The Noisy Killer Amongst Us (UPDATED)

 

The Noisy Killer Amongst Us

“I had eleven brothers and sisters, I had about 70 first cousins, and I never saw anybody with diabetes… I never knew anybody with a food allergy. I never knew anybody with autism… And I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation. You can tell from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection, and I know that that’s not how our children are supposed to look.”

Robert Kennedy, Jr, speech at the Texas Capitol in Austin on August 27th.

“So we need to look at the priorities of the agency, if there’s really a deeply, deeply embedded, I would say, malaise at the agency… And we need strong leadership that will go in there and that will be able to execute on President Trump’s broad ambitions.” 

RFK, Jr. shortly have he fired CSC head, Susan Monarez.

RFK, Jr must have absorbed his medical degree from the ether. Not only is he completely uneducated and unaware of bona fide medical science, he is quick to project his wildly inaccurate conspiracy theories as truth, generating unwarranted gravitas as Secretary of Health and Human Services. But his distorted utterances have undoubtedly lead to the death of untold numbers of people, particularly children, and the return of diseases to our country – like measles and even possibly polio – that had been eradicated. The same man who dumped a bear carcass in Central Park and bragged about a now-deceased worm had lived in his brain, is an antivaxxer, anti-science nerd, disowned by his own family who has told the world that the explosion of diagnosed cases of autism was driven by our obsession with vaccines, particularly the highly effective mRNA vaccines, responsible for saving tens of millions of people around the world who survived the COVID pandemic … and generating serious fatality rates for those who did not receive that vaccine.

Kennedy is right; there has been a 60-fold increase in autism diagnoses in the past three decades… but not much in the way of “autism” as it was defined 30 years ago. The disease was not particularly well diagnosed 30 years ago, and the definition of “autism” did not originally embrace the mild form of that ailment that is called “Aspergers” syndrome. Most of us know that the ultimate source of medical diseases is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, now in its 5th edition (DSM-5). So, to understand the difference between the number of autism diagnoses and the number of vetted actually determined cases, I turn to a guest New York Times columnist, Dr Allen Frances, a member of the task force that created DSM-4, who wrote (June 23rd):

“The rapid rise in autism cases is not because of vaccines or environmental toxins, but rather is the result of changes in the way that autism is defined and assessed — changes that I helped put into place… In the third edition of the D.S.M., published in 1980, autism was tightly defined and considered extremely rare. Criteria for the diagnosis required a very early onset (before age 3) of severe cognitive, interpersonal, emotional and behavioral problems…

“Based on careful studies, our task force predicted that the addition of Asperger’s syndrome would modestly increase the rate of children given an autism-related diagnosis. Instead, the rate increased more than 16-fold, to one in 150 from an estimated one in 2,500 in the span of a decade. It has been climbing more gradually ever since and is one in 31 today. Our intentions were good, but we underestimated the enormous unintended consequences of adding the new diagnosis.

“The resulting explosion in cases included many instances of overdiagnosis — children were labeled with a serious condition for challenges that would better be viewed as a variation of normal. It also sowed the seeds of conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine beliefs as people wondered how to explain the rising cases.

“Many large studies have come to the same conclusion: Vaccines don’t cause autism. The role, if any, of environmental toxins is still to be determined, but there is no known environmental factor that can explain the sudden jump in diagnoses. The changes we made to the diagnosis in the D.S.M.-IV can.

“Why did autism-related diagnoses explode so far beyond what our task force had predicted? Two reasons. First, many school systems provide much more intensive services to children with the diagnosis of autism. While these services are extremely important for many children, whenever having a diagnosis carries a benefit, it will be overused. Second, overdiagnosis can happen whenever there’s a blurry line between normal behavior and disorder, or when symptoms overlap with other conditions. Classic severe autism had so tight a definition it was hard to confuse it with anything else; Asperger’s was easily confused with other mental disorders or with normal social avoidance and eccentricity. (We also, regrettably, named the condition after Hans Asperger, one of the first people to describe it, not realizing until later that he had collaborated with the Nazis.)”

HHS and its subject agencies have had serious management changes, funding cuts and at the CDC, even a bullet-ridden attack on its central facility. Morale is at a new low. There has been a major purge at HHS, especially trained and degreed professionals, advisors and staff, many with decades at HHS, but those with a focus on scientific research, particularly associated with vaccine testing, have been slowly replaced with quacks and conspiracy theorists. One serious and very recent appointment, has been CDC head, Dr. Susan Monarez, who (according to Wikipedia) completed her Ph.D. in veterinary science where her research focused on developing technologies to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases, particularly those affecting low- and middle-income countries. She continued her studies at Stanford University School of Medicine in John C. Boothroyd's group, further continuing her work in the field of infectious disease research. Her background made her perfectly suited to study zoonotic transmission of diseases (from animal to human).

On August 27th, Monarez was fired because she would not sign off on RFK, Jr’s determination that vaccines were vastly more dangerous than the diseases they were intended to prevent, a falsehood she could not put her name to. Dr. Richard Besser, a former CDC acting director, said that when he spoke with Monarez on Wednesday [8/27], she vowed not to do anything that was illegal or that flew in the face of science. She had refused directives from the Department of Health and Human Services to fire her management team. She also would not automatically sign off on any recommendations from a vaccines advisory committee handpicked by Kennedy, according to Besser, now president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which helps support The Associated Press Health and Science Department.” Associated Press, August 28th. Her most senior management team, many with decades of experience at the CDC, resigned immediately. A large sympathy walkout by the CDC staff followed.

This left the CDC in serious disarray, quacks at the helm, and the American public unprotected from easily preventable diseases. RFK, Jr appointed former GOP speech writer Jim O'Neill (with no medical education or experience), his top deputy, to serve as acting director of the CDC, perhaps confirming that the CDC is now just a propaganda machine for RFK, Jr’s dangerous science-by-conspiracy theories mandate. That is precisely how the HHS Secretary defines “science.”

Meanwhile: Vaccine funding was gone, and once eradicated diseases were returning with a vengeance, just as a vaccine has been released that works against the latest COVID strains. mRNA is one of the safest preventative vaccines ever invented, tested on a mass scale during the pandemic, with the ability to target very specific ailments… and nothing else. Without that research a very large number of Americans will die unnecessarily. Stand by a mirror and ask yourself if you just might someday become a victim, killed or seriously harmed by a disease that the CDC could have prevented. Whether it’s you or potentially a large number of Americans, it will happen!

I’m Peter Dekom, and the RFK, Jr team of quacks need to be discharged replaced with vetted and experienced medical professions before the killing accelerates.