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highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:29 AM Yesterday

The cover of The Lancet, and their article on RFK Jr.

Last edited Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:01 PM - Edit history (2)

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2026-02-27T14:51:35.805Z



https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00414-9/fulltext

Editing to add that because DU's software won't include the proper link above as a link, instead breaking it at the parenthesis, you'll have to copy the complete link into an address bar or search engine.
Editing again after finding out you can also use this link -
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2826%2900414-9/fulltext - which substitutes %28 for ( and %29 for ) as explained in replies 22 and 23 below.





The Lancet Journal
Editorial • Volume 407, Issue 10531, P825, February 28, 2026

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure


In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health and science plummet—between April, 2020, and September, 2023, the percentage of polling respondents who trusted coronavirus and vaccine information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “a great deal” or “a fair amount”, fell from 83% to 63%—and the HHS employees to whom he was speaking were facing devastating mass lay-offs and funding cuts. Although Kennedy did not mince words about the likely fate of staff resistant to his ambitions, he promised open and honest engagement with everyone willing to work towards making the USA healthy again. To the Senate committee who confirmed his nomination, Kennedy promised a receptive and collaborative relationship, and to the public from whom he claims his mandate, he promised a new era of unbiased science without hidden conflicts of interest, secrecy, or profiteering. Radical transparency, gold-standard science, ethics, compassion, competency, and pride would restore to HHS the unimpeachable authority that the USA needs and deserves. Politicians are known to break promises, but Kennedy's record, 1 year in, has been a failure by most measures, especially his own.

10 days after his speech about trust and openness, HHS rescinded a 54-year-old policy of soliciting public comments for new rules and regulations, silencing the voices of many of the stakeholders he pledged to serve. Kennedy has summarily dismissed advisers and experts, communicated policy changes on pay-walled media, fired a whistleblower, and overseen the revisions of guidelines and recommendations, contradicting decades of established science, often to the benefit of industries he formerly condemned. Under Kennedy's leadership, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shuttered programmes studying the health effects of air pollution, HHS withheld a report linking alcohol consumption to cancer, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdrew warnings of potential harm from consuming products (such as raw milk and chlorine dioxide) falsely marketed as treatments for autism. His changes at CDC have driven 26 states to reject official guidance on vaccine policy, and in December the CDC awarded an unsolicited $1·6 million grant to conduct a vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau that raised so many ethical concerns—the design would have risked exposing thousands of unvaccinated children to hepatitis B—that it has been compared to the infamous Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee.

HHS under Kennedy has made a habit of throwing good money after bad science. Amid the Trump administration's cuts to research funding and personnel there has been a harmful shift in priorities. Cutting-edge discoveries and clinical investigations—on subjects ranging from mRNA vaccines to diabetes and dementia—are denied crucial resources while junk science and fringe beliefs are elevated without justifiable explanation. Under Kennedy's leadership, politicisation at the NIH, FDA, and CDC is imperilling the future of US science and innovation and throttling the public health enterprise that keeps the country safe today.

The mechanisms maintained by the Federal Government to monitor and report health concerns such as drug overdoses, maternal mortality, and food security have been as beleaguered as the doctors and scientists who rely on them; thousands of datasets are no longer publicly available, leaving Americans—and the world—unprepared to respond to future crises. And crises are looming: in November, 2025, the first human infection (and death) from the H5N5 strain of avian flu was recorded in Washington state; pertussis, which killed 13 people in the USA in 2025, continues to spread across the country; and the measles outbreak that began in January of last year now threatens the elimination status of the USA and Mexico.

-snip-


More at the link.


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The cover of The Lancet, and their article on RFK Jr. (Original Post) highplainsdem Yesterday OP
Kick SheltieLover Yesterday #1
Double kick BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday #7
Wanton, wholesale destruction Easterncedar Yesterday #2
Great article LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #3
He is smearing the Kennedy name for new generations ! kimbutgar Yesterday #4
That's why trump-putin brought him in. To damage the Kennedy name. erronis 23 hrs ago #14
So sad but true kimbutgar 21 hrs ago #45
K&R Solly Mack Yesterday #5
;-{)..... Goonch Yesterday #6
Please don't post AI art made using AI tools trained illegally on stolen intellectual property. AI slop highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #18
;-{)..... Goonch 22 hrs ago #34
This message was self-deleted by its author highplainsdem 22 hrs ago #35
You know how I feel about how unethical genAI is. If you post AI slop in response to an OP I posted, I highplainsdem 22 hrs ago #40
;-{) Goonch 21 hrs ago #41
What's generated by AI is not the AI user's art. I've tried AI image generators myself enough to know highplainsdem 21 hrs ago #43
;-{) Goonch 21 hrs ago #46
While you were posting that, I was looking for an article to explain to anyone who hadn't tried AI image highplainsdem 20 hrs ago #48
The most relevant words Goonch 20 hrs ago #49
I support you with that. Doodley 20 hrs ago #51
;-{) Thank You Goonch 19 hrs ago #56
AI is here to stay so we need to get used to it. KS Toronado 2 hrs ago #71
;-{) AMEN! Goonch 2 hrs ago #72
;-{) AI is here to stay so we need to get used to it. Goonch 1 hr ago #73
If only data centers would limit themselves to renewables. Qutzupalotl 1 hr ago #74
;-{).... Goonch 1 hr ago #75
That makes it all worth it! Qutzupalotl 1 hr ago #76
AI slop just wastes water and electricity. And it isn't ususual for users of AI image generators to highplainsdem 1 min ago #80
More AI slop. highplainsdem 21 min ago #77
We don't have to accept what's wrong with it. Including unethical AI tools trained illegally on stolen highplainsdem 15 min ago #79
Agreed! SheltieLover 19 hrs ago #52
LOL ShazzieB 21 hrs ago #42
Please stop posting AI SLOP. nt Wednesdays 20 hrs ago #47
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m 10 hrs ago #70
😊We're An Inclusive Big Tent😊 -- One Person's 'AI SLOP' Is Another Person's Assisted Artistic Endeavor MayReasonRule 16 min ago #78
Of all the clowns in the clown car, RFK Jr is the one who will do the most long-term damage in this shit show. Initech Yesterday #8
The most unqualified cabinet member in history which is saying a lot.... NNadir 23 hrs ago #10
We are being run by a cabinet full of James Bond villains. Initech 23 hrs ago #11
Your last sentence recalls the line... NNadir 23 hrs ago #13
And the other plutocrat-owned and controlled "news" media are doing the same. erronis 23 hrs ago #15
Seriously. It's like watching the new Nazis take over in real time. Initech 22 hrs ago #32
They're evil and incompetent, but they're not smart enough to be James Bond villains. highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #19
James Bond villains are typically very intelligent Mysterian 17 hrs ago #59
I'm completely unqualified for the job and yet more qualified than him Layzeebeaver 23 hrs ago #12
The main qualification for an HHS Secretary is to listen to scientists, not to assume... NNadir 23 hrs ago #16
It might be a toss-up between him, Miller, and Noem..... AZ8theist 16 hrs ago #60
RFK Jr. was put at the head of HHS, so that he would destroy all these programs and so trump could take that money MLWR Yesterday #9
I found this link to The Lancet to work better. YMMV. erronis 23 hrs ago #17
That's the same link I posted, and doesn't work directly from DU either because DU's software won't highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #20
Try this: hunter 23 hrs ago #23
Thanks! highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #25
For the record, eggplant beat me too it. hunter 23 hrs ago #26
Yes, I saw, and posted a thank you, and mentioned both your replies in the edited OP. highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #27
It's chilling to note that the word "promised" appears repeatedly in the passage shown. CBHagman 23 hrs ago #21
Try this url eggplant 23 hrs ago #22
Thanks! Didn't know that. I'll edit the OP again. highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #24
That crazy baboon is incredibly dangerous. Dave Bowman 23 hrs ago #28
They all are. The Trump regime would be one of the craziest sitcoms ever if the characters were just highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #30
Yeah, he sure would be ashamed of the ignorant fool who's playing with people's health. 🙁 Dave Bowman 17 hrs ago #57
If it wasn't RFK Jr it would have been another clown like Dr. Oz or some Covid Conspiracy nut maxsolomon 23 hrs ago #29
Look up "HTML encoding" to fix links that break like this in the future if you want :) AZJonnie 23 hrs ago #31
Thanks! highplainsdem 22 hrs ago #33
No problem sistah! 👍 AZJonnie 22 hrs ago #36
Yup. People will die because of this TexasBushwhacker 22 hrs ago #38
Trump chose well. dalton99a 22 hrs ago #37
Secretary Brainworm's thing about "shared decision making" for vaccines really irks me. 3catwoman3 22 hrs ago #39
They're not wrong...nt Wounded Bear 21 hrs ago #44
Completely intentional orangecrush 20 hrs ago #50
There is no surprise about anything Kennedy does. Those that confirmed him have no excuse. Doodley 19 hrs ago #53
And a medical doctor cast the deciding vote for RFKjr... spanone 19 hrs ago #54
Means is an ally of RFK Jr. bmichaelh 19 hrs ago #55
I campaigned for his father ... Jarqui 17 hrs ago #58
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME Skittles 14 hrs ago #61
Getting rid of people who might be on Social Security, Medicaid, or any government program repukes highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #63
but....fucking with vaccines Skittles 14 hrs ago #64
They assume they'll still have good medical care. That mostly the poor will suffer and die. highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #65
sounds so PRO-LIFE and CHRISTIAN Skittles 14 hrs ago #66
They're anything but true Christians. highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #67
sad to say but... Skittles 14 hrs ago #68
Most self-professed Christians I know don't follow Christ's teachings very well, either. highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #69
No worries, T💩p's Surgeon General nominee is a medical school dropout. OMGWTF 14 hrs ago #62

Easterncedar

(5,974 posts)
2. Wanton, wholesale destruction
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 11:39 AM
Yesterday

Evil manifested. Can you imagine what his father would suffer, seeing this?

erronis

(23,407 posts)
14. That's why trump-putin brought him in. To damage the Kennedy name.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:31 PM
23 hrs ago

They knew that rfkjr was an unstable addicted narcissist - just like trump - so they hired him and probably keep him well stocked on some designer drugs.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
18. Please don't post AI art made using AI tools trained illegally on stolen intellectual property. AI slop
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:37 PM
23 hrs ago

is something that MAGA loves, even from official government accounts. They're fine with AI companies stealing intellectual property, and the AI companies have aligned with and flattered Trump.

Generative AI is based on deliberate and continuing theft, and it creates lots of problems that liberals traditionally fight.

The Trump regime wants people to use genAI more and more. Including to answer health questions.

Goonch

(4,627 posts)
34. ;-{).....
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:32 PM
22 hrs ago

lf my art bothers you then you can always add me to your Ignore List. Otherwise, please stop stalking me.

Response to Goonch (Reply #34)

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
40. You know how I feel about how unethical genAI is. If you post AI slop in response to an OP I posted, I
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:59 PM
22 hrs ago

will respond to it.

If you post AI slop anywhere on DU, one of the many DUers who dislike AI slop might respond to it, because it IS unethical and it makes DU look bad.

Goonch

(4,627 posts)
41. ;-{)
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:26 PM
21 hrs ago

You know how I feel about my art, but nothing about artistic process or, perhaps, art in general or freedom of artistic expression. However, you do seem to know about veiled threats and bullying.

Let's just agree to disagree and go our separate ways.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
43. What's generated by AI is not the AI user's art. I've tried AI image generators myself enough to know
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:43 PM
21 hrs ago

how little control the user has over what's generated, and I've read of AI users rejecting hundreds or even thousands of images they don't like before finally getting one they do like enough to call their own.

I would have had to be kidding myself, when I tried those image generators, to call what the AI spat out from.stolen IP my own work.

Goonch

(4,627 posts)
46. ;-{)
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 03:04 PM
21 hrs ago

Tools have a learning curve and be dangerous, especially if used improperly.

A poor workman blames his tools.

You always need to have the last word.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
48. While you were posting that, I was looking for an article to explain to anyone who hadn't tried AI image
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 03:26 PM
20 hrs ago

generators just how little control over what's generated the AI user has.

One striking comment I found was from an AI user who actually sells some AI art.

This was posted in the Adobe Community forum:

https://community.adobe.com/questions-38/too-many-rejected-ai-generated-images-lately-327849?postid=5992190#post5992190

Very poor quality. Are you using a custom model? Can you output at a higher resolution? Even then, expect to spend far longer correcting/editing/cleaning things up in Photoshop than you ever would in building/working the prompt. I sell a *lot* of AI images, but of course I generate 200-300+ for each one that I feel is worth working on, and even after editing only submit less than half I've done any kind of postprocessing on.


Emphasis added.

The most relevant words there are "of course" - and no one there expressed shock because they knew how many extra images were generated, each request for more using more electricity and water to cool data centers.

DUers probably don't realize that almost every piece of AI-generated art they see anywhere has a long, unseen trail of rejected images behind it, and even the best often needs a lot of correcting, because the AI user has so little control.

Here's a detailed article that goes into those problems with lack of control:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-imagegen-stages/

After defining their goal, participants used the tool to generate images. The exploration phase typically involved creating many images (anywhere from 20 to 80 images), to increase the likelihood that one image aligns with their vision enough.

-snip-

This technique involves repeating the same prompt to “exhaust the possibilities” related to one creative direction. Due to the inherent randomness of the AI image-generation algorithm, this practice resulted in many variations of the same concept, allowing people to choose what they liked best.

-snip-

One study participant wanted to create an image of a steampunk-themed sofa. After multiple iterations, she got an image of a sofa she was happy with but wanted to change the upholstery from plain to striped. This edit proved difficult, as the appearance of the sofa would change every time she tried to make an adjustment, due to the randomness of the AI tool.

Changing small details of an AI-generated image can be an arduous, time-consuming task. Participants often experience frustration due to the lack of user control (usability heuristic #3) inherent to current AI image-generation tools. Unlike traditional image-processing software, these tools offer limited support for fine adjustments, which means users end up fighting against the AI to achieve desired outcomes. Consequently, users frequently end up dissatisfied as the final images often fall short of perfection.


Again, emphasis added.

Real artists don't have that lack of control. AI users do.

Goonch

(4,627 posts)
49. The most relevant words
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 03:44 PM
20 hrs ago

are in the well thought out, well written, highly detailed phrasing of your original instructions Garbage in garbage out.

So long, and thanks for all the fish ;-{)

KS Toronado

(23,582 posts)
71. AI is here to stay so we need to get used to it.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:59 AM
2 hrs ago

Believe the message a cartoon is attempting to convey is more important than how good or
poorly the artwork looks.

Qutzupalotl

(15,772 posts)
74. If only data centers would limit themselves to renewables.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 10:32 AM
1 hr ago

Sadly, they cook the planet, and are growing exponentially.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
80. AI slop just wastes water and electricity. And it isn't ususual for users of AI image generators to
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:15 PM
1 min ago

have the AI vomit out dozens or even hundreds of images to get one that isn't too flawed to post. Those AI tools can generate a batch - typically 4 - of images in under 10 seconds. The free tier of Google's Gemini, the AI those images are from, allows, iirc, 100 images or maybe batches of images a day. The cheap $20/mo tier allows 1,000 images or batches a day. Each image wasting some water and electricity.

That slop is why they need data centers. It costs AI companies but gets people hooked on AI so they'll eventually pay more and more for it. And playing with AI and being told they're somehow creative having AI do something for them turns them into advocates for AI who will overlook intellectual property having been stolen to train the AI.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
79. We don't have to accept what's wrong with it. Including unethical AI tools trained illegally on stolen
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:02 PM
15 min ago

intellectual property.

Using them doesn't show any real creativity/skill/talent, and in fact they dumb users down and keep people from developing any real skill.

And people have to make a conscious or subconscious decision that they don't give a damn about all the people who work was stolen, to use those tools voluntarily.

Which makes using them anti-art, anti-creativity, and ultimately anti-human.

ShazzieB

(22,446 posts)
42. LOL
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:28 PM
21 hrs ago

But this cartoon makes him look way too good imo, especially his face. He looks all happy and friendly here, but irl his usual facial expression is sour, scornful, and enbittered. Like he thinks has 1000% smarter than everybody else and and is mad at the world for not recognizing that.

Response to Wednesdays (Reply #47)

MayReasonRule

(4,083 posts)
78. 😊We're An Inclusive Big Tent😊 -- One Person's 'AI SLOP' Is Another Person's Assisted Artistic Endeavor
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:01 PM
16 min ago

I see no reason to deride others over such endeavors utilizing vision aids, hearing aids, physical aids or creative aids.🥹

We each seek to overcome our human foibles by employing tools of our own choosing.

We each seek to communicate in a manner easily understood, each in our own way.

Happy Saturday to ya!

Initech

(108,355 posts)
8. Of all the clowns in the clown car, RFK Jr is the one who will do the most long-term damage in this shit show.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:02 PM
Yesterday

Worst HHS director in American history. Fuck him.

NNadir

(37,746 posts)
10. The most unqualified cabinet member in history which is saying a lot....
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:25 PM
23 hrs ago

...because there have been some absymal cases, with the highest concentration of absymal cabinet members ever in this current capacious set. They cannot be called an administration so much as vandalizing looters.

Initech

(108,355 posts)
11. We are being run by a cabinet full of James Bond villains.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:28 PM
23 hrs ago

And each one is more horrifying than the next. They exist to do two things - destroy whatever department they're in charge of, and kiss his worthless, disgusting ass on Fox News nightly. Fox News got their dream president and administration - and we're all paying the price for it.

Fox News has done more damage to the United States than Al'Qaeda or the Taliban could ever dream of.

NNadir

(37,746 posts)
13. Your last sentence recalls the line...
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:31 PM
23 hrs ago

...in the original Wizard of Oz spoken by tge cowardly lion, "Ain't it the truth! Ain't it the truth!"

Initech

(108,355 posts)
32. Seriously. It's like watching the new Nazis take over in real time.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:20 PM
22 hrs ago

Nothing is spared from these sick fucks.

Mysterian

(6,308 posts)
59. James Bond villains are typically very intelligent
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:37 PM
17 hrs ago

This clusterfuck of an administration is a bunch of fucking morons.

Kristi fucking Noem in charge of DHS.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

NNadir

(37,746 posts)
16. The main qualification for an HHS Secretary is to listen to scientists, not to assume...
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:34 PM
23 hrs ago

Last edited Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:06 PM - Edit history (1)

...that one knows more than scientists.

You could not do worse than brain worm Bob.

He's the worst kind of moron, an arrogant moron, the class into which his boss fits.

AZ8theist

(7,218 posts)
60. It might be a toss-up between him, Miller, and Noem.....
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:50 PM
16 hrs ago

...oh, fuck it. They ALL SUCK.

Not one intelligent , redeeming person in the lot. But then again, just look at their boss. Nuf said.

MLWR

(962 posts)
9. RFK Jr. was put at the head of HHS, so that he would destroy all these programs and so trump could take that money
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:16 PM
Yesterday

which had been appropriated for those purposes and either put it in his own off-shore accounts or use it to fund his thugs in ICE or his invasions of sovereign nations to deflect from the EPSTEIN FILES.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
20. That's the same link I posted, and doesn't work directly from DU either because DU's software won't
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:43 PM
23 hrs ago

incorporate the section starting with a parenthesis as part of the link. You have to copy the link into an address bar or search engine.

And I just edited the OP to make that clear.

The same thing happens if, for instance, someone posts a YouTube video with a time stamp to start playing the video at a particular time. The time stamp part of the link won't work on DU, so you have to explain which point in the video you mean, even if the link includes it.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
27. Yes, I saw, and posted a thank you, and mentioned both your replies in the edited OP.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:03 PM
23 hrs ago

CBHagman

(17,476 posts)
21. It's chilling to note that the word "promised" appears repeatedly in the passage shown.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:48 PM
23 hrs ago

Promises do not mean a thing from this administration, but Kennedy in particular cannot be trusted in a conversation, let alone on testimony and on policy.

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
30. They all are. The Trump regime would be one of the craziest sitcoms ever if the characters were just
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:09 PM
23 hrs ago

fictional and harmless. But these loons are real and a threat not just to the US but often to other countries as well.

I saw Bobby Kennedy give a speech in 1968, and I'd arrived so late I was still outside the building and was able to shake his hand as he went past.

He would have been so ashamed of RFK Jr.

Dave Bowman

(7,017 posts)
57. Yeah, he sure would be ashamed of the ignorant fool who's playing with people's health. 🙁
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:19 PM
17 hrs ago

maxsolomon

(38,525 posts)
29. If it wasn't RFK Jr it would have been another clown like Dr. Oz or some Covid Conspiracy nut
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:07 PM
23 hrs ago

NIH was always going to be wrecked by MFer, in retaliation for Fauci.

AZJonnie

(3,447 posts)
31. Look up "HTML encoding" to fix links that break like this in the future if you want :)
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:12 PM
23 hrs ago

THE. BILLIONAIRES. WANT. TO. KILL. US.

Couldn't be more obvious

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
33. Thanks!
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:30 PM
22 hrs ago

And I agree that the billionaires - the ones causing so much trouble, anyway - want to kill us.

Those villains don't think they need very many of us, and they sure as hell don't want to share any of the wealth they expropriated from the less wealthy.

AZJonnie

(3,447 posts)
36. No problem sistah! 👍
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:40 PM
22 hrs ago

Also HTML encoding is also how you can get the emoji I put in the subject line, and many others

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_emojis.asp

On DU this encoding only survives one save though, if you try to edit your post, or even preview it, it will break.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,164 posts)
38. Yup. People will die because of this
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:47 PM
22 hrs ago

And they will be disproportionately elderly, non-white and/or female. Meanwhile, Dr. Oz says our GDP would go up if more senior citizens worked another year before retiring or more young people delayed going to college and just worked at a shitty job for a year or two.

3catwoman3

(29,137 posts)
39. Secretary Brainworm's thing about "shared decision making" for vaccines really irks me.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:49 PM
22 hrs ago

Does he think that staff pediatric offices just walk into an exam room and inject a child without so much as a by-your-leave?

We have extensive discussions with parents. Information sheets are given and reviewed. Questions are answered. Informed consent/permission forms are signed by parents. Every time.

Doodley

(11,830 posts)
53. There is no surprise about anything Kennedy does. Those that confirmed him have no excuse.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 04:23 PM
19 hrs ago

bmichaelh

(1,131 posts)
55. Means is an ally of RFK Jr.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 04:38 PM
19 hrs ago

We will see if the senators who regretted voted for RFK Jr will do the right thing in regard to his surgeon general's pick.

She and her brother are allies of RFK Jr.

Voting for her is a vote for RFK Jr.

Trump has nominated someone that is not even a practicing physician.

Reminds me of the line from Shakespeare's Macbeth that describes an upside-down world.
May also describe the Trump administration.

Fair is foul and foul is fair.

Skittles

(170,667 posts)
61. SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:34 PM
14 hrs ago
WHAT EXACTLY is the INCENTIVE for repukes to fuck with PUBLIC HEALTH - WHAT?!?!?!

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
63. Getting rid of people who might be on Social Security, Medicaid, or any government program repukes
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:45 PM
14 hrs ago

would like to cut.

Skittles

(170,667 posts)
64. but....fucking with vaccines
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:47 PM
14 hrs ago

that can kill CHILDREN

fucking with CANCER research - that affects ALL AGES

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
65. They assume they'll still have good medical care. That mostly the poor will suffer and die.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:49 PM
14 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(61,297 posts)
69. Most self-professed Christians I know don't follow Christ's teachings very well, either.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 10:10 PM
14 hrs ago

OMGWTF

(5,061 posts)
62. No worries, T💩p's Surgeon General nominee is a medical school dropout.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:44 PM
14 hrs ago

What could possibly go wrong in this Kakistocracy of psychopaths?

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