Quack Quack Quack Kennedy

[Swammerdami]

Well, my shingles vaccines barely made my arm sore. Maybe women are just tougher than men.

Regardless, a sore arm is far less painful than a case of shingles, actually known as herpes zoster. I've cared for a few people who had active cases. It usually causes severe pain, which sometimes remains after the rash clears up. So, be sure and get your second dosage if the one you had was just the first dosage. I would hate for any of my IIDB peers to suffer from shingles.

People with lung cancer, especially those undergoing chemotherapy, are at a higher risk of developing shingles (herpes zoster) due to weakened immune systems.

My wife lived for a year with lung cancer and chemo. The shingles were a major source of her pain.

 

[southernhybrid]

Antidepressants do make some people gain weight, but there are plenty of thin people who take them as well.

I disagree with RFK on a lot, but back in 2003 my doctor put me on Paxil. I was on them until 2016. I weighed 212 in 2003 and I weighed 270 in 2016. My new doctor told me he hates Paxil so after I came off it I read up on it. Possible side effect was a weight gain of 50 to 60 pounds.

As I said, some people do gain weight while taking antidepressants, but not everyone does. I had a patient who took them who weighed about 99 lbs. She also took too many narcotics for chronic pain, due to her stupid pain doctor.

Sorry you gained so much weight while taking Paxil. The only antidepressant I've ever taken is amitriptyline, aka Elavil. I didn't take it for depression. I took it for nocturia. It worked for several years and I never gained a lb. We are all very different when it comes to how we react to and metabolize medications. That may be what the idiot RFKjr. doesn't understand. And, doctors make mistakes all the time, but he's not even a doctor.

 

[Elixir]

We are all very different when it comes to how we react to and metabolize medications. That may be what the idiot RFKjr. doesn't understand.

Add it to the list?
The dude is a loose cannon, damaged goods.

 

[Axulus]

RFK Jr.’s massive cuts stun staff, leave senior employees scrambling
The cuts sent shockwaves through the department’s sprawling workforce, prompting a scramble among senior agency officials to figure out which employees and policy priorities were affected.

'I wouldn’t trust not one FDA-approved drug after they are done with us,' said an employee with the Food and Drug Administration."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/very-few-people-know-whats-happening-rfk-jr-cuts-surprise-and-alarm-00254822?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0fd-dd93-ad7f-f8fd63e30002

 

[Axulus]

The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned.

Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about Robert Kennedy Jr.:

"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/top-vaccine-official-out-at-fda-f39a5a16?st=xUFtwf&reflink=article_copyURL_share

 

[crazyfingers]

The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned.

Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about Robert Kennedy Jr.:

"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/top-vaccine-official-out-at-fda-f39a5a16?st=xUFtwf&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Politico story that's not behind a pay wall.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/top-fda-vaccine-regulator-peter-marks-pushed-out-00259290

In response, the lying sacks-o-shit at HHS said

In a statement to POLITICO, an HHS official said, “If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy.”

This is the usual MAGA bullshit of accusing people of doing what they do.

 

[crazyfingers]

OH wonderful, don't let your kid get the vaccine but give the kid toxic levels of vitamin A

The hospitalized children with the toxicity were all unvaccinated.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has centered his response to the outbreak on vitamin A, even suggesting in a Fox News interview that it could work “as a prophylaxis.”

But overuse of vitamin A can have serious health consequences, and there is no evidence that it can prevent measles.

Vitamin A has an important role in immunity and vision. It’s fat-soluble, so when someone takes too much, it can accumulate in organs like the liver. Excess vitamin A can cause dry skin and eyes, blurry vision, bone thinning, skin irritation, liver damage and other serious issues. In pregnant women, excess vitamin A can lead to birth defects.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/health/texas-measles-vitamin-a-toxicity/index.html?dicbo=v2-b90tPGO&hpt=ob_blogfooterold

 

[Shadowy Man]

OH wonderful, don't let your kid get the vaccine but give the kid toxic levels of vitamin A

The hospitalized children with the toxicity were all unvaccinated.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has centered his response to the outbreak on vitamin A, even suggesting in a Fox News interview that it could work “as a prophylaxis.”

But overuse of vitamin A can have serious health consequences, and there is no evidence that it can prevent measles.

Vitamin A has an important role in immunity and vision. It’s fat-soluble, so when someone takes too much, it can accumulate in organs like the liver. Excess vitamin A can cause dry skin and eyes, blurry vision, bone thinning, skin irritation, liver damage and other serious issues. In pregnant women, excess vitamin A can lead to birth defects.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/health/texas-measles-vitamin-a-toxicity/index.html?dicbo=v2-b90tPGO&hpt=ob_blogfooterold

Perfect timing for some snake oil salesman to make a bunch of money off vitamin A toxicity cures.

 

[crazyfingers]

RFK and his cohort in the lobotomy experiment decide to bury a CDC report on the growing Measles outbreak.

This week, though, as the number of confirmed cases rose to 483, more than 30 agency staff were told in an email that after a discussion in the CDC director’s office, “leadership does not want to pursue putting this on the website.”

The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming. “I’ve never seen a rollout plan that was canceled at that far along in the process.”

Anxiety among CDC staff has been building over whether the agency will bend its public health messages to match those of Kennedy, a lawyer who founded an anti-vaccine group and referred clients to a law firm suing a vaccine manufacturer.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/health/cdc-measles-forecast-propublica/index.html

 

[Shadowy Man]

I'm sure it will go away by Easter.

The number of cases will soon be zero.

 

[barbos]

I disagree with RFK on a lot, but back in 2003 my doctor put me on Paxil.

 

[Swammerdami]

OH wonderful, don't let your kid get the vaccine but give the kid toxic levels of vitamin A

The hospitalized children with the toxicity were all unvaccinated.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has centered his response to the outbreak on vitamin A, even suggesting in a Fox News interview that it could work “as a prophylaxis.”

But overuse of vitamin A can have serious health consequences, and there is no evidence that it can prevent measles.

Vitamin A has an important role in immunity and vision. It’s fat-soluble, so when someone takes too much, it can accumulate in organs like the liver. Excess vitamin A can cause dry skin and eyes, blurry vision, bone thinning, skin irritation, liver damage and other serious issues. In pregnant women, excess vitamin A can lead to birth defects.

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I can't find a link to prove it right now, but recently RFK_Jr posted a screed against food components with long names. The VERY FIRST chemical on the list was Riboflavin. No idea if Mr. Brain_Worm knows that Riboflavin is just another name for Vitamin B2 but, unlike Vitamin A, high doses of B2 are almost completely benign:

[Side effect of Riboflavin: ] High doses (over 100 mg/day) [90 to 200 times the RDA] may cause bright yellow urine.

With all the boo-boos in the last week, is sentiment turning against the Bloated Brat? Over the most recent seven-day period, total approval has fallen from 51% to 49% -- still high enough to re-elect him, especially since "named Democrat" would undoubtedly fare worse than "generic Democrat."

 

[ZiprHead]

I disagree with RFK on a lot, but back in 2003 my doctor put me on Paxil.

A quack marketing his "taper off" service.

 

[barbos]

I disagree with RFK on a lot, but back in 2003 my doctor put me on Paxil.

A quack marketing his "taper off" service.

More quack than having half of the population on anti-depressants?

 

[ZiprHead]

I disagree with RFK on a lot, but back in 2003 my doctor put me on Paxil.

A quack marketing his "taper off" service.

More quack than having half of the population on anti-depressants?

Half???

Summary. During 2015–2018, 13.2% of Americans aged 18 and over reported taking antidepressant medication in the past 30 days. Antidepressant use was higher among women than men in every age group. Use increased with age, in both men and women.

But Russia:

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1. Russia	16.29%	2.58%

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[barbos]

Half???

Closer to half than the number it should have been.

But Russia:

has less alcoholism than Baltic States, and doctors in Russia usually do not prescribe alcohol.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I did ask the person who injected us if she had heard of any way to lesson the soreness or if the soreness was less if the injection was given in the dominant arm. She laughed and said she had never heard of that, so who knows. I went ahead and had the vaccine in my less dominant are again. Two days later, the soreness is gone.

If there is such a thing as another vaccine I'm going to try the dominant arm bit. I don't tend to use my dominant arm that much more than the other, though, most things I do either do not have much to do with using the arm (for example, operating my trackball--a finger task far more than an arm task), or involve using both arms.

Let me add that I've read there is some evidence that autism is more common when a father is older. Fresh sperm, with old equipment. The jury is still out on all of the causes, but autism has nothing to do with vaccines. Plus, it's likely that milder cases of autism were never even diagnosed in previous decades. I think in retrospect that a classmate of mine in grammar school likely had some mild form of autism, but we all thought, despite liking the kid, that he was just a little bit weird. Nothing wrong with that. Being different is better than being like everyone else, imo. The only person I knew who was extremely autistic and totally dependent on others, had a mother who used many strong, dangerous recreational drugs when she was pregnant. That is likely another cause.

I've seen suggestions on this, but nowhere near enough to identify causes yet.

I do agree that milder forms were not diagnosed, and there was also the issue of the more severe cases often being misdiagnosed. (Autism + retarded) is a lot smoother than either individually, which says there's a binning problem.

Imo, a lot of obesity is probably related to eating in restaurants on a regular basis, like so many Americans do these days. If you look at the caloric content of most restaurant foods, that is understandable. When I go to a buffet, I am very careful what I eat, mostly vegetables and high fiber foods. But, there are always obese folks there who have multiple plates of food, including lots of friend foods and sweets. When I have pizza out, I get the smallest one without cheese, but I see folks eating the largest size covered with a thick layer of cheese. These people are usually very obese. It's easier to eat healthier at home if you put you mind to it, not everyone can do that. If I gain a lb. I cut back on how much I eat for a day or two. It takes discipline to maintain a healthy weight these days, not everyone has that. Still, different things work for different people.

Yeah, restaurant food tends to taste good--because it's wildly unhealthy.

And, when I was young, people were far more active compared to now. Children were outside playing, running and walking all day long. We walked to school and played games outside. I almost never see kids playing outside these days. The age of the free range child is over.

Definitely agree. I can't recall seeing a younger kid alone, period. I found it quite unusual when I encountered a tween girl apparently alone in/around a park.

RFKjr doesn't have a clue as to why people are obese. The man isn't mentally stable imo. Sure it would be good to have fewer processed foods, but plenty of fresh foods are available now. There are even frozen dinners that are healthy with few or any unhealthy chemicals added, like Amy's Vegan meals, so we have lots of choices. Beans are very cheap, healthy and tasty if you make them correctly. It's just hard for people to change their habits and a lot of people are clueless when it comes to nutrition.

Fixed.

Sorry for the nutrition lecture, but it pisses me off when people think RFKjr is going to make anyone healthier or that decreasing processed foods is going to make everyone thinner. Once eating habits are established they can be hard to change.

Yup. At this point all fat-bearing food will upset my body to some degree. I actually intentionally choose some "unhealthy" stuff as ways to get fat with minimal reaction.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

How would you reduce autism and obesity? How would you increase average lifespans for the average American? How would you reduce medical costs but deliver better health? These are serious issues the medical establishment is failing by any standard.

Is RFK reaaly a quack or are we being duped again by more propaganda? I dont know but maybe we should let the quacks give it a try for 4 years to see if anything gets better. Trying something different is actually a scientific approach to discovery. Because our healthcare can't get any worse than it already is today.

Autism? Simple: go back to diagnosing it as mental retardation.

I'd rather want conservatism to be classified as mental retardation.

I think it's a subclass of those who see the world in an overly simplistic manner.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Just heard this morning the Mennonite woman whose child died from the measles said the same thing, it was god's will, and she is still telling people to not get the vax.

Religion is a mental illness.

Yeah, if my machine hadn't taken a dump I was going to post that one. How can losing a child not be all that bad because the rest survived???

 

[Loren Pechtel]

And there are PLENTY of average and underweight people that have type II diabetes. Insulin resistance leads to obesity, not the other way around.

Disagree. Obesity is a major factor in causing insulin resistance to develop. But it's not the only factor.