RFK Junior:
book reviews of The Real Anthony Fauci
I heard Russ Baker speak at the 2009 Coalition on Political Assassinations conference in Dallas (organized by John Judge). Nice to hear JFK assassination researchers pointing out that Junior is lying in his book about Dr. Fauci. It's good that RFK Junior finally came clean in 2013 about his lifelong understanding that the CIA killed his uncle - a fact that his father, Robert F. Kennedy (the original) privately knew to be true - but that understanding doesn't make his hoaxes about public health have any validity.
https://whowhatwhy.org/culture/rfk-jr-fans-defend-him-and-rebuke-me-for-challenging-his-views/
by Russ Baker
I find they provide a fascinating insight into a certain and potentially evolving mindset. In the future, I will explore the broader phenomenon underlying the critical messages. I'm struck by how a particular segment of our society — including some among WhoWhatWhy's readership — lashes out at anyone who says something they don't like, but in their response they address neither the substance of the issue nor provide any useful information.
Some of these people tell me that I'm not an expert on vaccines, based on their opinions … as nonexperts themselves. Typically, they base their opinions on trust alone, since they haven't the expertise to judge the evidence itself.
And how often do they try? When they read an assertion with a numbered footnote next to it, how often do they check to see if the source referenced actually supports the assertion?
Here's an example: On page 28 of his book — The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Kindle version) — RFK Jr., makes this claim:
Dr. Fauci's acolyte — CNN's television doctor, Peter Hotez — published an article in a scientific journal calling for legislation to "expand federal hate crime protections" to make criticism of Dr. Fauci a felony. (14)
Read the article referenced by footnote 14. Hotez was not talking about mere "criticism." He was talking about how scientists were being targeted by far-right extremists (some of whom are known to favor violence) — with various forms of intimidation, including stalking scientists to their homes. And he wanted "expanded protection mechanisms," possibly extending "federal hate-crime protection" for these scientists.
Kennedy goes on to claim, in passing, that Hotez said,
vaccine skeptics should be snuffed out (15)
Here's what the man actually said — only you wouldn't know it unless you checked the article referenced by footnote 15:
An American anti vaccine movement is building and we need to take steps now to snuff it out.
Meaning snuff out the movement, not people.
Dr. Dan Wilson, Debunk the Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-CQgi3GQk&t=470s
TWiV 1026: Debunking RFK Jr.'s vaccine funk with Dan Wilson
MicrobeTV
Jul 16, 2023
This Week in Virology
Dan Wilson returns to TWiV to debunk vaccine misinformation by RFK Jr. during his recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1026/
Junior praises quack for injecting BLEACH into patients
bleach kills pathogens in vitro but it's not a good idea in vivo
(same error made by the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine enthusiasts)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5TxLesI_kU&t=16s
RFK Jr. goes full HIV/AIDS denial in his terrible book about Anthony Fauci
Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson
Premiered May 31, 2022
Donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org...
Peter Deusberg is responsible for huge losses of life due to HIV/AIDS: https://journals.lww.com/jaids/Fullte...
Papers that demonstrate that HIV causes AIDS:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.73...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...
https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/F...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
Gallo and Montagnier's piece in the NEJM: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...
More isolation of HIV from AIDS patients: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
A protocol to isolate HIV form AIDS patients: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
How to test for HIV: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/hiv-te...
Original PCR patent that describes diagnostics as an application: https://patentimages.storage.googleap...
Kaposi's sarcoma basics: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...
Review of the mechanism of how HIV infects and kills CD4 T-cells: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
HIV is definitely real…didn't think I'd have to say that while reviewing this book: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
An example of how complicated correlates of protections against HIV is: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm080...
General reading on Koch's postulates: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
People who are infected by HIV and don't ever develop symptoms are called Elite suppressors: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
Beatrice Hanh's work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Retroviruses can definitely cause disease:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10591...
No, poppers don't cause AIDS, HIV does:
https://www.nature.com/articles/362103a0
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8095146/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
Kaposi's Sarcoma is caused by a virus that is allowed to replicate thanks to HIV: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/kaposi-...
HIV/AIDS disinformation debunked: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/H...
Non-HIV AIDS is clinically distinct from HIV-AIDS: https://academic.oup.com/jac/article/...
Christine Maggiore's story: https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-c...
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/whats-up-doc/
Summer 2022
What's Up, Doc?
by Theodore Dalrymple
If there is one lesson that the pandemic ought to have taught, it is intellectual modesty. Unfortunately, this is not the main characteristic of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s The Real Anthony Fauci. Kennedy refers to his career as a tort lawyer as if this stood as a guarantor of righteousness, and accordingly wherever bad motives can be imputed to those with whom he disagrees, he imputes them. He lives in a world in which there are fighters for truth (he and those with whom he agrees) and conspirators who are in the pay either of Bill Gates or the pharmaceutical companies, or both. That there is skulduggery in the world and much that is murky which only time will reveal is true, but Kennedy's book has all the objectivity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. ....
When I looked up at random five of the medical papers Kennedy cites, I found that he had misrepresented all of them. For example, an Argentinian trial which he describes as randomized and controlled specifically says in its text that it was unrandomized. In another instance, he claims "[t]he UK government's latest Office for National Statistics report on mortality rates by COVID vaccination status shows that for age-adjusted mortality rate, the death rate by October was higher among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated." This is misleading. There are only numbers, no rates: Kennedy evidently believes in numerators without denominators. Furthermore, the age-adjustment to which he refers was not exactly fine-honed: it divided the population into those under 50 and those over 50. This is important, given the age distribution of risk of death. And Kennedy omits the following from the paper:
Two doses of vaccine remain highly effective, with 60-80 per cent effectiveness against infection, 90-99 per cent effectiveness against hospitalization, 90-95 per cent against mortality, and 65-99 per cent against symptomatic disease.
In another case, he cites a trial that he claims showed a "dramatic" effect of the drug ivermectin. Again, it showed no such thing; one would have to be a hysteric to call the effect dramatic. What's more, the trial was of 12 patients in each arm, so it was practically useless from a statistical point of view, even had the results been less trifling and more dramatic than they were.
He contradicts himself. He spends pages denying that HIV causes AIDS, and then says that he believes that it does. He calls America's media "bought, brain-dead and scientifically illiterate," and then frequently quotes from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as from television channels. He is no great scientific thinker himself. He assumes that Koch's postulates (formulated to determine whether a particular microbe causes a disease) are still universally upheld in their original form, which they are not; and very early in the book he gives what he calls "Anthony Fauci's report card," which consists of raw death rates per million from COVID-19 of 19 countries, with the United States the worst and Tanzania the best (Dr. Fauci being responsible for the former). He shows no awareness that these figures require some qualification, in fact so many qualifications that they are useless as presented, and evidence only of his own scientific illiteracy or his extreme parti pris. [preconceived view]
[note: the President of Tanzania in 2020 was a Covid denier and died from the disease, so it is unlikely that any disease counts from that country are accurate. As of July 2023, the official death toll is 846 whereas the "excess death" counts examined by the Economist magazine suggest the real toll could be as high as 210,000.]
He asserts things that are simply not true. For example, he says that Ukraine's low death rate from COVID is attributable to the availability there of hydroxychloroquine. In fact, Ukraine has a high death rate from COVID.
Kennedy makes wild claims for the efficacy of two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, further alleging that they have not been used because of the Judeo-Masonic—sorry, the Pharmaco-Fauci-Bill-Gates—conspiracy. He several times calls them miracle drugs, which should alert us to the fact that we have entered the realm of religious belief rather than that of normal therapeutics. He calls Professor Didier Raoult's studies on hydroxychloroquine "powerful" when, again, they were nothing of the kind, but—from the scientific point of view—useless. He makes much of the fraud practiced on or by the Lancet with regard to hydroxychloroquine, but nothing of the frauds perpetrated on the other side. He makes much of the need for disinterested Cochrane reviews but fails to mention the Cochrane review of ivermectin which came to the conclusion that there was no evidence of its efficacy (but also none of harmfulness). In short, what he writes reads as the pleading of a tort lawyer—which, of course, is what Mr. Kennedy is.
.... This book, however, will be of very little use to future historians, except as an example of the strain of extreme paranoia that is an ineradicable, but not admirable, part of human nature in response to crisis.
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April 30, 2024