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Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy’s call for retraction of vaccine study
Aug 11 (Reuters) – An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal’s editor told Reuters.
That’s the US Health Secretary.
He has no medical training of any kind, nor does he have any upper level science education. He’s a random crank with a famous name. If you’re a random crank with a famous name you can set about endangering the lives of a huge population and get away with it.
Kennedy has long promoted doubts about vaccines’ safety and efficacy, and as health secretary has upended the federal government’s process for recommending immunization. A recent media report said he has been considering whether to initiate a review of shots that contain aluminum, which he says are linked to autoimmune diseases and allergies.
He says a lot of things. He knows nothing.
The study, opens new tab, which was funded by the Danish government and published in July in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed nationwide registry data for more than 1.2 million children over more than two decades. It did not find evidence that exposure to aluminum in vaccines had caused an increased risk for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders.
The work is by far the best available evidence on the question of the safety of aluminum in vaccines, said Adam Finn, a childhood vaccination expert in the UK and pediatrician at the University of Bristol, who was not involved in the study.
So Kennedy says nope and throws it in the trash.
What would Bad Kennedy prefer to treat disease? Apricot kernels and leeches?
Pretty sure the “leeches cure everything” crowd are full on MAHA these days. These people do exist.
I’ve lived with allergies all my life, including a potentially fatal peanut allergy at a time when most people weren’t aware that such a thing existed. I’ve also received all my vaccinations on time (my mother was a nurse, my father a scientist, so there was no chance I wouldn’t).
Even if it were true that the vaccines caused my allergies, I’d take the tradeoff. Avoiding peanuts and sneezing through the spring would be a small price to pay for not getting polio or smallpox.
Amen to that.
People don’t realize what horrors polio and smallpox are, because they never lived through them. I had friends who had polio. It affected them for the rest of their lives (of course, most of them are still alive, but I doubt they are suddenly going to lose the limp or whatever other reminder of polio they have).
Maroon:
Well said.
It seems to me that it takes a deadly pandemic like Covid or AIDS to focus the collective mind. In the name of ‘freedom,’ or in some cases, ‘FREEDOM.!!!!!!!!!’ antivaxxerism rose, spread its philosophical crap, and provided all the justification some needed to behave as maskless virus fountains everywhere they went. (Some did live to regret it, however, and repented on their death-beds.*)
If it had not been for Pasteur and those who followed him, we would still be dealing with iterations of the Black Death of the 14th Century in Europe, and our streets would be ever-resounding to the cries of ‘bring out your dead!’ as the corpse carts trundled through.
I grew up in the years prior to the Salk vaccine, when kids crippled with polio were a common sight. I knew two of them personally. Were they still alive today, I venture to say that they would agree with you, and that their opinions of the antivaxxer brigade would be unprintable.
*https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/the-virus-is-painfully-real-vaccine-hesitant-people-are-dying-and-their-loved-ones-want-the-world-to-listen
The thing to remember about anything Kennedy says or does about vaccines is that first and foremost he is an anti-vax activist. Of course he wants to suppress studies that don’t suit his story.
As far as aluminium affecting us goes, the amount of aluminium we are exposed to from other sources so vastly outweighs vaccinations that if there is an effect, it’s swamped out and the overall impact of aluminium just looks like background normality.
I probably eat more aluminum dust in a given day just from my wire stand than I’ve ever gotten from a vaccine.
Exactly BKiSA. Aluminium is everywhere. Dust in the air we breath, food, drink, cooking implements [waves arms] everywhere.
Aluminum is 8.1 % of the earth’s crust.
How could we possibly avoid it?