Health and Sanity category archive
Quackery 0
Farron discusses an editorial from The Lancet about the damage RFK Jr. has done to the public’s health.
Read the news report that led to Farron’s video.
The Medicine Show 0
Rebecca Watson finds herself–er–somewhat taken aback by the Trump maladministration’s willingness to put the public’s health in the hands of quacks.
Or you can read the transcript.
Vaccine Nation 0
Thom discusses RFK Jr.’s latest action to endanger the public health and enable epidemics.
Read the article that Thom references.
Aside:
I’m old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was developed. Heck, when the Salk vaccine became available, my parents rushed me to our doctor’s office as soon as they could. Ditto for the Sabin vaccine.
And polio disappeared.
Now I fear that I will again see pictures of children in iron lungs on my telly vision, thanks to RFK Jr. and Donald Trump.
The Medicine Show 0
Sam and the crew dissect RFK Jr.’s bogus blather.
This New Gilded Age 0
Sam and the crew discuss AOC’s masterful calling out a CVS executive for monopoly practices.
Vaccine Nation 0
Mary Trump looks at RFK Jr.’s disregard of history so as to make epidemics great again.
Suffer the Children, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0
Once again, we are reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value. Dr. Leah Luckeroth points out that
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Vaccine Nation 0
Bloomberg’s Lisa Jarvis looks at the potential results of RFK Jr.’s choosing to ignore over almost three centuries of evidence that vaccines work.
Vaccine Nation 0
And that future is already our present.
Afterthought:
I was a young ‘un before measles vaccines. Measles were considered almost a rite of passage for children back then. I can tell you, measles is not a fun way to get out of going to school.
And now today’s Republican Party wants to bring that past into our present.
Vaccine Nation 0
David discusses how Donald Trump and RFK Jr. have made measles great again.
Was “Republican Family Values”
Always a Misdirection Play?*
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Thom argues that Republicans have shown that what they value is money, not families.
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*You bet your sweet bippy it was.
The Republican Health Care Plan:
“You’re on Your Own, Buddy”
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Sam and the crew discuss the Republican nothingburger.
Aside:
If you wonder why the Party of the New Secesh is so determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act, dubbed “Obamnacare” by the Republican Party, I think the answer is quite simple.
Barrack Obama is not white.
And he is a Democrat.
Every time the Party of the New Secesh hear the word, “Obamacare”–a word which they coined, mind you–it reminds them that a not-white Democrat crafted a somewhat successful plan to make America’s health care you-can-hardly-call-it-a system a little fairer, and it drives them nuts.
They just want to make it go away.
But that’s just my take.
Republican Thought Police 0
Rebecca Watson comments on a recent ruling by the Supreme Supremacist Court.
Or you can read the transcript.