I agree with Paul. I'm sitting here recalling an aphorism uttered by the Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School in his welcoming remarks to us on Day One, way back in 1972: "You will learn, among many other things, that there are more horse's asses in the world than there are horses".
Yes, it seems so. That explains the upvotes I am getting and the vaccination friendly responses I'm seeing from that source. There is also someone called Aldous Blackwoif.
"Uncontrolled screaming in an infant for three hours or longer with a high-pitched moan IS the diagnostic marker for encephalitis."
No it is not.
Any painful condition could make an infant scream.
Encephalitis is diagnosed by clinical signs of specific cerebral irritation and inflammation; these may include seizures, drowsiness, coma and focal neurological symptoms. Diagnosis confirmation requires the use of neuroimaging (CT/MRI scanning), an EEG, and a lumbar puncture.
It is also not a diagnosis made by a medically ignorant mother, let alone a family doctor.
You thought your daughter had encephalitis, but it was so bad that you never even took her to see a doctor or to the ER. Amazing!!!!
Kennedy is a worm-brained, child hating, anti-science, lying, two-faced, grifting, pathetic, misogynistic, incompetent, unintelligent loser.
He doesn't care if children die from infectious diseases. He doesn't care about the children with autism. He pretends to care about. All he wants is the lawsuit money billions that he thinks he can win once he produces fake science purporting to show that vaccines cause autism in every chronic illness under the sun. Not on my watch.
"Russia went to war to protect ethnic Russians in Crimea and the Donbas, many of whom were being abused or killed by the Ukraine. ...
And putin hoped to denazify the Ukraine, which has many Nazis.. Russia won. Zelensky cares nothing about human life. Europe realizes that it can’t contend with Russia and there’s no point."
No clue why that link was there but I can attest that Dr. Streicher is brilliant! I recently had a patient seen in our clinic for follow up to an ED visit to remove a full soda can that had been in her vagina for two weeks. I am not making this up.
Perhaps if she hadn't had a history of childhood sexual trauma and assault, she wouldn't have "consented" to having a partner put a soda can in her vagina as part of their sex play.
I believe it. Some decades ago a friend who was a rad tech brought home an xray of a trailer ball hitch attached to a water bottle inside someone. That was one of the most enlightening visuals I ever saw in my life, RIP my innocence.
It looks like the duplicate Cia Parker account has been deleted. A pity because it was making far more sense and actually saying stuff that wasn't just a pack of blatant lies.
And vaccines have been studied all over the world to not trigger autism genes. But RFK is spending 100s of millions to prove they do instead of looking to other possibilities. there are many that need study, including early gestational period nutrient deficiency. Should we supplement for?
Thank you, Dr Offit for speaking the truth and trying to save the children and adults that trump, RFK,jr. and the GOP are trying to kill through malignant incompetence and outright ignorance.
It would be really, really nice if the text of the email received could be linked to for sharing on social media like Blue Sky or Reddit, etc.. The links provided in the email take the reader instead to some different on You Tube. I believe the message and support Paul's work. Please help readers/subscribers share the message more effectively.
Indeed. The increasing prevalence of chronic disease is largely the result of us living twice as long and that is largely the result of scientific advances like vaccinations. The irony.
I am so grateful for this site....the sense that we are on our own, with the "guidance" from RFK is upsetting. I am an RN that relies on WHO and CDC for information. (As we all do ). The funding and tracking that was once a bit taken for granted, cannot miss even a weeks time worth of Data. I will have this site on my favorites and share it with other colleagues.
Hopefully Paul the globally congruent data from other nations where these tools are being deployed will help energise the American healthcare sector into more direct action - because it’s not only ethically responsible, but financially too! Cheaper and safer to immunise mothers, and/or use monoclonal antibodies than treat thousands annually when it can be avoided! The scourge of bronchiolitis in the very young can be a terrifying ordeal for both families AND medicos!
And I await some expected data on the reduction in RSV-related pathology in the elderly cohort too - pity the vaccine is so costly for a high risk group to carry!
I'm assuming that the CDC has a different method of communication directly to physicians? How does the CDC communicate the results of this most recent study directly to pediatricians and obstetricians? They are the ones who can then transfer to this information to their patients.
The main couple of ways are via things like the Health Alert Network which comm7nicates urgent alerts and the MMWR which provides weekly scientific health updates and surveillance data.
Unfortunately these have both come under censorship with Trump/Kennedy, and have not been allowed to publish anything useful like bird flu updates or other restricted material.
Clinicians can also sign up for Emails and RSS feeds.
The infectious disease wing of medicine has controlled the agenda of health for many years and the status of the nation’s health is terrible. Time to focus on chronic health issues. That’s all RFK means by giving infectious disease a break.
But the vaccines are probably 10x the cause of any disease. Case in point look at how sick the vaccinated are after these covid shots. Look covid in a pigs eye, more like long vaxx.
Scott Adams is an uneducated antivax fool, but he didn't deserve to get terminal prostate cancer. I hope he reflects on the death and destruction he has helped cause during the time he has left.
You just make stuff up. The population is sicker. 1600x more deadly probably for those people that are not yet “fully vaccinated”, you know the ones, the ones that were somewhere between their first shot and 14 days after their second shot. It must suck having to be on the side that is rooted in fake reports from manipulated stats, ah but that’s why you get the big bucks.
Did he say he’d give infectious diseases a break? If he did he is pretty dumb to make such a statement open to misinterpretation. If what he meant was he’d shift focus away from infections onto what he really wants to do (removing red dye from foods etc), then he should have said that. But this isn’t a question of doing one thing at the expense of another; there’s plenty of gas in the tank to travel both roads.
Then why is he doing ginormous cuts in ID research? It's because he believes in MIASMA theory! Germs are BS. Want to know why you live longer? It's not your Food and injection of Anabolic Steroids. It's because of ID research! The same research that generates over $5 of economic good for every $1 spent. Not only is RFK making us less healthy, hes making us poorer!
No one wants to take away drugs or vaccines from anyone that wants them, it’s a free world to decide, right? Same goes for those that don’t want them it has to be a choice. Just saying once people are educated in the true risks from the diseases that we are indoctrinated to fear so much (the picture that is painted would be from around 1800), and educated in the methods that vaccines have been developed and tested and how complications from them have been recorded and reported (buried) over all these years, a lot more will take a pass.
An article in NEJM today, "An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination", May 20, 2025 Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., and Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H. states "There may even be a ripple effect: public trust in vaccination in general has declined, resulting in a reluctance to vaccinate that is affecting even vital immunization programs such as that for measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination, which has been clearly established as safe and highly effective. In recent years, reduced MMR vaccination rates have been a growing concern and have contributed to serious illness and deaths from measles."
It couldn't really be "in line" with bobby's bullshit, because he is bat shit crazy, and spews outright falsehoods constantly. It's in line with bobby, in that it's deceitfully contrarian, relying on misleading and unsubstantiated claims.
It is not an "article." It's an opinion piece by two shit-flinging contrarian boss monkeys, upending science-based policy by edict. Radical transparency; "Because I said so!"
The NEJM opinion piece borrows from previous Makary fuckery;
So did Kennedy recently but then he followed up lying about that vaccine saying that it causes deaths every year (false), that it causes the same symptoms as the infection (false), and that the infection protects against CVD and cancer (false). It pays for politicians, and those with political ambitions, to try to please everyone at least to some degree.
I agree with Paul. I'm sitting here recalling an aphorism uttered by the Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School in his welcoming remarks to us on Day One, way back in 1972: "You will learn, among many other things, that there are more horse's asses in the world than there are horses".
Unfortunately Dr. Lee one of the biggest horses asses now runs Health and Human Services, RFK Jr.
Thanks for another great post. Keeps getting scarier and scarier. I’m glad you are there as a voice of reason in all of this. Keep speaking out.
You are welcome. And gracious, unlike some here.
Cia Parker <-- this creature is Pinocchoio "picknose" Parker. It lies about vaccines, and has devoted itself to killing our infants and children.
The current “Cia Parker” seems to be a sockie of someone who has stolen her nym.
Yes, it seems so. That explains the upvotes I am getting and the vaccination friendly responses I'm seeing from that source. There is also someone called Aldous Blackwoif.
Pinocchio "picknose" Parker seems to be in urgent need of psychiatric help if the latest offering is any indication.
I will just note that the account is guilty of the "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" fallacy in this limp offering.
"Uncontrolled screaming in an infant for three hours or longer with a high-pitched moan IS the diagnostic marker for encephalitis."
No it is not.
Any painful condition could make an infant scream.
Encephalitis is diagnosed by clinical signs of specific cerebral irritation and inflammation; these may include seizures, drowsiness, coma and focal neurological symptoms. Diagnosis confirmation requires the use of neuroimaging (CT/MRI scanning), an EEG, and a lumbar puncture.
It is also not a diagnosis made by a medically ignorant mother, let alone a family doctor.
You thought your daughter had encephalitis, but it was so bad that you never even took her to see a doctor or to the ER. Amazing!!!!
The current “Cia Parker” seems to be a sockie of someone who has stolen her nym or someone is hacking some of her comments.
Did you write this sub stack article, not Dr Offit? Why are you saying I am welcome?
Kennedy is a worm-brained, child hating, anti-science, lying, two-faced, grifting, pathetic, misogynistic, incompetent, unintelligent loser.
He doesn't care if children die from infectious diseases. He doesn't care about the children with autism. He pretends to care about. All he wants is the lawsuit money billions that he thinks he can win once he produces fake science purporting to show that vaccines cause autism in every chronic illness under the sun. Not on my watch.
You are far too kind to this scoundrel.
I agree that your mind is polluted with lies, delusions, and filth. Research that.
THIS DISGUSTING CREATURE IS PINOCCHIO "PICKNOSE" PARKER.
It is a science illiterate antivaxxer lying about vaccination injuries to family members.
Absolutely disgusting behaviour
THIS PERSON IS SPREADING MISINFORMATION THAT IS KILLING OUR CHILDREN.
LIE:
"pertussis can be dangerous to a small number of infants it cannot be fatal".
FACT:
The case-fatality rate in unvaccinated infants under 6 months of age is approximately 1 in 125 in the absence of maternal vaccination.
LIE:
"At that age, they are too young to be vaccinated"
FACT:
The pertussis vaccine is given a 2, 4, and 6 months
(boosters: 18 months, 4 years, 12 years, 50 years, 65 years, during each pregnancy between 20 and 32 weeks gestation).
LIE:
"even several doses confer little or no protection to babies"
FACT:
Pertussis vaccination reduces the risk of pertussis infection by approximately 85% in children who receive the full schedule.
LIE:
"The vaccine causes inability to get permanent immunity from recovering from the disease"
FACT:
Vaccination does not prevent the ability of infection to generate immunity.
Infection-induced immunity ("survivor immuniity") does not provide lifelong protection against pertussis.
Both infection and vaccination lead to waning immunity over time.
LIE:
"Better to get the natural disease past infancy and never get the vaccine"
FACT:
Mortality rate of the infection: 1 in 125.
Mortlaity rate of the vaccine: far less than 1 in a million.
THIS PERSON IS SPREADING MISINFORMATION THAT IS KILLING OUR CHILDREN.
You and others who wish death upon infants disgust me.
Povocative Parker plays for Russkiy Mir. Stir it up Cia; rancor is good.
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/wars-and-rumors-of-wars-4-major-global/comment/118274653
"Russia went to war to protect ethnic Russians in Crimea and the Donbas, many of whom were being abused or killed by the Ukraine. ...
And putin hoped to denazify the Ukraine, which has many Nazis.. Russia won. Zelensky cares nothing about human life. Europe realizes that it can’t contend with Russia and there’s no point."
Genes load the gun, vaccines pull the trigger. Yada, yada ...
https://drstreicher.substack.com/p/things-to-not-put-in-your-vagina
No genetic condition causes screaming for four days and nights and then it stops, and so on.
not sure what relevance the link has, but it was interesting!
No clue why that link was there but I can attest that Dr. Streicher is brilliant! I recently had a patient seen in our clinic for follow up to an ED visit to remove a full soda can that had been in her vagina for two weeks. I am not making this up.
Wouldn't it be flat after a week?
Unopened. THey actually punctured and drained it hoping to be able to collapse it just enough to grab on to it but no dice, she had to go to surgery.
Perhaps if she had been diligent about her kegel exercises and yoga, she could have helped more.
Perhaps if she hadn't had a history of childhood sexual trauma and assault, she wouldn't have "consented" to having a partner put a soda can in her vagina as part of their sex play.
I believe it. Some decades ago a friend who was a rad tech brought home an xray of a trailer ball hitch attached to a water bottle inside someone. That was one of the most enlightening visuals I ever saw in my life, RIP my innocence.
You wouldn't know a gene if it bought you dinner, flowers, chocolate roses and called you a cab in the morning. Go away you anti science freak
Your ignorance of science hurts much more.
Cia Parker <-- this creature is Pinocchoio "picknose" Parker. It lies about vaccines, and has devoted itself to killing our infants and children.
NONE OF WHAT THIS CREATURE SAYS IS ACTUALLY TRUE.
I don't believe you, I think you and Beth are the same Troll.
No, you are a disgusting arsehole spreading misinformation that is killing our infants and children.
It looks like the duplicate Cia Parker account has been deleted. A pity because it was making far more sense and actually saying stuff that wasn't just a pack of blatant lies.
By that logic, there would be no autism among the unvaxxed and we know that’s not the case.
Shill Pharma-Phil chimes in with woke "epidemiology"
Trust the science, egghead
That makes no sense whatsoever. Completely unequivocal.
And vaccines have been studied all over the world to not trigger autism genes. But RFK is spending 100s of millions to prove they do instead of looking to other possibilities. there are many that need study, including early gestational period nutrient deficiency. Should we supplement for?
Thank you
Oh, ffs, give it a rest
Blocked and muted.
RFK is the worse thing to happen to Americans health since COVID 19 entered the scene. Why isn’t there more outrage, Dr Cassidy, you first?
Thank you, Dr Offit for speaking the truth and trying to save the children and adults that trump, RFK,jr. and the GOP are trying to kill through malignant incompetence and outright ignorance.
It would be really, really nice if the text of the email received could be linked to for sharing on social media like Blue Sky or Reddit, etc.. The links provided in the email take the reader instead to some different on You Tube. I believe the message and support Paul's work. Please help readers/subscribers share the message more effectively.
RFK: “Make America Healthy Again - Die Young”
Indeed. The increasing prevalence of chronic disease is largely the result of us living twice as long and that is largely the result of scientific advances like vaccinations. The irony.
Thanks Dr. Offit, keep ‘em coming and ignore the flat earthers.
Big Wellness Shill says what?
Ignore the Black Dog.
Hello there,
I am so grateful for this site....the sense that we are on our own, with the "guidance" from RFK is upsetting. I am an RN that relies on WHO and CDC for information. (As we all do ). The funding and tracking that was once a bit taken for granted, cannot miss even a weeks time worth of Data. I will have this site on my favorites and share it with other colleagues.
Many many thanks.....Bernie RN
UK MHRA website is excellent, and NHS, Office for National Statistics, and others. Health Canada and Australia TGA too.
Hopefully Paul the globally congruent data from other nations where these tools are being deployed will help energise the American healthcare sector into more direct action - because it’s not only ethically responsible, but financially too! Cheaper and safer to immunise mothers, and/or use monoclonal antibodies than treat thousands annually when it can be avoided! The scourge of bronchiolitis in the very young can be a terrifying ordeal for both families AND medicos!
And I await some expected data on the reduction in RSV-related pathology in the elderly cohort too - pity the vaccine is so costly for a high risk group to carry!
I'm assuming that the CDC has a different method of communication directly to physicians? How does the CDC communicate the results of this most recent study directly to pediatricians and obstetricians? They are the ones who can then transfer to this information to their patients.
The main couple of ways are via things like the Health Alert Network which comm7nicates urgent alerts and the MMWR which provides weekly scientific health updates and surveillance data.
Unfortunately these have both come under censorship with Trump/Kennedy, and have not been allowed to publish anything useful like bird flu updates or other restricted material.
Clinicians can also sign up for Emails and RSS feeds.
The infectious disease wing of medicine has controlled the agenda of health for many years and the status of the nation’s health is terrible. Time to focus on chronic health issues. That’s all RFK means by giving infectious disease a break.
"Time to focus on chronic health issues."
Too stupid for words.
Focussing on chronic disease means focussing on the causes. Infectious diseases are one of the causes of chronic disease.
But what would a silly thin like you know?
But the vaccines are probably 10x the cause of any disease. Case in point look at how sick the vaccinated are after these covid shots. Look covid in a pigs eye, more like long vaxx.
No one wants to hear from a sex offender Dag. Even if none of your offenses were first degree.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/i-expect-to-die-this-summer-cartoonist-scott-adams-reveals-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-same-as-joe-biden/articleshow/121282484.cms
It’s a real shame to have this happen to an American treasure, you can bet he regrets trusting the people that said safe and effective.
Scott Adams is an uneducated antivax fool, but he didn't deserve to get terminal prostate cancer. I hope he reflects on the death and destruction he has helped cause during the time he has left.
https://x.com/_aussie17/status/1616958938712535040?s=46
I don’t think he was anti vaxx. He campaigned hard for the shots until he didn’t, likely when he caught cancer from them.
When you know the cone heads have lost the debate, the fake personal attacks is all they have left. You just have to love it.
"When you know the cone heads have lost the debate, the fake personal attacks is all they have left."
Yeah, the silly Dag actually said that!
Correction of the Dag's lies:
- the COVID-19 infection was at least 1600 times more lethal than the vaccination.
- that also applies to the morbidity caused by the infection.
- anecdotes are not evidence.
- looking a pig in the eye is looking a dag in the eye.
You just make stuff up. The population is sicker. 1600x more deadly probably for those people that are not yet “fully vaccinated”, you know the ones, the ones that were somewhere between their first shot and 14 days after their second shot. It must suck having to be on the side that is rooted in fake reports from manipulated stats, ah but that’s why you get the big bucks.
Children in your neighborhood are 160 times more likely to be sexually abused than the BC average.
Hahaha, you guys are comedians, real weasels too.
Dag Waddell <-- "You just make stuff up"
Every accusation is an admission with a lying antivaxxer.
"The population is sicker..."
...because of the lasting effects of the infection.
" the ones that were somewhere between their first shot and 14 days after their second shot."
Nope. The research also compared vaccinated individuals from the day of their first dose with similar results.
How do you not know this?
"fake reports from manipulated stats"
Then why are they the same as the independent reports.
Here are the facts:
Mortality rate of:
- the infection: 1600 per million.
- the viral vector vaccines: 1 per million.
- the mRNA vaccines: far less than 1 per million.
The same applies of morbidity.
YOU ARE LYING AND YOU DON'T CARE EVEN WHEN IT CAUSES PEOPLE TO DIE.
Silly claim. Any reliable assessment would verify diseases cause more problems than do 5heir vaccines, maybe by a factor of a thousandfold or more.
Dag"Waddell is another Offit-paid Pharma groomer. Check BC and Alberta offender registries. These are his childrens toys. Racist too!
https://www.amazon.com/Doc-Johnson-Merci-Removable-Vac-U-Lock/dp/B0CVCXHTW1
Go away. You offer NOTHING insightful here--just your mealy lies....
Did he say he’d give infectious diseases a break? If he did he is pretty dumb to make such a statement open to misinterpretation. If what he meant was he’d shift focus away from infections onto what he really wants to do (removing red dye from foods etc), then he should have said that. But this isn’t a question of doing one thing at the expense of another; there’s plenty of gas in the tank to travel both roads.
Then why is he doing ginormous cuts in ID research? It's because he believes in MIASMA theory! Germs are BS. Want to know why you live longer? It's not your Food and injection of Anabolic Steroids. It's because of ID research! The same research that generates over $5 of economic good for every $1 spent. Not only is RFK making us less healthy, hes making us poorer!
Well everyone has to believe something. But it’s not a stretch to say the plumber did more for life expectancy than vaccines very did.
False equivalence.
Nobody here is making this a pissing contest between the different interventions other than you.
No one wants to take away drugs or vaccines from anyone that wants them, it’s a free world to decide, right? Same goes for those that don’t want them it has to be a choice. Just saying once people are educated in the true risks from the diseases that we are indoctrinated to fear so much (the picture that is painted would be from around 1800), and educated in the methods that vaccines have been developed and tested and how complications from them have been recorded and reported (buried) over all these years, a lot more will take a pass.
Paul - did you meet with senate and or house health committees ? What happened? Did I miss it ?
An article in NEJM today, "An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination", May 20, 2025 Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., and Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H. states "There may even be a ripple effect: public trust in vaccination in general has declined, resulting in a reluctance to vaccinate that is affecting even vital immunization programs such as that for measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination, which has been clearly established as safe and highly effective. In recent years, reduced MMR vaccination rates have been a growing concern and have contributed to serious illness and deaths from measles."
Does not seem to be in line with RFK, Jr.
It couldn't really be "in line" with bobby's bullshit, because he is bat shit crazy, and spews outright falsehoods constantly. It's in line with bobby, in that it's deceitfully contrarian, relying on misleading and unsubstantiated claims.
It is not an "article." It's an opinion piece by two shit-flinging contrarian boss monkeys, upending science-based policy by edict. Radical transparency; "Because I said so!"
The NEJM opinion piece borrows from previous Makary fuckery;
https://science.feedback.org/review/marty-makary-misleading-unsubstantiated-claims-accuse-us-government-spreading-misinformation/
These two doctors are unserious people. Their public comments do not match the contents and conclusions of the papers on which they are co-authors.
The public distrust in vaccination in general is the result of clowns like Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary performing clown acts on social media.
I thought it was strange for them to praise the MMR vaccine.
So did Kennedy recently but then he followed up lying about that vaccine saying that it causes deaths every year (false), that it causes the same symptoms as the infection (false), and that the infection protects against CVD and cancer (false). It pays for politicians, and those with political ambitions, to try to please everyone at least to some degree.
Sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.