R.F.K. JR. GOES NUTS
Fired C.D.C. director Susan Monarez revealed in a Senate hearing on Wednesday that R.F.K. Jr. spoke with Trump “every day” about changing the vaccine recommendations for children, including the polio vaccine (which R.F.K. Jr. once falsely claimed killed “many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did”) and the hepatitis-B vaccine (which has brought the number of infected newborns each year from 9,000 to almost none). One White House insider reports that Trump has started running out of excuses to dodge R.F.K. Jr.’s daily calls. (Saying he had a doctor’s appointment resulted in 50 missed calls and 112 texts like: “Whatever you do, do NOT go to the doctor. My shaman Neal has an organic medicinal caviar that works wonders. It’s called taenia solium.”)
the VACCINE DEBATE GETS TESTY
In his opening remarks at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting this week—in which members rock-paper-scissored over whether to reintroduce polio or smallpox to the American school system courtesy of their freshly gutted vaccine policy—committee chair Martin Kulldorff challenged nine former C.D.C. directors who had previously described the committee’s hastily appointed members as “unqualified” and “dangerous” in a New York Times op-ed to an “open public debate.” Kulldorff, who was fired from Harvard Medical School in 2024 for refusing to receive the coronavirus vaccine, followed up on his thrown gauntlet with an observant query: “A key question is, Who can you trust?” At this point, we’d trust Typhoid Mary over R.F.K. Jr.’s Island of Misfit M.D.’s.
