Arthur Allen

The Covid ‘Contrarians’ Are in Power. We Still Haven’t Hashed Out Whether They Were Right. https://t.co/AO5rtyidiw via @kffhealthnews

Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate https://t.co/zAnaANB0mp via @kffhealthnews

https://t.co/hvFImiSKH9 The NPS has stricken the "T" and "Q" from LGBTQ in the writing on this site. A blatant falsification of history -- many trans people were involved in Stonewall. Laughable if it weren't so gut-wrenchingly cruel. Comment on the site!

Trump Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid Still in Place, Despite Administration Claims https://t.co/6t3Y5cPiNl

RFKJr# finale from Cassidy: 2 kids died of vax-prevented disease in La. in last month. My responsibility is to assess, can you be trusted? Will you improve the health of americans or hurt it by constantly demanding new evidence and never accepting it? Will u turn over new leaf?

Hearing closes with #RFKJr and Bernie arguing -- RFKJr attacking Sanders on taking money from drug co. employees in his campaigns and Sanders tries to get RFKJr. to explain how MAHA is really going to MAHA.

#RFKJr says he'll apologize for antivax comments if they'll show him data. Cassidy presents a 2014 meta-analysis, "MMR not associated with autism," 1.2 million kids' data reviewed. This was shown to you, Cassidy sez. RFKJr says there are other studies. "I'll follow the science...

#RFKJr tells key vote Collins that NIH is an incubator for the pharma industry. not enough studies of etiology of chronic disease. People aren't vaccinating because they don't trust the government, he says. "I'll restore trust and restore vaccine uptake," he says. (!!)

#RFKJr defends statment that Blacks should get different vaccines because they have "stronger" immune systems. They need fewer antigens, he says. "Which vaccines should I have gotten?" Alsobrooks asks. She says his comments are dangerous. "Is science dangerous?" he replies.

#RFKJr told Alsobrooks that he will replace "bad" scientists with "good" scientists. Good scientists replicate studies, publish raw data and their peer reviews, he says.

Per her questions, Murkowsi, a key vote, seems to be considering an #RFKJr yes. Lobbing a softball on funding for Native Americans.

"We need to shake some things up but we also have to give a level of confidence," Murkowski tells #rfkjr. Doubts about vax safety don't help. State just had whooping cough outbreak. now measles scare. 'we can't be going backward for vax that allow this level of protection.'

Sen Markey says Samoa measles episode disqualifies #RFKJr. 75 nobel prize winners oppose him. “Look at their conflicts,” and “who funded that campaign,” RFKJr responds.

#RFKJr thinks 99% of americans -- bit of an exaggeration there - went to get the first covid vaccine. uptake of boosters low because of lack of trust, he says. In other countries trust higher, vax uptake higher.

#hickenlooper unlike other Dems is exceedingly polite to Kennedy.

#RFKjr repeats that there is "almost nothing" in NIH budget for study of environmental toxins that he says cause obesity. We need to start studying causes of heart disease, diabetes etc., he says. NIH agenda is set by "mercantile" interests of food and drug industry.

#RFKJr speaks of "shocking and unacceptable disparities in minority health." Vague on how he'd manage Trump ban on DEI programs.