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RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research

RFK Jr. being RFK Jr.
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President-Elect Donald Trump has nominated antivax activist, conspiracy theorist, and all around crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. We are so screwed.

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Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s antivax assault on public health: Will it infect the federal government?

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Quack Dr. Joseph Ladapo, with his boss Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s Florida Department of Health recently released guidance on COVID vaccines based on antivax tropes. Could they metastasize to the federal government if Donald Trump wins in November?

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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo parrots antivax disinformation

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Quack Dr. Joseph Ladapo, with his boss Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has called for a halt in the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines based on fear mongering about DNA “contamination.” Truly, under Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has become a public health hellscape.

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Dr. Joseph Ladapo: Busted lying with statistics about COVID-19 vaccines

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
To paraphrase Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo elsewhere: "Don't worry. Just eat right, lose weight, exercise, and get vaccinated (but ONLY if you want to). Everything will be alright." Also: vaccines are killing young men. Also: "I changed the study."

Surprise! Surprise! Politico has busted Dr. Joseph Ladapo for having altered a Florida Department of Health study to lie with statistics and make COVID-19 vaccines look more dangerous than COVID-19 for men under 40.

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Lying with statistics in Florida, COVID-19 vaccine edition

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
To paraphrase Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo elsewhere: "Don't worry. Just eat right, lose weight, exercise, and get vaccinated (but ONLY if you want to). Everything will be alright." Also: vaccines are killing young men. Also: "I changed the study."

Remember that Florida Department of Health study that suggested that COVID-19 vaccines were more dangerous to young men than COVID? Surprise! It turns out that important results were left out, all to lie with statistics and make the vaccines look worse.