'Experts' Cited By RFK Jr. to Justify mRNA Vaccine Funding Cut Have Ties to Anti-vax Supplement Company

[Nevilledog]

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-cited-by-rfk-jr-to-justify

Earlier this month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, announced that his department was cutting $500 million in funding to mRNA vaccine projects. While mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives through the COVID pandemic and earned its inventors a Nobel Prize in 2023, Kennedy has long opposed its use and peddled false claims about it. In support of the funding cut, the HHS website linked to a single piece of “evidence.”

The 181-page document, “COVID-19 mRNA ‘vaccine’ harms research collection,” which is hosted on an open website, is a bibliography of misrepresented studies—the overwhelming majority of which have nothing to do with the vaccines. It originally appeared in an independently published 2024 anti-vax book “Toxic Shot: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines,’” according to its opening page.

Co-authored by Canadian immunologist Bryan Bridle, a professor at a veterinary college in Ontario and one of the authors on the bibliography, the book featured a foreword from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Naomi Wolff—both of whom have promoted conspiracy theories about the mRNA vaccines.

Bridle made headlines in 2022 when he sued his university for $3 million, alleging he faced online harassment and censorship pressure after speaking out about shortcuts in the development of mRNA vaccines. He dropped his suit last November. Today, he is an “international fellow” at the Independent Medical Alliance, a fringe medical group in Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement known for promoting the use of ivermectin as a treatment for a range of maladies including COVID, against which it is not effective.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Of course! It's always about money. Quakery has always been a big thing

particularly in the southwest. They never got over their mistrust of government, and now they've found a way to profit from it.

[Phoenix61]

2. Proof being highly educated and a dumbass are not mutually exclusive.

I’m not looking forward to the day a foreign country won’t let me in because they deem anyone from the US a public health hazard.

[Initech]

3. The wellness industry is fucking evil and needs to be flushed down the sewer!

[AZJonnie]

4. Man, I wish mainstream media weren't too chickenshit to write articles like this these days

I don't mean they wouldn't touch this subject, but it would appear on page B24, and they'd slow-walk the actual point in the most mealy-mouthed way possible, where everything counter to the Regime's talking points would be prefaced with things like 'some experts have claimed' and 'critics accuse' and that kind of bullshit. This framing here, otoh, is such a breath of bold, truthful air. Thanks for sharing!

Too bad it's such distressing news, and will get no M$M attention