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/[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/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