Inside RFK Jr.'s Health Agenda 100 Days In

[Byrd]

OK, then he gets an A 

Yeah, I'd need a citation on that..., not saying he didn't say it,

but all of his suggestions still need Congressional approval, don't they?

Tell me what the past Secretary of Health and Human Services accomplished in 100 days or 4 years...

It appears in his book on Fauci where (quoting from someone who read the book - He laments that “germ theory” has dominated over the long-debunked 19th-century “miasma theory” which he defines as “preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and by reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses."  source: https://www.youcanknowthings.com/germ-theory-2/)

Apparently his ideas don't need Congressional Approval.

As for Xavier Bercerra (former head of HHS) you could look his accomplishments up on Wikipedia: Xavier Bercerra bio Wikipedia.  You may not approve of his ideas but many (including myself) do and he certainly didn't sit on his thumbs the entire time he was in office.

[putnam6]

It appears in his book on Fauci where (quoting from someone who read the book - He laments that “germ theory” has dominated over the long-debunked 19th-century “miasma theory” which he defines as “preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and by reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses."  source: https://www.youcanknowthings.com/germ-theory-2/)

Apparently his ideas don't need Congressional Approval.

As for Xavier Bercerra (former head of HHS) you could look his accomplishments up on Wikipedia: Xavier Bercerra bio Wikipedia.  You may not approve of his ideas but many (including myself) do and he certainly didn't sit on his thumbs the entire time he was in office.

If you say so, but we grade on a different curve, a quick perusal shows he was instrumental in questionable environmental impact cases, as Cali's AG cases that may have exacerbated the recent Cali fires, not to mention DISAPPEARED during Biden's Dark Winter. Except for getting COVID twice 

If you are still getting boosters, you may feel differently

Here's what the non-partisan Government Accountability Office thought of HHS Secretary Becerra

https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-sec-be...38905.html

 

Last Thursday’s report, from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), was followed on Monday by a withering Washington Post account that has top officials in the administration blaming the former California attorney general for disarray in the federal response to the coronavirus, charging that he has taken “too passive a role in what may be the most defining challenge to the administration,” as one of those officials told the newspaper.

The GAO’s report will be difficult to dispute, since it comes from a nonpartisan agency that as a rule scrupulously avoids the kind of political jockeying that is routine within any administration, especially at a time of crisis. The report faults the response of a number of federal agencies in handling the pandemic, including the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Treasury. But the report is especially unstinting in its assessment of HHS, the agency that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

 
For example, it notes that Becerra failed to implement “a comprehensive and publicly available testing strategy.” Coronavirus tests remain difficult to come by, and guidance about how to use tests has been confusing. The report called on Biden to “strengthen HHS’s leadership and coordination role for future public health emergencies” beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
“If left unaddressed, these deficiencies will continue to hamper the nation’s ability to be prepared for, and effectively respond to, future threats,” the GAO report said.

 
Dissatisfaction with Becerra had been growing for months, with top administration officials irritated at him last spring over his agency's handling of the influx of unaccompanied children across the border with Mexico. Becerra has no experience with core elements of HHS’s mission, nor is he a close member of Biden’s insular circle of advisers. “It’s been a steep learning curve for him,” an administration official confessed to Politico at the time.
 As the pandemic has slogged on, that curve appears to have become only steeper. Over the summer, he riled conservatives by insisting in an interview that it was the government’s “business” to know a person’s vaccination status.
More recently, he has been “invisible,” as administration officials described him to NBC News. He has not attended a single briefing of the White House pandemic response team.

 

[LightAngel]

Ask yourself this.    Of you folks over 30, how many can honestly say that their parents are autistic or on the spectrum?

Exactly!

This needs to be investigated so we can find out why so many people are autistic or on the spectrum.

It could be because of many different things, but we will not know for sure before it is investigated.

[Byrd]

Exactly!

This needs to be investigated so we can find out why so many people are autistic or on the spectrum.

It could be because of many different things, but we will not know for sure before it is investigated.

It's due to better testing and better ability to deal with this.

In the 1950's (and before) people were simply labeled as "weird" or "odd" and shuffled away from society.  My own parents took me to a psychiatrist to find out why I was so "strange" but he couldn't find any obvious abnormalities so I wasn't sent to a psychiatric institution.  People like me often ended up in the engineering or science or medicine fields where some of our traits were extremely useful and when you set us down in a group of like minds, we function just fine.

We learned to "mask"; to do certain things that make us "fit in" with the rest of society for awhile.  I can do it for about eight to ten hours and then I have to escape.

Diagnosis improved and eventually recognized some of the other traits of autism that, while on the spectrum, weren't taken to extremes.  My daughter was diagnosed first (women and girls were originally not thought to have low rates of autism -- this was due to strict society roles and there was punishment for violating these roles.

So we've always been here... hiding among the musicians and poets and shamans and dreamers and artists and writers and a lot of other people.  There's some genetic component to it but if you read history, you can find a lot of examples of people who were high-functioning autistics like me (Mozart, for example, or da Vinci, to name two popular ones.)

[Byrd]

Autism is a product of our environment and something we totally created.

To say it's "always been there but never diagnosed" is just bullshit.   That's a great cover for those responsible though (ahem...Monanto).

Ask yourself this.    Of you folks over 30, how many can honestly say that their parents are autistic or on the spectrum?

I'm autistic.  Diagnosed.  And I'm over 70.

[Byrd]

If you say so, but we grade on a different curve, a quick perusal shows he was instrumental in questionable environmental impact cases, as Cali's AG cases that may have exacerbated the recent Cali fires, not to mention DISAPPEARED during Biden's Dark Winter. Except for getting COVID twice 

If you are still getting boosters, you may feel differently

Here's what the non-partisan Government Accountability Office thought of HHS Secretary Becerra

https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-sec-be...38905.html

 

We're getting off-track here, but that's a report on a long career as HHS and not 100 days of HHS (which is what this discussion is about.)

Kennedy is making moves that will shift the US's life expectancy downward.  He doesn't seem to be doing much about measles.  From an AI scoop of data on measles -- "800 cases were reported in the first 16 weeks of 2025, compared to 285 cases for all of 2024. This represents an approximately 180% increase."

Look for more food poisoning if they allow the data collection to continue.  It was up in 2024... no data this year so far.

Maternal death rates have been rising since the overturn of Roe v Wade: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/...icials-say

[putnam6]

We're getting off-track here, but that's a report on a long career as HHS and not 100 days of HHS (which is what this discussion is about.)

Kennedy is making moves that will shift the US's life expectancy downward.  He doesn't seem to be doing much about measles.  From an AI scoop of data on measles -- "800 cases were reported in the first 16 weeks of 2025, compared to 285 cases for all of 2024. This represents an approximately 180% increase."

Look for more food poisoning if they allow the data collection to continue.  It was up in 2024... no data this year so far.

Maternal death rates have been rising since the overturn of Roe v Wade: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/...icials-say

Yeah, Ive shown here in their thread where it's difficult to blame the measles outbreak on RFKjr, but go ahead if it makes you feel better.

Predicting a data lag after the Democrats sat on crime stats for almost 2 years? they both suck RFKjr has his plus and minuses. You have your life experiences, I have mine. 

Im for the removal of chemicals and dangerous medicines, pretty sure we lost our Dad to pancreatic cancer, contributed by his reliance on Zantac and Previcid almost daily for decades, he didn't know, nor did his doctor, a trusted family friend.

But big Pharma knew long before they were sued, RFKjr will stop that kind of BS and quit pretending he is going to stop measles vaccinations FFS 

think the Zantac settlement was 2.2 Billion alone...

[NoCorruptionAllowed]

Yeah, Ive shown here in their thread where it's difficult to blame the measles outbreak on RFKjr, but go ahead if it makes you feel better.

Predicting a data lag after the Democrats sat on crime stats for almost 2 years? they both suck RFKjr has his plus and minuses. You have your life experiences, I have mine. 

Im for the removal of chemicals and dangerous medicines, pretty sure we lost our Dad to pancreatic cancer, contributed by his reliance on Zantac and Previcid almost daily for decades, he didn't know, nor did his doctor, a trusted family friend.

But big Pharma knew long before they were sued, RFKjr will stop that kind of BS and quit pretending he is going to stop measles vaccinations FFS 

think the Zantac settlement was 2.2 Billion alone...

I'm lucky I saw your post about the cancer risk, I've been taking Prilosec for 20 years and didn't know it can cause cancer, but most of these PPI's can. I looked it up after seeing you mention the other ones above...
 Eeeeesh! 
I can use tums from now on. :)