RFK Jr. Stokes Fears of Lost Medical Breakthroughs

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cut federal funding for mRNA vaccine research is the latest in a series of moves that have the potential to crush future medical breakthroughs and accelerate a brain drain," Axios reports.

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Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams -- who served during the first Trump administration -- argued Sunday that "people are going to die" if the U.S. backs away from mRNA vaccine development, after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. halted around $500 million in research funding. cbsn.ws/3J7ohn6

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-- CBS News (@cbsnews.com) Aug 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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RFKjr wants to focus on whole cell vaccines. He's not just stopping breakthroughs, he's taking us back almost 100 years.

#1 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-08-10 10:29 PM | Reply

I can see it now:
-lots of US scientists quietly move to Canada
-Canadian universities and companies develop the next COVID vaccine
-Canadians sell the vaccine to the US for twice the price charged to other victims of US tariffs, because, well, you know
-The US wonders what hit them, with hundreds of thousands more MAGA fools dead

Trump declares victory over COVID-26, with Heroin Bob at his side...

#2 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-11 12:19 PM | Reply

...and THIS is only after 6 months.

Imagine the damage, much of it irreversible, that will be done to science and research by January 2029.

#3 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-08-11 02:58 PM | Reply

"people are going to die" if the U.S. backs away from mRNA vaccine development

That's a feature, not a bug.

Republicans don't mind if we just give up on cancer research.

They truly think cancer research is a waste of taxpayer money.

Because they are so adamantly Pro-Life, they understand the government must not spend any money saving lives.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 03:06 PM | Reply

While we suspend our medical and scientific research infrastructure next 4 years, China and the world continues.

It's no surprise, that's where innovation will source from.

#5 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-08-11 04:01 PM | Reply

Boomers pulling up the ladder behind them is not going to be a successful immigration policy, in a nation where 99% of us are descended from immigrants.

At least not in a Capitalist economy. Who knows, maybe they have something "better" in the works.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 04:04 PM | Reply