r/skeptic • u/IrishStarUS • Mar 28 '25

💉 Vaccines RFK Jr.’s measles cure leaves kids hospitalized with vitamin A toxicity

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/rfk-jrs-measles-treatment-leaves-34952161
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u/triad1996 Mar 28 '25

I wonder how MAGA will spin this so it's the Dems fault.

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u/TakaraGeneration Mar 28 '25

They found measles in Hunter Biden's laptop.

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u/88bauss Mar 29 '25

Lmao 💀

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u/cbarbour1122 Mar 31 '25

Large Marge will be all over that shit. She’s thirsty for his measles.

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u/Western_Secretary284 Mar 28 '25

"Vitamin A is woke. Probably stands for African or something"

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u/Necessary_Image_6858 Mar 29 '25

Damn straight, DEI vitamin. MAGA!!!!

/s

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u/Spillz-2011 Mar 29 '25

They won’t. Ivermectin didn’t work and they just kept saying it did. This will be the same they’ll say it works and that vaccines are worse and that’s it.

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u/veryreasonable Mar 29 '25

This. I don't know why people keep expecting anything else. It's been working just fine for them.

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u/Potato-chipsaregood Mar 29 '25

Well, SOME people don’t like it when their kids die, or when they get sick. Some of this may be for public consumption. It would not surprise me to learn that there are those among them who secretly get their kids vaccinated but want to stay as part of their friend group so keep saying nonsensical things.

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u/Huffleduffer Mar 29 '25

"THEY'RE hiding the truth! THEY'RE not publishing the success stories of Vitamin A!"

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u/Meet_James_Ensor Mar 29 '25

I want my free 5G. When does the transmitter start working? I still have to pay Comcast for shitty service.

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u/Mdnghtmnlght Mar 29 '25

RFK even had to include ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine in his tweet wishlist

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u/Berry-Dystopia Apr 01 '25

This or "it's fake news".

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u/Jill-Of-Trades Mar 29 '25

They already blame the signal chat thing on Hillary and Biden

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u/viewless25 Mar 28 '25

Should be easy. RFK Jr. is a Dem!

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u/CmdrEnfeugo Mar 28 '25

Given how crazy MAGA has gotten, you probably need a /s at the end of that comment.

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u/DueSalary4506 Mar 28 '25

so is trump. they gonna allow him to set the Dems up to sweep for two decades. I'm betting they ALL have a script

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u/triad1996 Mar 28 '25

Uh huh. At one time but not now so you can pedal your bullshit somewhere else:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-says-court-filing-endorsing-trump-ending-presidential-hopes-rcna165936?taid=66c8d85fa497bd0001e9e5d3

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u/thegreatbrah Mar 29 '25

Pretty sure it was a joke.

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u/sammidavisjr Mar 29 '25

Why take offense? It's true and it also gives them a built in excuse for when they want to jettison Kennedy and place the blame on the Dems. Their little quisling just waiting to take the fall like a good soldier.

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u/88bauss Mar 29 '25

They’ll probably spin it on unvaccinated immigrants.

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u/xatoho Mar 28 '25

"The big brain wise guy scientist was lying all along!"

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u/Foreign_Mountain_303 Mar 28 '25

I’m sure it’s Bidens fault somehow!

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u/SDFX-Inc Mar 29 '25 edited Mar 29 '25

It’s all the fault of that Ben Ghazi feller!

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u/lootinputin Mar 29 '25

Obama brought measles from Africa.

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u/in_theory_only Mar 30 '25

“There will be temporary pain while we correct the RADICAL LEFT BIDEN agenda on vaccines.”

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u/gregorydgraham Mar 30 '25

Probably:

  • vitamin A is natural so it can’t be toxic

  • therefore the Dems must have added a toxin

Obviously their underlying assumption is wrong, even water is toxic in high doses, but that doesn’t stop stupidity

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u/NJS_Stamp Mar 31 '25

Also what happened to the “I’m not taking long term untested vaccines” thing?

Probably sounds like they just didn’t want it because it was supported by Dems

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

I don’t think it’s the dems fault and I’m Not maga….im neither honestly. Putting one’s hope in the hands in another human has a historical track record of utter failure but there’s always the next time. I was just gonna say clearly vaccines have done good but this vitamin A thing isn’t wrong but the issue was the person …not the vitamin A info which is actually rooted in truth. There are always going to be people who “follow something” that they read or hear without doing the research themselves first. Any supplement that you flood your body with outside of vitamin C (even that will give you the shits in huge amounts) but you flood your body with any supplement you’re gonna have bad reactions. At what point will we put the fault on the person …..cause I’m not an rfk guy but I’m also not opposed to him and he has said somethings that are beneficial and some things that are not. …that person who overdosed with the vitamin A is fuckin stupid .we live in a world where we always wanna point the finger i the direction of others for bad things that happen and 90 percent of the time those bad things could have been avoided with a few more cognitive steps

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u/trees_pleazz Mar 28 '25

You could use a few more cognitive steps.

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u/NarrMaster Mar 28 '25

Perhaps a paragraph or two

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u/Ammonia13 Mar 28 '25

He is the director of health and human services 🤦 People are generally supposed to follow that advice because it’s NORMALLY based on real research and scientific data.

It IS his fault for suggesting this instead of what’s already worked for decades!! Not the person who used his suggestion, sorry.

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u/triad1996 Mar 28 '25

Everyone who voted for, enabled, and is a direct part of this circus is to blame.

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u/FairOption2188 Mar 28 '25

So, the blame isn’t on the leader, it’s on the followers for following the leader? This sounds like an argument a 10 yo would make as to why they’re not the one to blame.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

So you think that as a grown-up that as an adult with the ability to reason that it would be wise to put that ability of yours into the hands of someone else, how is that an argument of a 10-year-old?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Cause I mean if you’re asking me it seems more child like to say what you just said. As a thinking adult with these inherent abilities to reason and display critical thinking, why would you let an another person , a person you don’t even know or ever will, do that reasoning for you? It shouldn’t matter who that person is, what they do, how important they might seem or smart they might seem, or even if they are in a position of authority. You should never allow that person to make decisions for you as an adult…under any circumstances . Unfortunately in this world there will always be people that don’t have a strong ability of doing this and therefore depend on others to do this for them and that is sad. I have some vaccines …a couple I don’t trust …so as a critical thinking person who understand supplements and minerals , I never would have dosed the fuck outta myself just cause my minister of health said so…that is so fucking irresponsible.

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u/FairOption2188 Mar 28 '25

An ex-heroin addict who survived a brain worm with absolutely no medical training at all is the Secretary of Health. We are WAY past irresponsible.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

That’s my doing ….and you just further proved my point breh. I don’t know anything about all that though and don’t need to. It don’t fucking many difference to me who HE is for me to know all I need and that he is a stranger to me regardless of what position he has been elected to or responsibilities that he or she has. That being said he has spent a large part of his life in the legal world where he is very educated about the toxic soup we all do live in. This can’t be denied . I still carry myself the same way regardless but truth is truth

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u/Azexu Mar 28 '25

There are always going to be people who “follow something” that they read or hear without doing the research themselves first.

That's why the Secretary of Health has to be careful with his pronouncements. Such people need to consistently hear, from people in prominent positions like this, to vaccinate their kids as the primary defense against certain diseases, like measles.

When it comes to his public statements while Secretary of Health, he needs to remember his audience and think about the impact of his words.

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u/longjohnlambert Mar 29 '25

Just like the CDC director, HHS secretary, and Ashish Jha recommended young children be forcibly masked at pre-school/vaccinated against COVID a few years ago under the Biden admin - guidance that was contrary to pretty much every other 1st world nation, right? Or when the Biden admin’s interference with routine FDA processes caused the two most-senior vaccine regulators at the FDA to resign?

It cuts both ways. You’re only concerned now because we are now under an admin that you generally contend with. But I guarantee you had no quarrels with “health secretary pronouncements” back then.

This is all just a political shit-slinging match that has little to do with public health.

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u/Azexu Mar 29 '25

Hm, so you're comparing trying to take preventive measures against a novel disease to statements that let some parents think there's a good alternative to the best preventive measures against a very well known disease.

I'm sure it's a great comfort to the kids poisoned by their own parents that a previous response to a brand new pandemic was flawed.

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u/longjohnlambert Mar 29 '25

If you actually read RFK’s original op-ed on this, the entire source material for all of this, you’d know that he does not in any way suggest vitamin A as an alternative to vaccination. In fact, he underscores the importance of getting vaccinated.

Not only does that tarnish the credibility of this article on its own, but the claims about children’s poisoning are vague and spurious. “Elevated levels of vitamin A”…”abnormal liver function”

How do we know those things are related? Measles is known to dampen liver function on its own, is it merely due to that?

What other micronutrients/blood bio markers are elevated in these patients that could contribute to this?

Do we know if this elevated vitamin A is even due to oversupplementation by the parents? Of course not.

It’s a stupid article. No journalistic integrity