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Dulcinea

(7,983 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:22 PM Dec 13

Kennedy's lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine

CNN--President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top heath agency has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the vaccine used in the United States.

The lawyer, Aaron Siri, filed the petition in 2022 on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN, a nonprofit that challenges the safety of vaccines and vaccine mandates. Siri has been working closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a vaccine skeptic and Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services – to choose officials to serve in the incoming administration. He was also Kennedy’s personal lawyer during his own presidential campaign.

“The FDA is continuing to review the petition,” an agency spokesperson said in an email to CNN on Friday. “We cannot predict when the reviews will be completed. The FDA will consider the concerns outlined in the petition as a final decision is made. The FDA will respond directly to the petitioner, and that response will be posted on the docket. Until such time, we cannot comment further.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/health/kennedy-lawyer-fda-polio-vaccine/index.html

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Kennedy's lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine (Original Post) Dulcinea Dec 13 OP

Committing manslaughter. yourout Dec 13 #1

It is premeditated with intent. Irish_Dem Dec 13 #4

Insanity. Absolutely disgusting and there better be a real backlash to these draconian policies Deuxcents Dec 13 #2

Siri has just found a way to make lot's of money. dgauss Dec 13 #3

yourout

(8,284 posts)

1. Committing manslaughter.

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Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:24 PM

Dec 13

Irish_Dem

(65,595 posts)

4. It is premeditated with intent.

Reply to yourout (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 11:11 PM

Dec 13

More than manslaughter.

Deuxcents

(21,268 posts)

2. Insanity. Absolutely disgusting and there better be a real backlash to these draconian policies

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Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:28 PM

Dec 13

dgauss

(1,272 posts)

3. Siri has just found a way to make lot's of money.

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:51 PM

Dec 13

He knows there is a lot of litigation coming on this one..

"Petitioner requests that the FDA withdraw or suspend the approval for [the polio vaccine] for infants, toddlers, and children until a properly controlled and properly powered double-blind trial of sufficient duration is conducted to assess the safety of this product," Siri wrote.

They're talking about Placebo studies. Let's halt polio vaccines and do this study. Give half the kids a sugar pill and half the kids the vaccine. If more of the kids who got the sugar pill die than the kids that got the actual vaccine, then ok. Maybe then RFK Jr will be satisfied and will deem the vaccines acceptable. Maybe not, but maybe. It's insane.

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