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Janet S's avatar

Thank you for this very important and thorough piece on vaccine research and its pitfalls, as well as David Geier's lack of qualifications. I have seen nothing in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal on this appointment, but a good article in the Washington Post by Lena H. Sun and Fenit Nirappil details a lot of the controversy about Geier and his father. I am a clinical researcher and immunologist myself and also have an adult son with an autism spectrum disorder, but who is functioning very well. I really appreciate your coverage of all the angles on vaccine issues.

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ronors's avatar

And that ain't the half;

molecular neurobiology warns against neurodevelopmental disabilities increase from president novichok:

“..government deploys new types of chemical weapons, intended to make the rebels docile…”

““Such high-tech weapons systems will be comparable in effect to nuclear weapons,” Putin said in an essay published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the Russian government’s newspaper of record, “but will be more ‘acceptable’ in terms of political and military ideology.””

“..Mirzayanov was in a position to know the harm being visited upon his fellow citizens.”

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/gargantuan-clean-up-effort-after-novichok-nerve-agent-poisoning-laid-bare/4010606.article

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/poisoning-of-russian-ex-spy-puts-spotlight-on-moscows-secret-military-labs/2018/03/18/9968efb6-2962-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/01/29/trump-knows-exactly-what-poisoning-the-blood-or-our-country-meant

https://news.sky.com/story/into-the-grey-zone-exploring-the-murky-evolution-of-warfare-12184358

https://www.opcw.org/about/technical-secretariat/divisions/international-cooperation-and-assistance

https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Unions-Invisible-Weapons-Destruction-ebook/dp/B09JF7QCCW

https://www.stimson.org/1995/chemical-weapons-disarmament-russia-problems-and-prospects

https://www.amazon.com/State-Secrets-Insiders-Chronicle-Chemical/dp/1432725661

https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/russia_chemical_table3.pdf

https://youtu.be/NuN6bEP_EGE?t=535

https://pastebin.com/wL7Cn0fi

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Daniel Flora, MD, PharmD's avatar

I think complacency is not an option anymore. Decisions like this could be detrimental to the public good. Physicians/providers/scientists/researchers, let’s share and restack until our voices are heard.

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Janet S's avatar

And while appointing disgraced pseudo-scientist David Geier, HHS has just announced that 10,000 employees will be dismissed in RFK jr's reorganization of the department.

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J973's avatar

vaccines make tons of money for lots of people namely doctors and Big Pharma. The little guy without money is trying to fight back against this by electing RFK jr. I hope RFK shows the data that proves what is causing autism. It has to be environment/food/medicine/vaccine otherwise there would be more elderly autistic people.

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Loren's avatar

While I certainly agree overall I find myself quibbling about one point here--namely, saying that indeterminate answers are always wrong. How fast was the manhole cover going in the Plumbbob shot? The camera recorded it in only one frame, thus we can conclude it was moving fast enough that it passed through the camera's field of view in no more than one frame's time. But this says absolutely nothing about the upper bound--it is legitimately indeterminate. (And, likewise, it's fate. Was it vaporized in the atmosphere or was it yeeted to the stars?)

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