More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary
More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary
Their letter calls the choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is known for promoting false medical claims, “a slap in the face” to health care professionals.
Summary
Over 15,000 doctors, through the Committee to Protect Health Care, urged the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services, citing his anti-vaccine advocacy, promotion of conspiracy theories, and lack of qualifications.
Critics, including Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, warn his leadership would endanger public health. Supporters claim opposition is driven by pharmaceutical interests.
Kennedy’s confirmation would require near-unanimous Republican support in the Senate.
Advocacy groups are campaigning against his appointment, emphasizing his alleged role in spreading misinformation during past public health crises.
It's funny that doctors believe republicans care about their opinion. See Dr. Anthony Fauci for reference.
I cannot believe there is even consideration about giving him preemptive pardon.
Like, it's not even clear what possible crime he committed, but since they might go after him we should issue a pardon just in case.
Many of them have been whipped up into a murderous frenzy over Fauci. Now, that's the dumbasses yokels in the deplorable base. How many of the elites in the qon power structure want to go after him, who knows. I"m sure donvict had his feelings hurt about something related to Fauci because Fauci is part of the reality-based community, so maybe he might let it happen.
See Dr. Anthony Fauci for reference.
My god, the crimes committed against that man after all he has done for this ungrateful country are just absolutely unforgivable.
To run the NIAID and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom FROM George W. Bush, should have been enough. I have learned the masses are fucking stupid literal sheep.
You know what, you have to respect them for trying. The alternative is staying silent and accepting this without any show of resistance at all.
Many of them seriously would love to see him literally hanged alongside Biden, Kamala, Pence, Obama, Hillary....the dumbasses are all convinced he did something wrong to donvict, themselves, the country. You know, because, repeat after me, like all good parrots do: "gain of function! gain of function!"
They should try bribing the Republicans, that's how you get results.
Don't you mean make a donation to the pac?
Doctors are about to get the climate scientist treatment. It’s not a Cassandra curse. It’s not that they don’t believe you. They just don’t see the consequences affecting them personally, so they don’t care.
Also, the dumbasses seem to think using terms like "herd immunity" only confirms the garbage that the likes of Alex Jones is filling their empty heads with. "Herd immunity! That's how the global elites think about all of us! Just a herd to be culled until there is only 500,000,000 people on the planet, just like the Georgia Guidestones says!"
The only thing he's right about is the junk we have in our food and chemicals that are banned in the EU but allowed to be in our food
That’s the sad thing. RFK is “right” about a lot, not just about health but about what happened in the election, but that doesn’t make the bad bundled with him OK.
Some people are crazy or corrupt and should absolutely not hold office, but that doesn’t necessarily invalidate points they raise… But apparently we can’t have it that way. We go all in someone or bury, nothing in between
You are correct that it doesn’t necessarily invalidate points they raise. But if you’re dealing with somebody who is crazy or corrupt AND they represent the party famous for arguing in bad faith, it’s probably a waste of time to evaluate whether or not you can trust a given thing they say.
There are also many ingredients banned in the US that aren't in the EU. This trend of focusing on food ingredients misses the bigger picture.
While processed food is generally garbage, our food supply is generally safe, the real issue is healthy, whole foods aren't accessible enough.
And banning those advertisements.
And the EU allows food that we don't in ours, like Cyclamate. Raw milk and unwashed eggs are all perfectly legal too.
They're not perfect.
unwashed eggs are all perfectly legal too.
Becsuse washing eggs makes them spoil easier as it ruins the bloom which protects the eggs from pathogens.
The risk here is so non-existent, that I can safely eat my eggs raw. This is an official stance of the Finnish health authorities.
I trust them saying that.
But if RFK said that about American eggs, I would laugh out loud.
Most American bread sold here has to be marketed as dessert, because of the high sugar content. I mean, there really isn't demand for it, but you'll sometimes see some in some novel "America" shelves/sections.
Their eggs are fine.
That’s great and all, but it’s not going to happen. In fact, all the hate will only cause him to grow even stronger and dumber.
The man's face looks like the outward end of a constipated turd. I don't think you can pack more shit in there.
Quick question. Honest question. How many doctors are there in the USA? I feel like this headline could have been more impactful if it gave an idea of what percentage of the medical field feels this way. 15,000 doctors, across all 50 states......maybe I'm wrong, this is just a gut feeling based on nothing, but that seems low. Feels like some of the bigger states could have 15,000 doctors by themselves.
I'm not in any way defending RFK. I'm just saying this particular story seems like a non-story at those numbers.
Yeah, there’s about a million, so this is ~1.5%
As a person who's organized petitions for widely felt issues, the impact isn't strictly from a raw percentage of participation (though it's a significant factor when that number is large). The impact comes from the number of people involved. Of the roughly 1 million doctors in the country, 1% were so against the concept that they chose to take direct action.
If that many people were moved to action, how many are against it but not ready or willing to fight? How many felt it wouldn't matter if they signed? How many more didn't hear about it?
Lol, imagine the incoming senate actually listening to the rabble.
Okay but imagine that do...
Then we get reminded that Senate approval is a formality when he puts RFK there anyways
Does the health insurance industry, a criminal syndicate, support the nutter RFK?
The math is easy on that one: RFK is against vaccines & drug treatments and seems to disagree with much of modern, science-based medicine. If all of that stuff, in the eyes of the CDC, becomes "unnecessary," then the insurance industry will be able to deny a lot more coverage, followed by the C-suite scheduling of "money fight Fridays."
Apparently they didn't follow trump the first time around. The surest way to get him to do something is to tell him not to.
"All those doctors are a buncha elitists, I tell ya! I'm on the macho manly carnivore diet and even the know-it-all doc says I only need THREE statins!"
Meanwhile, the qons will just consider that the libz have been owned.