Trump’s HHS nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., returned to the Capitol Thursday morning for round two of testifying in his pursuit to become the next HHS Secretary—this time in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Sen. Bill Cassidy opened the session by explaining why he supports vaccines as a medical doctor. He told a story that anyone with the common sense of an MAHA mom could understand. He supports Hep B vaccines because he saw an 18-year-old female patient undergo a liver transplant due to hepatitis B.
Dear sweet baby mother of all things, what the world. This isn’t science. This does not justify giving newborn babies hepatitis B shots, let alone 72 (and counting) other vaccines before the age of 18. Any doctor’s experience witnessing any sort of disease for which there is a vaccine does not justify throwing caution to the wind when it comes to the CDC’s asinine vaccination schedule.
I sat there in shock, of course, because Sen. Cassidy has a medical degree. Does he not see how ridiculous his argument is? It’s like recommending everyone get on a statin because you saw a morbidly obese man have a heart attack once. But I digress.
Emotional anecdotes do not equate to scientific proof, nor should they be the foundation of vaccine policy, any more than a vaccine injury story should be used to undermine the entire vaccination schedule—to be fair.
Second, even if the Hep B vaccine did work and it made logical sense to give to an infant (which it doesn’t), that shot would not yield protection by the time someone is 18. Not a single vaccination provides lifetime immunity.
Third, there is ZERO justification for giving this shot, which can and does cause very serious adverse events, to a baby who is at an almost ZERO risk of acquiring hepatitis B.
Sen. Rand Paul luckily entered the chat to insert common sense into the vaccine love fest.
“So we talk about hepatitis B. It’s a terrible disease. It could lead to liver failure, as the chairman said, but the reason you have distrust from people at home and why they don’t believe anything you say and they don’t believe the government at all is that you’re telling my kid to take a hepatitis B vaccine at one day old,” Paul said.
“You get it through drug use, and [it’s] sexually transmitted. That’s how you get hepatitis B. But you’re telling me my kid has to take it at one day old. That’s not science.”
How many babies are born to Hep B-positive mothers? Almost zero—99.9% of children do not have a mom who has hepatitis B, so why are we vaccinating all of these babies on day one? Parents are right to question. (The line of questioning about the HPV vaccine we all know there are major issues with was just as bad.)
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is heavily funded by big pharma, wasted no time picking up where he left off the day before. You could definitely tell the Democrats both days were doing pharma’s bidding. Pfizer probably drafted their questions. It was that obvious.
The world was waiting in anticipation to see whether Sanders would bring out more cardboard cutouts of the onesies he wanted Kennedy to disavow. (I almost ordered one of these onesies, but I’m too cheap to pay $22 to ship it.)
Instead, we got this great exchange between RFK Jr. and “Bernie,” whereby Kennedy called out the good Senator for accepting more than a million dollars in recent history from pharmaceutical companies.
The hearings themselves could have gone better. I would have liked to see Kennedy “stick to his guns” on the CDC’s vaccination schedule. He can certainly say he’s “pro-science” and even supportive of vaccines without stating that he would recommend children “follow the CDC schedule” and that he would “support the CDC schedule if I get in there.” This is one promise Americans do not want him to keep.
He knows there are major issues with these vaccines, just like his millions of supporters do. And let’s face it. None of us signed on to MAHA because we were worried about food coloring.
Not…a…single…one…of…us.
In his defense, he wasn’t allowed to answer questions. He was cut off right and left and was really only allowed to speak if it was to affirm that vaccines would not lose their place on whatever religious altar has been erected for this form of unquestionable science. It was clear the Democrats do not want anyone questioning “settled science,” and vaccine science, as laughable as it is, is apparently settled.
Sen. Maggie Hassan became famous for this line: "Sometimes science is wrong ... and when you continue to sow doubt about settled science, it makes it impossible for us to move forward."
Excuse me?
Of course, other great things came out of the hearing—promises to reform the National Institutes of Health, to make science great again, to reform Medicaid and the like—all good things.
Sen. Tim Scott had an interesting question about whether RFK Jr. would hire pro-life deputies. In case you didn’t know, HHS has major control over abortion funding. Kennedy responded that he would, but we already know his Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor is anything but. She’s a pro-choice “Never-Trumper” with zero experience—and she’ll have immense control over the agency.
But that’s a topic of discussion for another day.
It’s clear the pharmaceutical industry’s stranglehold on our government is alive and well, and anyone who dares to challenge it will face relentless attacks from those who profit off of the status quo.
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