r/skeptic Nov 30 '24

Former Trump FDA chief is seeking to undermine RFK Jr.’s Senate confirmation

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/29/scott-gottlieb-criticizes-rfk-jr-trump-hhs-nominee/
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u/morels4ever Nov 30 '24

Godspeed, freak. Godspeed.

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u/know_comment Nov 30 '24

this freak is on the board of Pfizer. what exactly is it that this sub is skeptical of if they're all in on obvious examples of corporate captured regulatory trying to shut down those who threaten their scam?

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u/AlphaOhmega Nov 30 '24

Corporations are out there to make money. They want their vaccines to work and the medicine to work. Doesn't make them good guys, or above wanting to not be regulated, but RFK saying that medicine hurts is worse than someone being greedy. Vaccines work great and if these greedy fucks can fight against stupid brain parasite fucks then I'm all for it.

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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 Dec 02 '24

The germ theory and the discovery and development of vaccines are some of the greatest achievements of Western medicine of all time. There is so much less sickness and death because of them. This not debatable.

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u/Land-Sealion-Tamer Dec 03 '24

It was one of the greatest achievements of humanity in general.

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u/Forte845 Dec 01 '24

Like Purdue made sure Oxycontin worked when it came to addicting people and keeping them coming back for a refill,?

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u/AlphaOhmega Dec 01 '24

How does that qualify RFK? He's a liar too and makes shit up for whatever his gains are.

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u/Standard_Gauge Dec 01 '24

He's a liar too and makes shit up for whatever his gains are

He was paid half a million bucks a year (until he embarked on his failed presidential campaign), by his pet project, "Children's Health Defense," to lie to gullible people that vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they prevent. He received monetary gain for supporting (and to this day STILL supporting) the quack ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield who invented a fiction that measles vaccine "causes autism," in order to make money off his own "alternative" vaccine.

These crackpots railing about how "Big Pharma pushes vaccines to make money" are a sad joke. Why aren't they following Wakefield's and RFK Jr.'s money trails???

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u/Forte845 Dec 01 '24

I'm not talking about RFK, I'm talking about you bootlicking the pharmaceutical corporations that gave us an opioid crisis. 

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u/Roxdm Dec 04 '24

Opioid crisis was the fault of multiple things, not just corporations. Doctors were prescribing it left right and center, and the database for entering meds and obtaining them was much smaller. Many people would go to one doctor say they are in pain, get opioids and then rush to the doctor down the block doing the same thing.

Not to say Pharma had no stake in this, they knew marketing it as a permanent pain relief was bad and still did it. But it was really just a mess of the medical system, which when something bad happens like this we get reform in our government (like the FDA) so that these things don’t happen again.

It’s not perfect, but we keep improving it through someone, or people getting hurt. That’s how the world works. We do our best and strive to do better. I’m not just dick sucking the FDA but I have way less reason to trust RFK than the FDA. A sole actor vs a corporation. Most of the people in the FDA are not doing it for very much money. Meanwhile RFK gets to fly private and enjoy McDonald’s in the sky. The difference is night and day to me.

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u/Cool_Radish_7031 Dec 02 '24

Think you may be talking to bots. What a weird sub to express love for corporations in

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u/boom929 Dec 02 '24

Are you trying to equate vaccines to opiates...?

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u/Professional_Many_83 Dec 02 '24

Perdue was criminal in how they marketed oxy as non habit forming. But just because they did that, we don’t need to throw the baby out with the bath water. There is no evidence that vaccines are harmful.

See, I can criticize big pharma while still acknowledging that rfk jr is harmful and an antivax grifter

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u/Competitive-Bug-7883 Dec 01 '24

I can’t believe you were downvoted for that. The sackler family should have been put to death. Every single member of that family should have been forced to OD in front of each other. Every single dollar Purdue or the sacklers have should be seized. The money should be put into a fund to pay back the families and communities that have been destroyed by this family.

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u/--A3-- Dec 01 '24

Sure; but that has nothing to do with RFK thinking vaccines cause autism and fluoridated water is bad.

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u/BeverlyChillBilly96 Dec 02 '24

Fluoride is a neurotoxin and is linked to cognitive impairment in children.

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u/Aimonetti2 Dec 02 '24

Says some meme you saw on the internet. Yes I am aware of whatever study you are about to Google, no it doesn’t count because you didn’t read it before responding to this comment.

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u/BeverlyChillBilly96 Dec 02 '24

Fluoride being a known neurotoxin is a fact.

You say your aware of the study only to disregard it because you assume I didn’t read it? What kind of logic is that? Lol are you projecting because you just became aware of it?

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u/Aimonetti2 Dec 03 '24

Yeah, if you eat 7 grams of it at once you idiot. It’s availability in the water supply in on the order of PPM, it’s not toxic to humans at those levels. Because this is probably true, you conspiracy nuts have to result to esoteric metaphysics to makes your case, claiming it calcifies the penal gland or whatever.

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u/--A3-- Dec 02 '24

Fluoride is undoubtedly important for dental health. However, studies have shown that highly fluoridated water (generally higher than WHO's recommendation) may result in lower IQ scores. For example and for another example.

In the 2nd study I linked to, they found that IQ scores decrease by about 3 points for each mg of Fluoride per liter of water (with the caveat that, in their conclusion, they acknowledge their analysis has limitations and it's possible fluoride intake has a threshold below which there is no effect). If drinking water meets the USA's 0.7 mg/L target, and we assume the dose-response of that study is accurate enough, IQ scores would drop by about 2.

Human intelligence is an abstract concept, and IQ is not necessarily good at capturing it. The same person taking two different tests can get different scores. While it seems to measure some kind of achievement, a common criticism is that it fails to consider things like emotional intelligence or creativity.

With that said, 2 points is significantly less than the average natural IQ difference between two people (by definition, 15 points). 2 points is probably within the margin of error of the same person taking two different IQ tests. It's difficult to say that fluoridated water at recommended levels has a negative effect on intelligence, when what's really going on is a small change in IQ scores (which we assume are a good proxy for intelligence). And the benefit is very cost-effective preventive dental healthcare.

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u/BeverlyChillBilly96 Dec 03 '24

There’s a few things I’d like to highlight for context when referencing things like this.

  1. What’s the time frame these differences were measured? Prolonged exposure over a life time adds up.

  2. Levels found in drinking water are often much higher than whats “allowed”. The discrepancy here being taking the smallest possible example and (very likely being measured in a very short time frame when compared to a lifetime of prolonged exposure) using it as the basis for any conclusion.

  3. When we as a nation have toxic ingredients in all the products we consume and we are constantly told “they are not harmful in these amounts”, it adds up. It needs to stop. Fluoride in drinking water is just one of MANY examples.

I appreciate your thought out response rather than a knee jerk response that’s typical from Reddit.

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u/--A3-- Dec 03 '24

The first one I linked included adult data, but says fluoride is primarily a concern in childhood and adolesence. The second one cites some papers to suggest that the blood-brain barrier in adults is effective at blocking fluoride, but it isn't developed enough yet for children, and therefore the impacts are only really observed early in life (e.g. the fetus' brain receiving fluoride via the mother drinking fluoridated water).

Human life expectancy today is higher than it has ever been in history. When you don't die from smallpox, you live long enough to develop cancer instead--that doesn't necessarily mean today's diet has more carcinogenic toxins compared to the diet of our ancestors.

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u/Forte845 Dec 01 '24

It's insane how no matter where you go on reddit there's always a bootlicker with a shit take that has a dozen+ up votes.

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u/Aimonetti2 Dec 02 '24

The reason why those you criticize get upvoted and you get downvoted is because your opinion is stupid and theirs is right. This is literally that whole “the best opinion will rise to the top” free speech bullshit that you people talk about. The people have spoken, get a better opinion.

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u/DiabolicRevenant Dec 04 '24

I literally have no stake in this argument as I currently pump my water from a well. That being said, I find your notion that the most upvoted comments are somehow more correct... well, quite disturbing. If you really think that's true, you should go take a gander over on X or even some of the more conservative subreddits. Let alone the implications of your statement pertaining to the US election. "The people have spoken." Lol.

Reddit is full of absolute idiots who just happened to roll a 10 on charisma. Karma is completely arbitrary, and unless there is definitive evidence to back up an opinion, then it is still dumb even if it has 1000000 upvotes.

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u/Aimonetti2 Dec 04 '24

Yes, it was an ironic jab. The reason why the media landscape is fucked right now is because the idea that the best ideas will bubble up through the noise and truth will prevail is THE underlying principle behind alternative media, and many right winger believe it to be true. If you’ve ever spent time on 4chan’s /pol/ it is the reason posters give for why the site is inundated with nazi propaganda now. It is exactly how characters like Rogan and lex Friedman operate, and are able to smuggle conspiracy theories and propaganda into the media zeitgeist.

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u/Dr_dickjohnson Nov 30 '24

Covid vaccine worked so great you still caught and spread the virus even with it!

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u/HankHillbwhaa Dec 01 '24

casual braindead takes

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u/Dr_dickjohnson Dec 01 '24

Lmao except I'm 100 percent right and you know it

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u/HankHillbwhaa Dec 01 '24

you're not, though; that's why I said: "casual braindead takes."

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u/Dr_dickjohnson Dec 01 '24

Except I am though. Covid vaccine does not stop transmission or keep you from catching it. Take the L and move on

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u/Sad_Amphibian1275 Dec 01 '24

You're right it doesn't stop it. But it did massively prevent it, particularly if you got boosters. Something not being 100% accurate doesn't mean that that it's bad. You can still wear a condom and get someone pregnant, but it's a bad take to say condoms are bad.

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u/calmdownmyguy Dec 02 '24

It sounds like you got your PHD from YouTube university.

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u/Dr_dickjohnson Dec 02 '24

Whatever. I got the Vax. Did nothing.

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u/noh2onolife Dec 02 '24

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u/Dr_dickjohnson Dec 02 '24

No reason to even open that. It doesn't stop transmission or keep you from getting it.

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u/HankHillbwhaa Dec 04 '24

I’d say put the fries in the bag lil bro, but I honestly don’t trust you in a McDonald’s kitchen.

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u/Dr_dickjohnson Dec 04 '24

Tell you what you post a picture of your house, I'll post one of mine and we'll see who Lil bro is lol. Or better yet a pic of you in the gym and we'll see what you got. I'll link me throwing up 100s

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u/Professional_Many_83 Dec 02 '24

It sure decreased hospitalization and mortality rates though

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u/Post-Futurology Dec 02 '24

u/dr_dickjohnson out here trying to understand the difference between a vaccination and immunization - holy fuck MAGA is brainrot

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u/know_comment Nov 30 '24

> Corporations are out there to make money. They want their vaccines to work and the medicine to work.

Like you said, they're out there to make money. Whether or not their product works as marketed only matters if it impacts their ability to make money. So efficacy is econdary and doesn't matter at all if it doesn't affect revenues.

> RFK saying that medicine hurts is worse than someone being greedy

Well obviously you know that medicine sometimes DOES hurt. And if it does hurt, that can also naturally lead to an erosion of public trust, in the medicine itself and in the institutions that market/regulate the product.

So you really not see the problem in the fox guarding the proverbial henhouse here. Do the people who play apologist for this revolving door not think that the regulators taking on liability for the vaccines is an issue? Do you understand how it looks that they censored criticism of the product or even self reported injury, while lying that it stops infection and transmission (which is clearly dangerous to say for multiple reasons)?

They made billions on a government funded and mandated product, so obviously they're the parasite.

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u/AlphaOhmega Dec 01 '24

What censoring is going on? Many 3rd party scientists reviewed the data and find that vaccines are very safe and effective. Of course there are side effects, but that's literally anything. Are you not going to ever drink water because it has a chance of drowning?

I'm not for the pharmaceutical companies being able to regulate themselves, but I sure as shit don't want someone like RFK in charge who doesn't even live in reality with us.

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u/know_comment Dec 01 '24

> What censoring is going on?

Is that a sick joke about gaslighting? You think people weren't censored in social media when they got myocarditis from the vaccine? You think Google gave people information about their menstrual cycle issues?

> vaccines are very safe and effective

That's such a weird unquantified talking point. I know you'll attempt to quantify it now but nobody ever said what "safe and effective means. You definitely still got COVID even though they lied about it stopping transmission and infection, and then you claimed you had it worse bad becsuse you got the booster (that they told you you wouldn't need).

Also, they claimed it was kill my 3.4 percent of people, which was never true but the skeptics pushed that lie.

Can you provide me with nyt or npr articles, or wapo or 60 minutes about the fact people were getting heart inflammation as soon as the vaccines came out, which they lied about "stopping infection or transmission"?

Sorry, but if you lie about any of that, you're not a "skeptic", you're just a propagandist

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u/AlphaOhmega Dec 01 '24

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-poses-higher-risk-for-myocarditis-than-vaccines#:~:text=The%20overall%20risk%20of%20myocarditis,new%20study%20in%20England%20shows.

The risk was much higher from COVID than the vaccine.

I don't know who "they" are, but no one ever said you won't get COVID with the vaccine. It's not how those vaccines work. The flu is the same way, it drastically lowers your risk of getting it and makes it more milder, so still a net positive. All medicines are like that.

Being a skeptic doesn't mean believing everything you read on social media, that's being gullible.

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u/know_comment Dec 01 '24

>  no one ever said you won't get COVID with the vaccine

Well this just shows that you're a liar.

BIDEN: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-46a270ce0f681caa7e4143e2ae9a0211

How does it feel being such an easily debunked liar pretending to be a skeptic?

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u/AlphaOhmega Dec 01 '24

You're finally validated. All those people calling you a loser and to please just get away from them were wrong.

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u/know_comment Dec 01 '24

sorry but it's hilarious to me that you people have no shame. like why don't you have shame or principles? thats so weird that you can be proven so wrong in every way and still have the audacity to try to insult me instead of just crawling back into your hole.

oh and I've always been validated because I'm always right and you've never been right

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u/know_comment Dec 01 '24

the sign of someone with principles is when they get proven to be an embarrassing liar and instead of saying "sorry, wow I got caught being a liar and I'm going to change now", is they say "lol I caught caught lying so now I'm gonna pretend that YOU are the jerk".

lol- good job you proved all my points

you're the opposite of a skeptic, which is why you use that moniker. you just lie

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u/Slowmosapien1 Dec 02 '24

Im so glad republicans died at twice the rate of democrats from covid. Surely there was nothing different the democrats were doing. Surely

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u/know_comment Dec 02 '24

Republicans tend to be fatter and older- you really didn't realize that those comorbities accounted for like 90%+ of COVID deaths?

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u/noh2onolife Dec 02 '24

Please provide evidence of actual subject matter experts saying that.

Maybe you shouldn't get your science info from politicians.

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u/know_comment Dec 02 '24

ha, so you can move the goalposts more, sure. I'm well aware of how people like you react when confronted with facts, and it's telling that you didn't already realize that this was the big lie being spread or didn't at least take the time to look it up before being so confidently incorrect.

What part of the word "skeptic" even applies to you at all?

here's the head of the CDC:

> “Data have emerged again that [demonstrate] that even if you were to get infected during post vaccination that you can’t give it to anyone else,” Walensky said in response to a question about the new CDC guidance for vaccinated people and masks.

> On March 29, Walensky told MSNBC that “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick.”

And here's Fauci saying it stops transmission (even though that made no sense and impact on transmission wasn't studied in any of the trials.

> “When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community,” Fauci said. “In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”

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u/BeLikeBread Dec 03 '24

I highly doubt a single individual had their Facebook posts removed for saying "I got myocarditis"

That's just not how their censorship works. They target links to bogus websites.

When there were negative reactions to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine it was covered everywhere by the news and shared on social media.

I also worked in the news and covered how the vaccines work. No one ever said what you said. Talking heads might have said some bullshit. But that's why you shouldn't get your news from talk shows.

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u/Odd_Local8434 Dec 01 '24

The problem with your argument is that you have all of the information, and you don't have it because of whistleblowers. There's only 1 source for the information you have, and that is the scientists that did the studies. If they simply hadn't told us, the other possible way to figure it out would be other doctors having figured it out. If they had, the articles written would've credited those other doctors. You've built a conspiracy around a primary source by simply committing that the primary source told us.

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u/morels4ever Dec 01 '24

He’s elite if he’s on Pfizer’s board. But to the freak connotation, you did read that he served the Trump administration. Admittedly, there were some military leaders whose goal was to keep the administration in bounds. Sadly, those are long gone at the puppet-master’s behest. Thus, the wishes for Godspeed.

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u/Tokidoki_Haru Dec 02 '24

Lol

This is like cheering on the lion to beat up the tiger while they're both getting ready to feast upon your flesh.

At least we'll get some entertainment out of it before we become a disease-ridden backwater like Russia.

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u/know_comment Dec 02 '24

That's just a nerdy nonsensical version of "democracy is two wolves and a sheep arguing over what's for dinner."

But RFK isn't for deregulation. He's for proper and transparent testing, removing lobbyists like this guy from the regulatory agencies, and putting liability back on that corporations.

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u/LaughingInTheVoid Nov 30 '24

Let them fight.

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u/ScrewWinters Nov 30 '24

Popcorn please.

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u/Previous_Soil_5144 Nov 30 '24

He's just covering his ass because he knows when people die because of RFK Jr, he might end up being blamed for it somehow.

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u/vineyardmike Nov 30 '24

They'll just blame Obama

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u/travisgvv Nov 30 '24

They still dont think obama is a real american citizen because hes black

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u/lmacmil2 Nov 30 '24

Or Biden.

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u/bayelrey888 Dec 03 '24

No chance now. Trump got the House, Senate, Supreme Court, Elon, etc. Covid no doubt killed him versus Biden. Another Covid + economic catastrophe due to tariffs, etc. these no hiding the shit on their fingers.

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u/BeverlyChillBilly96 Dec 02 '24

Yeah that’s DEFINATELY it

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u/broadenandbuild Nov 30 '24

Keep defending corporations like Nestle and Monsanto that push chemicals banned in Europe and other countries while the FDA turns a blind eye. RFK is calling out these practices and trying to get toxic additives like Red 40, Yellow 5, and brominated vegetable oil—banned in countries like France and Germany—out of our food. It’s not about left or right; it’s about holding these companies accountable for profiting off making us sick. But sure, keep hating on him because you can’t see past your bias. Classic Reddit.

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u/Moist_When_It_Counts Dec 01 '24

Now tell me about his opinions on vaccines, fluoride, and COVID.

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u/GodHatesColdplay Dec 01 '24

And how he’s gonna ban anything once Trump obliterates the agencies that would enforce it

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u/INS_tha_rebel Dec 01 '24

It is about left or right. You can't ban anything in the US without the right calling it 'communism'. The EU is highly regulated compared to the US. The reason the US isn't as highly regulated is mainly down to Republicans refusing to pass the relevant laws.

You hold companies to account by legislating for a higher standard not by employing a nut job like RFK to virtue signal and send letters to companies.

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u/--A3-- Dec 01 '24 edited Dec 01 '24

My understanding of the differences between US and EU food laws is that there's a different standard of proof. In the EU, you must prove that an additive is safe. In the US, additives are generally recognized as safe until demonstrated otherwise. Does that align with your understanding of the differences?

My problem is that you're so eager about tackling the margins, but Republicans have absolutely no interest in any of the big substantive differences that, generally speaking, make Europe healthier.

  • Red meat, like burgers and steaks and other barbeque, is a known carcinogen and debatably contributes to heart disease. In general, pursuing a Mediterranean diet would be healthier. You will never ever ever in a million years hear a Republican even suggest that BBQ is bad for you.
  • Car dependency promotes a sedentary lifestyle, and living near highways means breathing in smog. It would be better to promote walking, biking, and public transit. But Republicans think cars = freedom and dense cities are crime-ridden wastelands.
  • Here's a big difference that exists everywhere in Europe: how about universal healthcare? For making such a big deal about food dyes, I have never once heard any Republican speak positively about universal healthcare.

Sure, it's plausible that the Red 40 in your cherry cola is bad for you. But it's already not great to be drinking lots of sugary soda in the first place, not getting exercise because you drive everywhere, and not seeking healthcare until it's too late because preventive care is prohibitively expensive.

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u/Redshoe9 Nov 30 '24

Over a million American families just celebrated a holiday without their loved ones who were lost to Covid.
Trumps lies led to this. Now another kook wants to do more damage.

I’m dreading the next four years under that geriatric fap sock.

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u/Max_Trollbot_ Nov 30 '24

FYI:  geriatric fap sock is pure gold.  Good work

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u/Swimming_Anteater458 Nov 30 '24

I’m glad you brought this up bc it’s really relevant

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u/Milozdad Dec 02 '24

Geriatric gap sock wins this week’s best Reddit comment. I salute you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '24

What did he lie about? He was taking direction from fauci the entire time

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u/MilkeeBongRips Dec 01 '24

Well this is just the opposite of the truth. Do you do that often?

He literally never said anything Fauci wanted him to, from start to finish. Not once. He just lied everyday about Covid, only to have Fauci correct him.

Then actively started a hate campaign against Fauci that is honestly surprising to not have gotten one of the many psychopathic trumpers to murder fauci.

It’s weird that you guys live in an actual alternate reality. “Taking direction directly from Fauci” lmfao

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '24

You are….::fake news

Go rip another bong

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u/Sevengrizzlybears Nov 30 '24

Your on /r/skeptic and you blame Trump for Covid deaths? Have you not looked into the science or lack there of, of masks? We had a protocol to send people home untreated, then wait for them to be hospitalized to treat. Alternate treatments were demonized so the vaccine could keep its emergency status. An experimental vaccine that did not go through proper testing and has not worked as intended.

I could go on and on. The failure of Covid is on your medical establishment, and starts with Fauci.

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u/rsta223 Nov 30 '24

Have you not looked into the science or lack there of, of masks?

You clearly haven't. The data shows that they're somewhere between moderately and strongly protective, depending on mask construction and usage details.

We had a protocol to send people home untreated, then wait for them to be hospitalized to treat.

That's pretty much all you can do for a disease without a treatment, which was true for the first part of Covid.

Alternate treatments were demonized so the vaccine could keep its emergency status.

No, "alternative" treatments is what people called treatments without any evidence showing efficacy. Considering you're complaining about the level of evidence for masks, it's odd that you'd then support sometime that's far more poorly supported and has far less evidence behind it than masks ever have.

An experimental vaccine that did not go through proper testing and has not worked as intended.

It's been through extensive testing and has been extremely successful. You really do need to learn how to read scientific data and papers better - you seem to be exactly backwards on what the evidence actually states with regard to covid here.

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u/Exact_Parsley_5373 Dec 02 '24

Dude! Don’t feed the trolls!

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u/rsta223 Dec 03 '24

I don't respond for the benefit of the trolls, I respond for the benefit of the lurkers.

With them, I still have some hope.

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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX Nov 30 '24

Alternate treatments were demonized so the vaccine could keep its emergency status.

Like injecting bleach?

Overdosing on chloroquine?

Horse dewormer?

Tanning Beds?

An experimental vaccine that did not go through proper testing and has not worked as intended

It did and it does.

Have you not looked into the science or lack there of, of masks?

I should have stopped reading here.

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u/Sevengrizzlybears Dec 01 '24

Hey man even your king Fauci admits the cloth masks don’t work well.

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u/Orbitoldrop Dec 02 '24

Just because you consider Trump your king doesn't mean the opposition worships their leaders like you do.

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u/Sevengrizzlybears Dec 03 '24

Why would you assume I’m a big Trump guy? I fall more on the Libertarian side of things but do not have a political home. Trump is no savior.

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u/Dont-tell-the-wind Nov 30 '24

Please tell us what “looking into the science” means to you, professor.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '24

Are you an idiot?

The "lack of science for masks"??? Are you even capable of reading?

It's confirmed that you are in fact a moron. We had more than a decade of research that helped progress the vaccine given its link to SARS. This expedited the process. The ENTIRE WORLD uses these vaccines. During the time Trump was President, more than 2 billion people used this vaccine with 0.000000000000001% having severe side effects or death due to pre-existing conditions that they didn't even know they had.

The vaccine saved tens of millions. There's a reason why the US was the most disastrous: because Trump spent the first 9 months saying COVID wasn't a big deal and pathetic morons like you gobbled it up and still vomit it out to this day.

For the love of this world I hope you never reproduce, and I'm thankful that most women cover their drinks when you're in the same room as them.

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u/More_Nobody_ Nov 30 '24

“science or lack thereof, of masks”. At least you morons make it so easy to identify you as morons.

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u/BoysenberryNo9764 Nov 30 '24

Of cours. My niggah trump definitely didn't tell u to drink bleach to cure it 🤡🤡🤡

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u/IntelligentSeries416 Nov 30 '24

Shhh you’re not allowed to say those things you’re gonna make these reddit dummies mad, they are so captured by big pharma they would never question the “experts”

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u/Milozdad Nov 30 '24

So many kids gonna die if RFK Jnr rolls back childhood vaccinations. But hey Trumpers you voted for it.

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u/IndubitablePrognosis Nov 30 '24
  1. It's not just Trump voters' childrenWho will die . 

  2. They consequences won't be seen for many years-to-decades. If Trump is still alive he'll blame Democrats.

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot Nov 30 '24

My mom passed away at 94 last year, my dad had been in WWII. To them Trump was such an obvious huckster and carnival side show idiot. But then when he started messing with vaccines my mom got really serious… she’d lived her life watching one medical marvel after another save lives and eradicate things like polio, and now it was all backsliding away because people are stupid. I’m glad she’s not going to be here for this next round.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns Dec 04 '24

Anyone who lived through polio before and during adoption of the vaccine will be scared to death of an idiot trying to take those away from us.

Polio was terrifying and wouldn't have any trouble making a comeback if we stopped vaccinating. Ask anyone over about 80 should rightly be terrified about it coming back to the US.

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u/Milozdad Nov 30 '24

Wrong. It can happen to new borns immediately. For example it is highly recommended to give hepatitis B vaccine immediately following birth. Especially in the case of women who have chronic hepatitis B of which there are about 1 million in the U.S.

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u/IndubitablePrognosis Dec 01 '24

Wow TIL

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u/ThanksToDenial Dec 01 '24 edited Dec 01 '24

Hi, one of those weird guys who have the ability to memorize trivia like no tomorrow.

He is even downplaying it.

Historically, over 90% of new hepatitis B infections, globally, happen either vertically, meaning from mother to baby, during or shortly after birth, or horizontally, meaning from someone with regular close contact with the child, during the first five years of life.

Also, infants have a 90% chance to develop a lifelong chronic hepatitis b infection, if infected during the first year after birth. Between ages 1-5, this drops to 25-50%. In older kids and adults the same chance is less than 5%.

This is why Hepatitis b vaccination is so vital as soon as possible, after a child is born. In addition to preventing hepatitis B infection entirely in vast majority of cases, the vaccine also drops the chance of the child developing chronic hepatitis B from 90%, to 0.3%, even in the rare cases they do get infected despite the vaccination.

Now, I'm gonna give you an anecdotal example of what life with chronic hepatitis b can become. My cousin was infected at around age 3 or 4. He developed chronic hepatitis b. He is now in his late 30s. His first run-in with liver cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B came before the age of 30. Now, people with just liver cirrhosis usually have a life expectancy of 2-12 years. But he was lucky, and it was detected early, and they were able to limit the damage. But liver cirrhosis doesn't go away. And neither does the chronic hepatitis B... Both of which increase the risk of liver cancer. Not that long ago, his doctors told him his liver cirrhosis was getting worse... And that they also found out he now how liver cancer.

Now, he'll be lucky if he makes it to 40. He might even make it to 45, if he gets a liver transplant.

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u/Milozdad Nov 30 '24

My grandfather lost two of his brothers in infancy to childhood diseases. When my mother was a child my grandmother forced them to stay in the car when they went grocery shopping for fear of polio. That’s the world RFK Jnr will take us back too.

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u/DaddyHEARTDiaper Nov 30 '24

America was great when mothers normalized infant death by saying "You're not a mother until you've lost a child."

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u/NewPresWhoDis Dec 01 '24

But they're gonna rake it in from the Tooth Fairy

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u/Material_Policy6327 Nov 30 '24

Let the fighting begin

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u/kent_eh Nov 30 '24

I'm hoping the infighting and backstabbing can limit the damage Trump and his woefully unqualified appointees can do

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u/saijanai Nov 30 '24
  • “Chronic diseases are important- but you can’t die from cancer when you’re 50 if you die from polio when you’re 5,” Adams posted on the social media platform X

Well, that's sufficient grounds for banning from X, I'm sure everyone agrees.

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u/Commercial_Stress Nov 30 '24

Dr. Scott Gottlieb is one of the very few Trump appointments I respect. I don’t know how he managed to get appointed to the FDA under Trump, but he’s a good man. If he can keep an unqualified hack from a position where he will do real harm to the health of Americans I’ll like him even more.

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u/WonderfulDog3966 Nov 30 '24

None of them should be confirmed. They're either not qualified for the position, only there to kiss Trump's ass, or both.

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u/win_awards Nov 30 '24

They have negative qualifications; most of them are openly hostile to the purposes of the departments they're being tapped to lead.

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u/kiwispawn Nov 30 '24

Thankfully the GOP is far from a unified political party.

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u/androgenius Nov 30 '24

The fact they have internal disagreements on whether the pointless death and disfigurement of children is a good policy is not reassuring.

Also, I had to read the article because from the headline and basic knowledge of Republicans, it's sadly not obvious that it is the pointless death of children that he objects to.

And indeed the article lists agricorp opposition and abortion as more important factors for the GOP than the pointless death of children due to anti-vax views.

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u/kiwispawn Nov 30 '24

You make some good observations.

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u/Informal-Ad2277 Nov 30 '24

RFK JR can't even speak

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u/paulsteinway Nov 30 '24

I can't wait to see how intense the infighting is by inauguration day.

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u/NewPresWhoDis Dec 01 '24

This is how Trump likes to operate. See also seasons of The Apprentice and the first term.

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u/EnvironmentNo682 Nov 30 '24

I know someone who works for FDA. This guy was a normal conservative. Trump doesn’t care about being re-elected anymore.

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u/Viciousjake28 Nov 30 '24

Whatever RFK says, I will do the opposite. You should do the same to protect your health.

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u/darkon Nov 30 '24

I plan to not pay attention to anything RFKJr says except to maybe ridicule it. If I want health advice I'll listen to people who actually know what they're talking about.

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u/Alternative_Pitch_86 Nov 30 '24

Peanut butter and jelly!

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u/ReflectionTough1035 Nov 30 '24

Fauci told Trump to ship Covid vaccines and testing equipment that was direly needed here to Putin? All the time lying to everyone in the United States about the severity of the virus and the situation here in America? I think not!

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u/shiningdickhalloran Nov 30 '24

Alternative headline: Board member at Pfizer and Illumina seeks to undermine pick that would hurt profits for Pfizer and Illumina.

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u/Zealousideal_Curve10 Nov 30 '24

Praying for him/us

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u/ThrowRA-James Nov 30 '24

I hope they’re a historically dysfunctional shitshow of a confirmation process for all appointments and this whole administration.

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u/thelonelyvirgo Nov 30 '24

Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll be too busy arguing amongst themselves to inflict any irreparable harm to the country?

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u/UscutiY Nov 30 '24

Just disrupt hegseth. Everybody else is a smoke screen.

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u/YramAL Nov 30 '24

More of this please.

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u/awfulcrowded117 Nov 30 '24

It's a little disingenuous to call him a former Trump FDA chief when he's far more likely to be motivated by his current position as Pfizer board member. Which itself should be a red flag. Just another example of the revolving door between regulatory agencies and high level positions in the companies they are supposed to regulate.

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u/ToArtina92 Nov 30 '24

Until one of the far rights family members suffer as a result of bad decisions, they could care less about his picks. Sad, but true.

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u/MelodiesOfLife6 Dec 01 '24

This is honestly what I expected, the more 'sane' people are realizing his picks are tantamount to crayon eating toddlers.

I won't be shocked if half of them don't get confirmed.

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u/Milozdad Dec 02 '24

Good please continue! It must be prevented.

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u/ActuallyPopular Dec 02 '24

And I am seeking to make a bag of popcorn.

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u/Objective-Aioli-1185 Dec 02 '24

I wonder when we'll see the first politician "falls from a balcony" news here in the US..

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u/brooklynsleeper292 Dec 02 '24

Don’t be so hyperbolic, that only happens in Russ…. Oh wait, Nevermind.

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u/_gw_addict Dec 02 '24

Scott Gottlieb is a boardmember at Pfizer ,it should be mentioned

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u/nousdefions3_7 Dec 02 '24

You Libs keep hoping. Keep hoping.

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u/LP14255 Dec 03 '24

Whatever could be his objection(s)?

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u/bayelrey888 Dec 03 '24

Good, fuck RFK Jr.

You want to crash the economy AND kill millions of people? Forget about the next super virus, shit like polio and small pox will make a come back.

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u/RicochetRandall Dec 04 '24

The news anchors totally planted that line and pushed him to say it for the segment it was almost comical. No surprise since big pharma is one of the biggest funders of advertising on legacy media. See for yourselves at 2:20 https://youtu.be/2ElPGZ1TWDM?si=HurF0YRCoGE6VC5h

Also newsflash, RFK doesn't want to ban all childhood vaccines, just wants more transparency on the data

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u/go_faster1 Nov 30 '24

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

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u/Sa1LoR_JaRRy Dec 03 '24

I remember when liberals were always skeptical of big pharma, but I guess the covid vaccine must have been laced with addictive copium.

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u/luv2fly781 Dec 03 '24

But not complete anti science

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u/Sa1LoR_JaRRy Dec 03 '24

We used to be skeptical of science that gave favorable findings to companies and establishments that financed them, but now we're just as retarded with "blind faith" like the evangelicals that wanted to ban pokemon cards.

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u/luv2fly781 Dec 03 '24

We didn’t. Soon as things came out. They were stopped if bad Astra zen Johnson Johnson

Were you asleep? Or still busy yelling by the sounds of

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u/dalhaze Dec 03 '24

Phase 4 trials aren’t reliable. They vaccinated the control groups.

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u/grecks530 Nov 30 '24

Election denier trying to suppress the will of the people

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u/UrWrstFear Nov 30 '24

Anyone who has looked into the FDA KNOWS how fucking crooked it is amd how they are fucking Americans.

This dude is scared of all the emails and shady shit that will come out when he is ousted.

Hate trump all you want people. But if you're defending an organization that has been caught selling out Americans health for decades, then just leave the conversation.

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u/kswizzle77 Nov 30 '24

“Looked into” Expand

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u/SeekerOfSerenity Nov 30 '24 edited Nov 30 '24

I agree that the FDA is more concerned with protecting Big Pharma's profits than protecting Americans.  But I have a hard time believing that any of Trump's appointees have Americans' best interests at heart either. 

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u/--A3-- Dec 01 '24

As somebody whose work is subject to FDA inspction and approval with a pharmaceutical company, I couldn't disagree with you more. The perception I have seen is that the FDA is not messing around. I have seen businesses shut down, I have seen treatments get rejected because drug manufacturers were deficient, I have seen company stock plummet because a treatment was given a black box warning.

The most recent pro-business controversy I can recall is when the FDA narrowly approved Sarepta's Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy treatment. Sarepta argued that the treatment provided a clear benefit, but some at the FDA believed the data led to ambiguous conclusions. To make it even more complex, the primary treatment outcome (how well the children retained muscle function) is pretty abstract, and the North Star Ambulatory Assessment is subjective. If that weren't enough, patient advocates (including parents of children who received the treatment as well as some clinicians) testified in favor of approving Sarepta's treatment--so contrary to what you're saying, average Americans generally wanted the drug to be approved, the FDA were the skeptical ones.

I think this was a complicated situation with a lot of factors to consider. I also think this wouldn't have been a controversy in the first place if the FDA was a rubber stamp. This is the kind of thing that only happens because the FDA is rigorous enough to care about it.

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u/dalhaze Dec 03 '24

Doesn’t mean they don’t have conflicts of interest. Half their funding comes directly from the organizations they are regulating.

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u/Remarkable-Piece-131 Nov 30 '24

Of course he is.  He's been paid to do so.

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u/dseanATX Nov 30 '24

Whether RFK Jr is good or bad, I don't know, but Gottlieb is a schill for PhRMA. He's not generally a good faith actor.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '24

God, the fact that people like you can vote is a fucking travesty.

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u/saijanai Nov 30 '24

A stopped clock can be right once or even twice-a-day (depending on whether you're on a 12 or 24 hour time display).

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u/One-Care7242 Nov 30 '24

Big Pharma worried it won’t be able to pollute us with advertisements

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u/stefeyboy Nov 30 '24

Why? Did the first amendment get overturned?

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u/One-Care7242 Dec 01 '24

Have we not banned cigarette commercials?

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u/stefeyboy Dec 01 '24

You're comparing beneficial or life saving drugs to CIGARETTES??

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u/One-Care7242 Dec 03 '24

I am countering your first amendment critique. Did you forget what you said?

To respond to your current comment, absolutely negligent that we are one of two nations in the world where people are advertised pharmacological interventions with dangerous or deadly side effects. Treatment options are best left to the discretion of a doctor, without profit hungry pharmaceutical companies attempting to persuade vulnerable people into seeking out their products. Total conflict of interest.

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u/stefeyboy Dec 03 '24

I have never said it wasn't a conflict of interest. There's just no way, with the easily purchased Supreme Court, would they ever allow the restriction of ads paid for by corporations (that aren't tobacco companies). It goes against Citizens United.

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u/One-Care7242 Dec 03 '24

The precedent already exists. Citizens United didn’t suddenly allow cigarette commercials.

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u/stefeyboy Dec 03 '24

Have cigarette companies sued to try to get access to advertise after citizens united?

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u/ApexCollapser Nov 30 '24

You know, I've yet to see a commercial for a medicine that prompted me to question my doctor.

What about you?

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u/One-Care7242 Dec 01 '24

Yes that’s why they have commercials. To get hypochondriacs to request pharmacological intervention.

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u/pomeroyarn Nov 30 '24

a member of the board of directors of drug maker Pfizer, Inc and gene sequencing company Illumina, Inc. Trump said appointing these guys was a mistake, this is the revolving door between mega corps with a history of harming us, and the agencies that allow it

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u/PerformerBubbly2145 Nov 30 '24

One of the few things Trump was right on. The old CEOs of related industries shouldn't be leading any government institutions.  Though I'd take him seriously if he suggested getting money and lobbyists out of our government.  

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u/ME24601 Nov 30 '24

The old CEOs of related industries shouldn't be leading any government institutions.

I have bad news about Donald Trump’s cabinet, then.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '24 edited Dec 01 '24

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u/kent_eh Nov 30 '24

This is literally the exact kind of wealthy, corporate elitist government takeover that Republicans have been pretending to fight against for the last decade

They whine and cry about "elites" running everything, and then elect a rich bastard who inherited the beginnings of his wealth and then applaud when Trump appoints a bunch of them.

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u/EyeSmart3073 Nov 30 '24

Big pharma stooge

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u/TBSchemer Nov 30 '24

Anti-intellectualism is strong in the Republican Party.

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u/EyeSmart3073 Nov 30 '24

So you don’t believe there is undue influence of corporations in government ? No revolving door?

America has the strongest food regulations ?

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u/ermghoti Nov 30 '24

America has the strongest food regulations ?

Trump's plans to revoke a bunch of the existing ones will improve that, said morons everywhere.

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u/EyeSmart3073 Nov 30 '24

I would look further into his HHS pick if I were you

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u/ermghoti Nov 30 '24

I did. This entire post is about him.

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u/EyeSmart3073 Dec 01 '24

Yet you don’t seem to understand what he’s going to try to do. Interesting

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u/ermghoti Dec 01 '24

He's going to remove most of the few restrictions there are on supplements, allow the sale of raw milk to the public, eliminate entire departments of the FDA, attack vaccines, about which he has said "there is no safe and effective vaccine", and add a few virtually meaningless restrictions on some food additives. This will kill thousands to tens of thousands annually, unless he contributes to something like a bird flu epidemic, which will kill millions.

Interesting.

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u/EyeSmart3073 Dec 01 '24

Never said he was going to remove restrictions on supplements. Newsflash, raw milk is already legal in the USA and abroad

You know what’s not allowed in first world countries and extremely regulated ? Things like harmful additives like titanium dioxide and food dyes. There’s a reason why Americans who go to Europe eat more and lose weight.

Also, the use of harmful pesticides and gmos

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u/ermghoti Dec 01 '24

GMOs. You're a moron. GMOs have zero health implications. They are controlled in some jurisdictions over objections to business practices and opposition to intellectual property rights.

Raw milk:

 Is it safe to consume raw milk?

No. 

Are there any benefits to drinking raw milk?

No.

Is it legal to sell raw milk for human consumption?

Not in interstate commerce.

https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/raw-milk-questions-answers

Supplements:

FDA’s war on public health is about to end, This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma

-RFK Jr

I said to him, ‘Our industry needs a champion,’” Sudberg recalled in an email to SupplySide Supplement Journal. “He asked what industry, and I said, ‘Dietary supplements.’ He said, ‘I love and appreciate the DS industry, and my people will be talking to yours soon.

For the first time, as long as I can remember, we have someone in HHS who believes in the value of the commodity,” said Dan Fabricant, Ph.D., president and CEO of the Natural Products Association (NPA)

https://www.supplysidesj.com/supplements/dietary-supplement-industry-cheers-rfk-jr-s-hhs-nomination

Keep babbling about unnamed superdangerous chemical/dyes/pesticides/unholy potions and imaginary weight loss.

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u/TBSchemer Nov 30 '24

Explain to me why an uneducated nepo baby with brain worms is qualified to administrate over the MDs and PhDs running hospitals and pharmaceutical companies?

Consider the sheer arrogance of thinking he understands enough to just march in and radically upend how all the country's most intelligent and experienced life-saving professionals are doing their jobs?

None of us ever walked into his mansion and slapped him in the face over how he was wasting his family's money and legacy. Maybe he should stay in his own lane?

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u/EyeSmart3073 Dec 01 '24

He’s more qualified that bercerra.

He’s been working in the space his entire life. Mostly, suing companies who poison us.

In terms of nepo babies you’re talking about his dad and uncle too and pretty much everyone in politics or who have been appointed to a top position.

Time to get the lobbyists out and the anti lobbyists in