy and HHS made what could be the simplest but most impactful announcement in American history (if you count in total life-years-saved). From now on, with limited exceptions (like the annual flu shot), the FDA will require all vaccines —including those already on the schedule— to be tested against an inert placebo, like pure saline.

“All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,” an HHS spokesperson told The Washington Post. ...

You trusted that they were doing the work. You gullible dopes actually believed they weren’t just chanting “supercalifragilistic” ten times and hoping for the best.

But no. Here’s the giveaway: despite the article’s main theme was about how testing against placebos alarms experts, the Globe never bothered to explain how vaccines are currently tested. If non-placebo testing is so wonderful, then why didn’t that information come first, right up front? But that bit was conspicuously absent, concealed behind empty technical jargon and meaningless buzzwords like “correlates of protection” and “biological responses.”

Nearly every other drug except for vaccines must succeed against a placebo. But under long-standing FDA regulations, vaccines are excepted. ...

Not only that, but they don’t even test for efficacy anymore by measuring whether the drug actually reduces the disease or prevents hospitalizations. They just test whether victims’ immune systems produce certain antibodies. If so, they assume that also means fewer people will be hospitalized for the disease, which is a classic but oddly-named logical fallacy called “begging the question.”

They know it’s circular reasoning, yet they all keep pretending “everything is going to be fine.”

But now it’s all over. Placebos are back! You are probably feeling relieved and thinking, good, at least we have that debate settled, glad we have all behind us now. Sorry! Au contraire, mon ami. We must now deal with the experts. ...

Michael Osterholm, the University of Minnesota infectious-disease expert on Biden’s transition team, said the change _threatened the existence of coronavirus vaccines_. I’m not sure Osterholm realized what he was admitting there. If covid jabs can’t survive a placebo-controlled trial, then… they shouldn’t be sold. Again, it’s common sense, doc. ...

The Globe and the rest of corporate media studiously ignored a very basic problem with all the experts’ arguments: the simple fact that all other drugs require placebo testing. So any ethics concerns, delays in releasing, additional expense, and ‘risks’ of non-approval are equally applicable to all other medicines. Somehow, for all other drugs except vaccines, placebo testing is considered not just acceptable but de rigueur.

What jab experts need to explain isn’t why placebo trials are ‘too risky’ — it’s why vaccines get a hall pass while new blood thinners, cancer drugs, and antidepressants must run the full gauntlet. If a heart drug that could save millions is required to beat a sugar pill in a fair fight, why not a shot you’re giving to a perfectly healthy infant? ...

The experts aren’t afraid that RFK Jr. is wrong— they’re afraid he’s right. They are terrified the public might start noticing how little scrutiny vaccines have actually received compared to every other drug on the market. If experts were confident in the science, they’d welcome placebo trials as vindication. Fine, go ahead and do your little placebo trials, you’ll see we were right all along. Their panic tells you they’re not afraid of being disproven — they’re afraid of being exposed.

This simple policy change was much more than a first step. It was a seismic move. With only a little luck, it could change everything.

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/hhs-halts-deadly-disease-research

HHS Halts Deadly Disease Research at Fort Detrick BSL-4 Biolab in 'Safety Stand-Down'

Decision follows "identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility's safety culture."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered the halt to deadly disease research conducted at the Integrated Research Facility (IRF), located within Fort Detrick, a U.S. Army base in Frederick, Maryland.

Fort Detrick has long served as the U.S. military’s bioweapons epicenter—where government scientists conducted classified gain-of-function research, aerosolized virus dispersion trials, and weaponization of deadly pathogens like anthrax, plague, tularemia, and Ebola under secretive programs such as the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Division and Project Jefferson, much of it hidden behind black budgets and shielded from congressional oversight.

The facility’s director, Connie Schmaljohn, has been placed on administrative leave, according to a Wednesday WIRED report.

The great sham was safety testing vaccines against a "control" which contained everything except the biological agent. That meant that both test and control got the same adjuvants, aluminum, mercury, etc.. This irreparably confounded the trials, since probably most of the symptoms were caused by the preservatives and adjuvants in the vaccines, at least until the 1980's, when the biological components became increasingly more hazardous.