RFK Jr.'s cancellation of mRNA vaccine research is even worse than it first seemed

[Zorro]

On first glance, the data that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited to justify canceling some $500 million in federal grants for mRNA vaccine research looked impressive.

The data, according to the agency, were embodied in some 400 research papers listed in a compilation that ran to 181 pages. The document was headlined “COVID-19 mRNA ‘vaccine’ harms research collection.”

“After reviewing the science and consulting top experts at NIH and FDA,” Kennedy said on a video posted on X, referring to the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, “HHS has determined that mRNA technology poses more risk than benefits” for respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 and flu. “We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” he wrote in an accompanying post.

Is that so? A close look at the so-called data reveals that the vast majority of the cited papers — all but about 40 — have little or nothing to do with the vaccines. They concern the consequences of COVID-19 infection, not the shots.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-12/rfk-jr-s-cancellation-of-mrna-vaccine-research

[Scrivener7]

1. What a fucking moron. All those lives, possibly your and my own, that he's just bulldozing.

[SunSeeker]

2. "We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted." Bullshit, he listened to the QUACKS.

[charliea]

7. Some of those hacks have titles

For example that outstanding "surgeon general" DeSantis has in Florida. So some hacks are officially embedded.

[Karasu]

8. Conservatives don't have anything BUT quacks.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. If this vaccine were that harmful,

by this time, there would have been a mass legal action concerning product’s liability against pharmaceutical companies.

[biophile]

5. You cannot sue vaccine manufacturers

[IbogaProject]

4. No one ever said it would be 100% safe

Recent studies have demonstrated that any slight risks from the vaccine and the amount of spike protein gennerated ate less harmful than a COVID infection with out having the vaccine. Things like this and pharmaceuticals are often a trade off but in this case the trade is mostly for bennefit. Now by blocking research less effort will go towards increasing safety further.

[LymphocyteLover]

6. Yes, exactly and this move is tragic

[AZJonnie]

9. Sure, because it's almost certainly AI slop

And not for the first time with this assclown