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Bill Ackman explains why he embraced RFK Jr.’s skepticism on Covid vaccines (cnbc.com)
12 points by johntfella on July 6, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



Another article from a media source that doesn't let the facts get in the way of collecting their share of advertising revenue from drug companies.

There is an old adage that is often repeated because it is so often true... "Follow the money". Simply put, many of the most outspoken members of the "Scientific Community" that "debunk" claims about vaccine safety are documented to be collecting paychecks from big pharma.

If we stop and listen to the skeptics view with an open mind - we might conclude that it's not such an open and shut case after all.

Why would anyone choose to blindly follow without question? Are we going to echo the words we hear from biased news sources with no attempt at engaging our own critical thought process?


> If we stop and listen to the skeptics view with an open mind

Robert Kennedy Jr. thinks covid is a bioweapon that avoids Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese and targets Caucasians and Blacks:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/07/16/rfk-jr-make...

It isn't skepticism, it's just stupid.

If you think covid is a bioweapon then you really want vaccination to defend yourself against it. So being anti-vaccination is double stupid.


No he doesn’t. You can see his response to this here - seems pretty reasonable to me. [0]

>I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews.

He was intentionally mis-quoted to smear his character. It wasn’t the first time either and it won’t be the last. Funny thing is, these cheap shots only serve to discredit those who espouse them and lead more people to listen to the man in his own words instead of through the approved narrative filter of the mainstream media.

[0] https://twitter.com/robertkennedyjr/status/16802273225096355...


Read the article, watch the video. His claims have been discredited many times over.

And he has form on this. He encouraged Samoans to stop taking the measles vaccine in 2019:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/measles-outbreak-spu...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/11/26/deadly-meas...

Which contributed to an outbreak of measles which led to more deaths from measles.

Kennedy is out of his depth and doesn't know what he's talking about.

He's an anti-vax loony.


> He encouraged Samoans to stop taking the measles vaccine in 2019

I agree. When children die it is a tragedy full stop.

Now let’s do the DTP vaccine in Africa. In 1979 the original DTP vaccine was introduced in the US. It was discovered to be extremely dangerous killing or causing severe brain damage to 1 in 300 children. As a result it was pulled from the market in the US and Europe.

However, Bill Gates foundation still gives it to 160 million African and South Asian children each year.

Gates went to the Danish government asking for funding for the program. The Danish government asked for data but Gates had none so the Danish government did their own study. They looked at 30 years of data.

What they found was that the vaccines did reduce the incidence of the three diseases it was designed to prevent. However it also increased all cause mortality exclusively among the vaccinated by 10x.

This was unexpected and is one of the primary reasons that double-blind long-term placebo-controlled clinical trials are so important.


Basically everything you wrote is incorrect. Where are your sources? The US administers DTaP or Tdap as part of the standard immunization schedule, and use of the original DTwP vaccine became routine in the US in the 1940s.


Pfizer wanted a license to sell their COVID vaccine in India.

The Indian government asked them for local clinical trials first.

This should have been an easy win, prove the vaccine is safe and effective in a controlled trial and you can sell it into a market of 1.38 billion people.

Pfizer declined. Why do you think that is?

Let me give you a hint.

Here is the CEO of Pfizer admitting that he never took his own COVID vaccine. Isn’t that odd? [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1678719867975761920?s=46&...


I'll save you a click and spoil the answer: he's a dumbass who thinks he's smarter than the FDA because he's rich.


The same FDA that's had nothing to say about glyphosate, aspartame, or Vioxx in its day? The one that routinely allows manufacturers to run rigged trials including specifically the Covid vaccines? That FDA?




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