Trump's DERP State

toomuchbaloney · May 28

RFKjr told everyone in a congressional hearing that the people shouldn't take recommendations from him when he was struggling to answer questions. Unfortunately, the departments within Health and Human Services must take his recommendations.

toomuchbaloney · May 29

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/rfk-jr-nih-scientists-medical-journals-jama-lancet-nejm-00371349

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to stop government scientists from publishing their work in major medical journals on a podcast Tuesday as part of his escalating war on institutions he says are influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

Speaking on the "Ultimate Human" podcast, Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet, three of the most influential medical journals in the world, were "corrupt" and publish studies funded and approved by pharmaceutical companies.

That is the irresponsible and unqualified secretary of HHS. Trump's judgment is terrible. We are in trouble.

NutmeggeRN, BSN · May 29

toomuchbaloney said:

The administrating needs those funds for their deportation costs which are markedly higher per person than any other time. Team Trump is blowing through their Department budgets in record time.

Who is profiting from these deportations? Follow the money...

heron, ASN, RN · May 29

NutmeggeRN said:

Who is profiting from these deportations? Follow the money...

Private prison companies, for one, have been making serious bank off of immigration enforcement. Remember the Arizona papers please law? Geo et al spent millions lobbying for that legislation.

toomuchbaloney · May 29

heron said:

Private prison companies, for one, have been making serious bank off of immigration enforcement. Remember the Arizona papers please law? Geo et al spent millions lobbying for that legislation.

There's a big bunch of money for these private prisons earmarked in this P2025 legislation before the Senate.

toomuchbaloney · May 30

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/well/maha-report-citations.html

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The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a "clear, evidence-based foundation" for action on a range of children's health issues.

But the report, from the presidential Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. These included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma.

"It makes me concerned about the rigor of the report, if these really basic citation practices aren't being followed,” said Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University who was listed as the author of a paper

Is RFKjr directing our national health programs based upon ignorance and AI fabricated evidence that supports their ignorance?

toomuchbaloney · May 30

https://www.science.org/content/article/gold-standard-or-appalling-hhs-s-500-million-vaccine-bet-inactivated-viruses-puzzles

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When The Wall Street Journal reported on 1 May that President Donald Trump's administration was shifting $500 million meant for improving COVID-19 vaccines to develop more ambitious "universal" vaccines for multiple strains of flu and coronaviruses, many infectious disease scientists and vaccine developers were puzzled. "This initiative represents a decisive shift toward transparency, effectiveness, and comprehensive preparedness,” said a statement issued later that day by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which dubbed the project Generation Gold Standard. But despite HHS's promise of transparency, details of the initiative remain sparse, and some researchers are leveling sharp criticisms at the effort.

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One detail triggering swift condemnation is the decision to give a still-unspecified portion of the $500 million to work led by two flu scientists who have recently become leaders at HHS's National Institutes of Health (NIH): Deputy Director Matthew Memoli and the newly appointed acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Jeffery Taubenberger. The diverted money comes from a $5 billion pot to support Project NextGen, a COVID-19 vaccine effort started in April 2023 by HHS's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and NIAID.

For large awards like this, both BARDA and NIH typically make a public announcement of an area of interest and invite applicants to compete with detailed proposals. But that didn't happen in this case, dismaying some vaccine veterans. "I don't think it should be impossible for an NIH intramural project to be funded, but it should be reviewed by the right experts, independently, and there should be a very high stringency to ensure there is no conflict or cronyism,” says Moncef Slaoui, a former GSK executive who ran Operation Warp Speed, which led the U.S. government crash program to develop COVID-19 vaccines. "That's not what's been done.”

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Equally baffling to some vaccine researchers is the dearth of published evidence to support Taubenberger and Memoli's project, which relies on inactivating viruses, a "platform" that first proved its worth in the 1940s with flu vaccines. "In some circumstances, the older technologies are safer and better,” says Stanley Plotkin, author of the seminal textbook Plotkin's Vaccines and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. "What's troubling is to have an announcement that this is a revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, and there's nothing on which to base those statements.” When he saw the HHS announcement, "I thought, 'Have I missed something in the literature?’” says Plotkin, who now consults for vaccine manufacturers. "Well, no, I haven't.”

Hmm

Should we be relieved that these two didn't follow RFKjrs lead and just use AI to create supporting literature and research?

toomuchbaloney · May 31

Did y'all know that we pay Kristi Noem to fly around endorsing Kremlin approved candidates in Poland, of all places?

https://apnews.com/article/poland-presidential-election-nawrocki-trzaskowski-trump-mentzen-65809f2f278f7430cbdfe313e312e9f4

Kafka Fan44 · Jun 2

toomuchbaloney said:

Did y'all know that we pay Kristi Noem to fly around endorsing Kremlin approved candidates in Poland, of all places?

https://apnews.com/article/poland-presidential-election-nawrocki-trzaskowski-trump-mentzen-65809f2f278f7430cbdfe313e312e9f4

Grats to Poland

Baloney with more Russiaphobia

toomuchbaloney · Jun 2

Kafka Fan44 said:

Grats to Poland

Baloney with more Russiaphobia

Hahaha

Phobia? That's weird.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jun 2

Poland is arming it self and beefing up military spending and supporting Ukraine. Seems like they have more concerns about Russia than us.

The US has troops in Poland and have seems to have had "Russiaphobia" alongside Poland since the break up of the Soviet Union.

I guess it remains to be seen if Poland will continue to go down that path.

I wonder if Poland and the US will try again to get a "Fort Trump" in Poland? (the name was not suggested by Trump but Poland)

https://apnews.com/article/poland-us-ukraine-nato-e85429384b558ccebc4ead7116658619

toomuchbaloney · Jun 2

Tweety said:

I wonder if Poland and the US will try again to get a "Fort Trump" in Poland? (the name was not suggested by Trump but Poland)

It's well known what kind of influence works well with Trump. The most consistent thing about Trump over time might be that he is transactional.