Benjamin Mazer

RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines Think VICP

"Sometime in the next couple of months, RFK Jr. will hold up a bogus “study” that he will claim proves that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause autism or some other chronic disorder." pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-pl...

The Man Who Was Too MAHA for the Trump Administration Vinay Prasad was supposed to be the guy who kept Big Pharma in check. Now he’s gone.

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Side effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists Caution is needed until the harms are better understood Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have emerged as a promising treatment for obesity and diabetes. Over the past few years, reco...

I'm as cynical as they come but seems short-sighted to write an editorial about potential harms of GLP1s and fail to mention that they decrease all-cause mortality! If we didn't know this, the same people would be calling for a study to prove it. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Is it preventing waste, fraud, and abuse to stop the government from negotiating drug prices?

RFK Jr. Is an Excellent Conspiracy Theorist He has an unusual talent for sounding reasonable.

It was noble of Dr. Hviid to respond to RFK Jr, but unfortunately it will do little good in the long run. Kennedy spews scientific sounding bullshit as well as anyone. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Data vs. Doubt: Danish Scientist Responds to U.S. HHS Secretary Critique of Aluminum Vaccine Study Anders Hviid, August 3, 2025, Copenhagen In his opinion piece published August 1, 2025, on Trialsite News, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services raises a number of methodol...

Sad to see one of the world’s most respected vaccine epidemiologists forced to respond to smears and conspiracy theories from the US Health Secretary…on a fake news site no less.

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The Man Who Was Too MAHA for the Trump Administration Vinay Prasad was supposed to be the guy who kept Big Pharma in check. Now he’s gone.

Vinay Prasad's departure from the FDA will surely come as a relief to a constituency that seems to hold immense sway with this administration: America’s drug companies and medical-device makers.

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Never sign a full year lease if you are working for the Trump administration.

Rush medical center announces they are incorporating an experimental cancer screening test into routine clinical practice. Will patients know this test is still unproven?

If you say you’re considering the overall risks and benefits of an intervention then you’re allowed to conclude whatever you want.

Listen: Some Scientists Speak Out on Deep Cuts to National Cancer Institute, While Others Flee - KFF Health News The U.S. has made enormous progress reducing cancer mortality since the 1990s, partly due to significant investment in research at the National Cancer Institute. But scientists say the Trump administr...

A longtime scientist at NCI risks going on record to air her concerns and the best response our health leaders can muster is to call her “misleading.” The public health establishment is allergic to transparency and open dialogue.

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This current Prasad kerfuffle could not be better scripted to perfectly illustrate the different, poorly cohered factions of MAHA, and then also awkward and fragile the MAHA-MAGA alliance actually is.

The real conspiracy theory would be believing that Vinay Prasad was handpicked by Trump to distract the press from the Epstein Files.

"Drs. Prasad and Makary are flailing. They are discovering that their pandemic allies were intensely loyal, not to them personally, but rather to their idea that the medical establishment couldn’t be trusted."

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Our current NIH director recently called RFK Jr's AIDS denialism "eccentric."

Tucked Into Columbia’s Deal With Trump: A Restriction on International Enrollments Under the settlement, the university will conduct a “comprehensive review” of its international-admissions processes and “take steps to reduce its financial dependence” on foreign students.

Columbia University will undertake a “comprehensive review” of its international-admissions processes and “take steps to reduce its financial dependence” on foreign students as part of its landmark deal with the Trump administration. www.chronicle.com/article/tuck...

An AIDS denialist is overseeing HIV screening.

The Obvious Reason the U.S. Should Not Vaccinate Like Denmark It isn’t Denmark.

“I don’t think it’s fair to look at Denmark and say, ‘Look how they’re doing it, that should be a model for our country,’” Hviid told me. “You cannot compare the Danish situation and health-care system to the situation in the U.S.” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I will never have a favorite door

Someone who has scant knowledge about healthcare said that “50 percent of revenues to most pediatricians come from vaccines.” You might as well say that they get the other 50% by charging for the stickers they hand out at the end of the visit.

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Opinion | This system is critical to Americans’ health. We must defend it. Medical progress depends on independent journals to advance science without political interference.

Just as democracy depends on a free and independent press to hold power accountable, medical progress depends on independent journals to vet, challenge and advance science without political interference.

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‘You Could Throw Out the Results of All These Papers’ RFK Jr.’s vaccine-safety investigator has already disqualified himself.

They ran a laboratory out of the basement of their Maryland home and administered Lupron to children based on their unfounded theory about autism

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Thanks to RFK Jr, the era of conflicts of interest at FDA are over.

Vaccine czar Vinay Prasad is now subject to conspiracy theories from the same anti-vax community he courted during his rise to power.

The HHS account under RFK Jr hasn't made a single post about the measles shot but did find time to promote ice cream consumption.

Trump has successfully retconned the COVID lockdowns to have happened under Biden rather than the first Trump administration under which they really happened.

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The MAHA movement in a nutshell.

Glad to see the conflict of interest era in medical regulation is over.

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The anti-vaccine pro-saturated fat protocol is obviously the key to everlasting life.