RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

VC: “I pretended to be a good person because that’s what I thought would make me successful and people love me.”

Everyone: “we can tell you’re an entitled dbag.”

VC: “well now I’m going to act like an entitled dbag and it’s your fault.”

- Me paraphrasing his actual interview. You know who I’m talking a lot.

You do, however, put on your sheep in wolves clothing.

Consequences for doing what is permitted by law and what has been done by Democrat supporters for decades?

Unions, pension funds, and other real social bodies need to realize theyre being undermined.

Dear god, there are mechanisms in place for this already, and they are so loose they are farcical.

It’s incredible when I read this sort of comment, and then I realise that the comment is so badly ill informed that I need to respond. But it does make me wonder what sources of information the other person is reading…

That won't help much because the quantifiable material loss in that scenario wouldn't be much.

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There's no appeal to emotion here. They're saying that people who had an outsized influence in electing this administration have an outsized responsibility for its outcomes.

Also, people dying or getting ill isn't an emotion.

Labeling someone's argument a fallacy without addressing the substance does nothing but dodge the point, nor does it prove the argument incorrect. It's specious; an argument from fallacy.

Thank you Spock.

The proportion of people who donated significant money is probably higher in vcs than the general population.

Wow this is unpopular, but you're right!

You are apt to be wrong.

It's amazing that within a single person's lifetime we can completely as a society forget how horrible these diseases were, and why vaccination was so popular and transformative around the world. Truly a victim of their own success.

Are vaccines like a high-profit margin item or something? I thought that honor went to cholesterol or obesity or depression medicine.

I hear from people who in the same breath then tell me the benefits of the natural chemical-free supplements they're taking, as if the supplement industry doesn't exist.

The pharmaceutical industry cannot make money off of you if you die of measles as an infant.

If one goes by the ACIP Membership Rooster this seem to be the case: https://www.cdc.gov/acip/membership/roster.html Likely, the compensation scientists receive for being a committee member is not great so the committee has to be constantly refilled. Appointees to such committees are de facto apolitical because there aren't enough world-class specialists available for the executive to choose between. So the Trump team will have to choose, actual experts in immunology or loyal MAGA goons...

A clean sweep of RFK and his ilk out of power and the media is the bare minimum of what is necessary to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.

That trust was undermined by habitual liars in an effort to score political points at the expense of public health. None of the batshit-insane things they claimed were just around the corner have actually materialized.

yeah, I see that.

Apparently ACIP is very much not new. I am curious to the specifics of the prevous mass appointment, however.

> Now if games were played to make most of the terms expire at the end of the term that's also not okay under any means.

I think terms in boards like this should be filled under a different periodicity from the presidential term, preferentially with a period coprime to it, just like the cicadas do. This way it would be harder to pull the trick of letting them sync.

Very fuzzy memory but I believe in the past it was common to leave these things for the incoming president (think Clinton era). Could be wrong.

Is it usual for 12 spots to be open simultaneously?

And if they can be removed at will, as link 2 says, why does it matter?

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How about John Adams?

So two wrongs can make a right?