In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.

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    May he suffer personally in the same amount and degree of suffering, mortality, and morbidity as he is creating.

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    Ah yes, the well known scientific method of rejecting findings that don’t support your hypothesis.

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      He claims to have doubts about the study’s methodology. But he has no science education, so he’s not qualified to judge that.

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      “I reject your reality and substitute my own”, but in a way that’s cruel and tragic instead of cheeky and fun

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    The thing about this guy that gets me is I can’t see any logical meanings for his actions. You know with others what it is… .greed, power, racism. This guy though, I don’t see a reason that I can glom on to for his motives. There’s some deep developmental stuff and some great quantity of brain damage from partying. If anyone can enlighten me I’d be interested.

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      He has brain damage due to a parasite that formed cysts in his brain as well as mercury poisoning. What more information do you need to explain his behavior?

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    This is not new. He’s been harping about how dangerous and terrible scientific journals are for years and has said numerous times he’s going to try and shut down some of the leading ones. And I have no doubt he will succeed at least with a few. We are rocketing past Idiocracy at this point.

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    In an opinion piece published on TrialSite News on 1 August, Kennedy called into question the study’s methodology, analysis and results.

    All of course based on his extensive knowledge and experience in the field of vaccines, and of course on the other papers he did showing evidence against this… right?

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    Of course it did. It’s an existential threat to the journal if it just takes shit down when someone asks