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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

There's an old anti-vaccine trope that the only way to know if a vaccine is safe and effective is to use a placebo-controlled clinical study, in which some people receive the vaccine and others receive an inert substance, such as a saline shot, before the results are compared. HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has embraced this trope and ordered that all new vaccines have placebo controls.

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What HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and his anti-vaccine sycophants don't understand is that sometimes we do have placebo-controlled clinical studies for vaccines. On the other hand, sometimes it is unethical and unnecessary to perform a placebo-controlled vaccine clinical trial.

Furthermore, clinical studies are not the only way to determine a vaccine's safety and effectiveness. Large epidemiological studies, like case-control and cohort studies, also provide substantial evidence about vaccine safety and effectiveness. But anti-vaxxers completely ignore that, and so does RFK Jr.

RFK is an idiot. This article explains why.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 08:41 PM | Reply

@#1 ... RFK is an idiot. ...

Idiot? I'm not there yet.

I mean, after all, he is now in the position he is in.

With no visible medical qualification, beside an apparent adulation and obsequious worshiping of Pres Trump.

So, who is the idiot here?

Sec Kennedy for exploiting Pres Trump?

Or Pres Trump for allowing himself (or wanting himself) to see such unfettered adulation of Pres Trump?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 09:09 PM | Reply

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