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"Trump cuts to USAID halt funding for global vaccinations":
washingtonpost.com/world/2025/
Trump could succeed in killing more people than Hitler did, and Trump's victims would mainly be innocent civilians. The price of more tax cuts for billionaires is measured in lives lost. #greed #disease #RFKjr #politics

The Washington Post · Trump cuts to USAID halt funding for global vaccinationsBy Adam Taylor

As Robyn Pennacchia reports, RFK Jr. is commissioning a study of the nonexistent "link" between vaccines and autism.

And, unsurprisingly, to head that study he has picked a man who is not a doctor nor a scientist, one David Geier, who has been in trouble for practicing medicine without a license.

As with so much about the Trump administration, nothing to see here, more along.

#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #medicine #research #disinformation #PseudoScience #science

wonkette.com/p/anti-vaxx-not-a

Wonkette · Anti-Vaxx Not-A-Doctor Picked To Head HHS's Vaccine-Autism 'Study'By Robyn Pennacchia

A just-resigned #CDC official writes, "Kennedy is listening to fringe voices who reinforce his personal beliefs. Kennedy has promoted unproven treatments for measles, such as the antibiotic clarithromycin — a drug that has no effect on viral infections.... in my final weeks at the CDC, I watched as career infectious-disease experts were tasked with spending precious hours searching medical literature in vain for data to support Kennedy’s preferred treatments."
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RFK Jr. clawed back ~$11 billion in COVID-related funding, stating that the pandemic is over. The funding had mostly gone to underfunded state health departments.

Meanwhile, about 1/3 of the CDC’s top management have left.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/03

Huge facade for CDC headquarters against a beautiful sky.
Ars Technica · RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in CDC funding amid wave of top-level departuresBy Beth Mole

RFK Jr's former nonprofit posted a fake CDC website that criticized vaccines.

Kennedy asked the Children's Health Defense to remove the site but only after the NYTimes contacted him about it.

Kennedy is currently using the CDC to waste resources on further studies on the long disproven link began vaccines and autism and, in the process, further bolstering antivaxxers' delusional hysteria.

cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/fa

CIDRAPFake CDC vaccine site linked to anti-vax nonprofit once headed by RFK

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on much-needed research.

propublica.org/article/nih-fun

ProPublicaNIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
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Kennedy Orders Takedown of Fake CDC Vaccine Web Page

usnews.com/news/health-news/ar

A fake web page designed to look like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) vaccine safety site has been taken down on orders from health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The site was linked to Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy founded.

#RFKJR#CDC#VACCINES