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swag

(26,537 posts)
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 11:57 AM Dec 13

Kennedy's Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine

Source: New York Times

Sheryl Gay Stolberg
By Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Dec. 13, 2024
Updated 11:12 a.m. ET

The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.

That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.

Mr. Siri has also filed a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines; challenged, and in some cases quashed, Covid vaccine mandates around the country; sued federal agencies for the disclosure of records related to vaccine approvals; and subjected prominent vaccine scientists to grueling videotaped depositions.

Much of Mr. Siri’s work — including the polio petition filed in 2022 — has been on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, a nonprofit whose founder is a close ally of Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Siri also represented Mr. Kennedy during his presidential campaign.


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health/aaron-siri-rfk-jr-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE4.CFE5.KrxCFQ6uXn-c&smid=url-share

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Kennedy's Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine (Original Post) swag Dec 13 OP
Maybe Kennedy can save trump the trouble Turbineguy Dec 13 #1
And the stupidity begins/continues. republianmushroom Dec 13 #2
The Stupid! GB_RN Dec 13 #4
It kills, too! (BTW) dchill Dec 13 #23
On What Grounds? GB_RN Dec 13 #3
I have an Internet address. You know, because they can't put anything on the internet that's not true. Ray Bruns Dec 13 #16
my God, I remember the doctor's waiting room filled... mike_c Dec 13 #5
I got mine while in grade school from the school nurse. Every kid got it from the same syringe. Pre sugar cube LiberalArkie Dec 13 #20
Schools in Long Beach, CA opened vaccine 'clinics' to ALL family members, in the evenings, when I was a kid there Attilatheblond Dec 13 #31
To be historically correct he needs to have the SmallPox vaccine banned. LiberalArkie Dec 13 #32
Jonas Salk will go from hero status to public enemy number 1 in the history books via RFK Jr andym Dec 13 #6
I've wondered if the Kennedy name will be forever tarnished. BadgerMom Dec 13 #14
It's always been tarnished Kev80 Dec 13 #19
No...because people are smart enough to know that IDIOT is a Kennedy in name only Bengus81 Dec 13 #27
These bastards deserve to wake up as ventilator-dependent quadriplegics Girard442 Dec 13 #7
No, if they live like that for many years, it means we are paying AllyCat Dec 13 #12
Make Preventable Deaths Great Again IronLionZion Dec 13 #8
Great we get polio back and a healthcare system that is for profit and no government help for people kimbutgar Dec 13 #9
To make America great again IronLionZion Dec 13 #11
Not much. Mr.Bill Dec 13 #13
CEOs could double insurance rates and make a killing. Irish_Dem Dec 13 #28
Unlike corporations, Sideshow Bobby CAN be sued for murder Wild blueberry Dec 13 #10
Trump would just pardon him. Irish_Dem Dec 13 #29
Giving a special thanks here to Moscow Mitch City Lights Dec 13 #15
Jonas Salk Kev80 Dec 13 #17
Idiot. byronius Dec 13 #18
There would be absolutely no downside to RFKJ dying in agony Orrex Dec 13 #21
F Bobby. area51 Dec 13 #22
so the kennedy lawyer is as fucking crazy as "bobby" is nt orleans Dec 13 #24
Polio will go away when it warms up........n/t Bengus81 Dec 13 #25
My brother had polio as a kid maptap22 Dec 13 #26
Yep...with a sugar cube for myself and my family. Parents were taking NO chances back then Bengus81 Dec 13 #30
That's right it was a sugar cube maptap22 Dec 14 #33

GB_RN

(3,295 posts)
3. On What Grounds?
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 12:09 PM
Dec 13

I want to see the actual, scientific research papers and accompanying peer reviews. What’s that? You don’t have any? You’re operating off of something you read on Facebook or other…”legitimate” source? GTFO here.

Ray Bruns

(4,917 posts)
16. I have an Internet address. You know, because they can't put anything on the internet that's not true.
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 02:32 PM
Dec 13

Because I do my own research.

mike_c

(36,440 posts)
5. my God, I remember the doctor's waiting room filled...
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 12:20 PM
Dec 13

...with young mothers, like mine, and their children waiting for the polio vaccine.

LiberalArkie

(17,176 posts)
20. I got mine while in grade school from the school nurse. Every kid got it from the same syringe. Pre sugar cube
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 02:45 PM
Dec 13

Attilatheblond

(5,035 posts)
31. Schools in Long Beach, CA opened vaccine 'clinics' to ALL family members, in the evenings, when I was a kid there
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 04:10 PM
Dec 13

The sugar cubes were given in the cafeteria and the line to get the vaccine looked stretched across & around the playground. School kids, pre-schoolers, parents, grand parents, aunts/uncles, and just anybody from the 'hood. It was like a gleeful block party.

Most of the adults had known people who got polio when they were young. NOBODY wanted to skip the vaccine and everyone was very gracious to the health care workers who gave the doses. Such relief on the faces of the adults, knowing their kids would be unlikely to die in iron lungs of their memories, or even have to spend their lives in heavy metal leg braces.

Sometimes I think RFK jr is just so angry about losing his father that he wants to punish the whole world. He is a sick sick man and should NEVER be in ANY position of government authority.

LiberalArkie

(17,176 posts)
32. To be historically correct he needs to have the SmallPox vaccine banned.
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 05:37 PM
Dec 13

He and others wanted an excuse for Aspergers as due their superior genetics it was impossible for it to be a genetic disease that a child was born with. So it had to be something else that the children were exposed to. Ahh. Has to be the vaccines that caused it as their superior blueblood genes could not be it.

His line of thinking and others is that a child could not have been born autistic, it has to be something else. It could not ever have been the parents fault - hence the first "Karens".

andym

(5,805 posts)
6. Jonas Salk will go from hero status to public enemy number 1 in the history books via RFK Jr
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 12:29 PM
Dec 13

Hard to believe this level of ignorance achieving undeserved power.

Girard442

(6,498 posts)
7. These bastards deserve to wake up as ventilator-dependent quadriplegics
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 01:03 PM
Dec 13

And live that way for many many years.

AllyCat

(17,428 posts)
12. No, if they live like that for many years, it means we are paying
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 02:17 PM
Dec 13

For their care. And I don’t want to pay for them. They don’t deserve it.

IronLionZion

(47,388 posts)
8. Make Preventable Deaths Great Again
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 01:05 PM
Dec 13

so stupid and unnecessary

Polio was close to eradication. The last wild case anywhere in the Americas was in the 1990s. The only countries where it is still circulating are Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some war-torn areas like Gaza. Let's not go backwards.

kimbutgar

(24,000 posts)
9. Great we get polio back and a healthcare system that is for profit and no government help for people
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 01:20 PM
Dec 13

What could go wrong?

Wild blueberry

(7,359 posts)
10. Unlike corporations, Sideshow Bobby CAN be sued for murder
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 01:46 PM
Dec 13

There were kids at our elementary school who had polio. That it was essentially eradicated is a tribute to science and medicine.
Thank you.

Kev80

(36 posts)
17. Jonas Salk
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 02:35 PM
Dec 13

He was a great man who wasn’t worried about compensation, he was a humanitarian. I’m to young to have witnessed polio but I’ve heard the horror stories. Iron lung, just kill me I’m already dead living in this contraption.

maptap22

(168 posts)
26. My brother had polio as a kid
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 03:49 PM
Dec 13

And has needed a brace for one of his legs all his life. He was one of the lucky ones though and didn’t end up in an iron lung. I can’t imagine my parents fear with also having 5 other kids - it was so contagious. I remember getting the vaccine.

Bengus81

(7,801 posts)
30. Yep...with a sugar cube for myself and my family. Parents were taking NO chances back then
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 03:53 PM
Dec 13

I know that asshat was vaccinated,he's five months younger than me.

maptap22

(168 posts)
33. That's right it was a sugar cube
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 11:05 AM
Dec 14

I was thinking it was a drink but you are correct. I was very young - maybe 4? One of my earliest memories.

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