Beyond the Noise – No matter how many times Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that vaccines cause autism …
or that “no vaccine is safe and effective” …
or that the “polio vaccine killed many, many, many more people than it saved” …
or that the Covid-19 vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made” …
or that SARS-CoV-2 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese …
or that Blacks should receive a different vaccine schedule than Whites because “their immune system is better than ours” …
or that unpasteurized milk is safe, or that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS …
or that the measles outbreak in Samoa was caused by a defective measles vaccine …
or that the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was caused by the influenza vaccine (which wasn’t invented until the late 1940s) … it doesn’t matter.
And it doesn’t matter how many sycophants, reporters, fringe scientists, congressmen, and social media followers rise to support him.
The only thing that matters is that none of it is true. And scientific truths win out in the end.
Beyond the Noise is written by Paul Offit, MD, a pediatric infectious diseases physician, author, FDA advisor, grandfather, and co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine.
“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started”
BETH MOLE, ARS TECHNICA, MAR 17, 2025 – Federal support for mRNA vaccine research appears in jeopardy after KFF Health News reported Sunday that officials at the National Institutes of Health have directed scientists to remove all references to the lifesaving technology from their grant applications. All such research is now under direct scrutiny from health secretary and long-time anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A senior official at the NIH’s National Cancer Institute confirmed to KFF that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli “sent an email across the NIH instructing that any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported up the chain to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s office and the White House.”
Further, two independent scientists told the outlet that they were informed by NIH officials that any mention of mRNA vaccines needed to be removed from their grant applications. One, a biomedical researcher in Philadelphia, said that the NIH had “flagged our pending grant as having an mRNA vaccine component.”
The other, a researcher in New York who works on vaccines but not mRNA vaccines, was told that background mentions of mRNA vaccine efficacy in their previous grant applications needed to be removed from future applications.
While it remains unclear if mRNA vaccine research funding will be canceled or limited, researchers fear the worst.
Last week, news broke that the NIH was canceling or limiting grant funding for research related to vaccine hesitancy—which has increased significantly in recent years, leading to declining vaccination rates and the loss of herd immunity in many communities.
Language for grant termination notices stated:
“It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment,” according to reporting from The Washington Post …
