Vinay Prasad: What Does RFK Jr. Get Right and Wrong?

YouTuber Dr. Vinay Prasad joins Just Asking Questions Live on Tuesday November 26 at 1 p.m. EST.

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What does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. get right and wrong about science, vaccines, and health? Just asking questions. 

President-elect Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would be his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the Food and Drug Adminstration, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, and several other health-related federal agencies. Trump wrote on X that "for too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health," and  that "Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic." 

So will Kennedy—who has proposed removing fluoride from municipal tap water, and rolling back restrictions on everything from psychedelics to raw milk and ivermectin while banishing food additives and holding vaccine and other pharmaceutical manufacturers to stricter standards—Make America Healthy Again?

This week's guest will help us work through the good, bad, and unknown of RFK Jr.'s agenda. Vinay Prasad is a hematologist oncologist and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. He's the author of several books about drug and medical policy and writes at the Substack Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts.

This conversation took place LIVE on November 26.

Sources Referenced:

• Donald Trump announce RFK Jr. as his pick for HHS Secretary
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr on X: "FDA's war on public health is about to end…"
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr on X discussing flouride in water
• United States District Curt Northern District of Court decision on flouride
• The New York Times' seed oil "fact check"
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study - PubMed
• European Hep. B Vaccine Schedule
• Archival coverage of vaccine manufacturers' liability shield
• Galileo's Revenge by Peter Huber
• Health Affairs: The Revolving Door In Health Care Regulation (2004-2020)
• Politico: By the numbers: European drugmakers stuck between a dominant US and a rising China
• COVID‐19 vaccine induced myocarditis in young males: A systematic review - Knudsen - European Journal of Clinical Investigation
• United States: COVID-19 weekly death rate by vaccination status - Our World in Data
• Measles eradication: Measles | New England Journal of Medicine

• Producer: John Osterhoudt

Comments

[Eeyore]

RFK does throw out lots of random theories while talking. It is impossible to keep up.

Eliminating liability exemptions for vaccine manufacturers seems like a good start. We can watch the manufacturers do an about-face and claim they shouldn't be liable, because getting a vaccine is an inherently risky behavior.

[Eeyore]

Of course only Congress can actually make that change and they won't.

[SQRLSY]

Lots of people who wear hats get brain cancer! Hold their feet to the fire, damn-shit-all!!! Damned hat manufacturers are putting profits ahead of the sheeple!!! Release the Krakens, the Karens, and the non-stop lawsuits!!!

(Ambulance chasers need to make a living, too. They, too, are humanoids… Ore, at least, so we are told, by the gory glory ore-miners.)

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Well he's a 70 year old that does pull-ups, he's not an obese mentally challange guy who thinks he's a chick, so not qualified

[Spiritus Mundi]

RFK Jr is wrong about JD Vance being wrong.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

To be fair JD Vance is wrong about JD Vance.

[MasterThief]

I think we've gotten more smear articles against Trump's nominees than we've had coverage over anyone in Biden's administration in 4 years.

[Set Us Up The Chipper]

Fact check: True.

[minnix]

What makes this a smear article exactly? Instead of pointing out what's right and wrong and instead doling out overwhelming blind praise is what you're seeking?

[Uomo Del Ghiaccio]

RFK Jr allows the discussion to begin and be debated. Without RFK Jr, we have the same problem that Galileo faced and was imprisoned for heresy. There are serious questions and concerns that are being buried and discounted while the medical establishment promotes known falsehoods.

Not everything that RFK Jr believes is valid, but the opposite is also true. Many of the position of the medical establishment are wrong, but standing up the to medical establishment is difficult as we discovery with a death of a president due to the unsanitary practices of the medical establishment. The medical establishment vilified rogue doctor who were promoting hand washing prior to surgery.

RFK Jr is a good choice to allow the conversation to begin.

[SRG2]

RFK Jr is a good choice to allow the conversation to begin.

Desperate.

[minnix]

Allowing the conversation to begin and making claims from the get go that are not true are two different things.

[Set Us Up The Chipper]

Leftist fatties are pissed that their ultra processed foods are under scrutiny.

[SQRLSY]

The Right-Wing Wrong-Nut Collectivists shall decide for us, twat we shall be allowed to eat!