It Could Happen Here - RFK Jr. Breaks the Medical System

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

Mia and Gare discuss RFK Jr.'s hideous cuts to everything from HIV prevention to child vaccination as he entrenches his anti-vaccine agenda in the HHS. Sources:https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/114853 https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/health/fda-vaccine-peter-marks-resigns/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-to-gut-vaccine-promotion-and-hiv-prevention-office-sources-say/ https://archive.ph/z2Fyx https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1839225/ https://www.axios.com/2025/03/29/rfk-jr-body-shames-west-virginia-governor https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hhs-taps-anti-vaccine-activist-look-debunked-links-autism-vaccines-sou-rcna198214 https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/health/vaccine-grants-cancelled-pediatricians/index.html https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf https://archive.ph/48Ua1 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-wants-to-let-bird-flu-spread-on-poultry-farms-why-experts-are/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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die and all evidence suggests that I am going to be right about this. I am your host Mia Wong with me is Gare. Hello. He's making the meme come true. He's making the millions. Millions must die. I were really, really, really truly only the white man could make real unlimited genocide in the first world. It's great. It's great stuff. So this is going to be a recap episode of not even all, like some of the stuff RFK Jr. has done since he's gotten confirmed as the fucking United States' Secretary of Health and Human Services a organization which can includes so many things but like for example the NIH the CDC

FCA I believe yeah many many things so okay There are lots and lots and lots of different rounds of budget cuts That are happening and grant cuts from a whole bunch of different departments and agencies. We're going to start with the National Institutes of Health, cutting a whole bunch of studies for vaccines for new diseases. So RFK Jr.'s thing was, well, we're not going to fund any COVID research because COVID is over. So no more research into COVID vaccine treatments. We're not going to fund any COVID research because COVID is over. So no more research into COVID vaccine treatments.

We're not going to fund that. Now, obviously, COVID is like not over. Trivially, obviously, you catch it and it makes you sick. And sometimes you die and sometimes you get debilitating long term negative health outcomes. But this is the logic that they're using to just be like, no, fuck it, fuck it. We'll cut all of the funding that we can find that does this stuff. Now, the problem again, and so these cuts look a lot like the very beginning of the Trump administration,

where they were just going through and like, you'd get a giant list of grants that got cut in the sense that like, they're like control effing programs, right? And they're like searching for keywords and then just killing all the block grants that do that. We'll get more into this at the end of the episode with like a different set of cuts. But one of the big issues with this is that it's killing coronavirus research in general. Like all of it is getting like massive cuts. And so this includes, I think it was CNBC as you're putting on this, killing a bunch

of fairly like late stage research on things like, you know, like actually having vaccines that could work across like the broad category of coronaviruses because like obviously there are a whole bunch of different kinds of coronaviruses and there are certain sort of vaccine techniques that can work to suppress like the families of them and fucking I don't know maybe maybe maybe the Europeans or the Chinese will figure out how to do that because it sure as fuck isn't going to be us after we cut all this fucking funding. It's great. So all right we're starting sort of I, on the vaccine beat here because there's so many different kinds of bullshit. One of the other really big things that happened is Dr. Mark Peters, who was the guy who like

did Operation Warp Speed, which was Trump's like big push to get a COVID vaccine now. And this is something I think is worth highlighting. And again, this guy like worked under Trump, right? Some of these programs we're talking about later were Trump programs. But Trump won. I mean, like Trump did do some anti-vax shit and say some anti-vax shit, but he wasn't like a hardline anti-vaxxer. Definitely not, no.

Yeah. At many points, he tried to take credit himself for the fast response of the code vaccine, which, hey, as long as we get the vaccine, do whatever you want, buddy. And the amount that that's been like memory hold and like you're trying to like just alter alter history regarding the code vaccine is a little a little head scratching. head scratching. It gives me that slow growing headache that I'm experiencing every day nearly all the time. Just not due to COVID, because I've actually, to my knowledge, never gotten it. But it is a headache of political origin. Yeah. And I think one of the interesting elements of this is something I talked about more in the wake of the immediate wake of of 2020 like 2012 and 2022. There used to be a big split in the Republican Party between like the lab leakers and the

anti-vaxxers. Because the thing about being a lab leak person is that like you can't be a China released a bioweapon person who also thinks that the vaccine is evil or at least you shouldn't be able to that those are like mutually. It took years. It legitimately this is enough cognitive dissonance that even like the Alex Jones types it took years for them to sort of like develop a level of cognitive dissonance that allowed them to do this they did do it eventually and what we're seeing right now right is like Trump as a way of sort of shirring up his anti-vaccine flank has just like handed control

over all public health policy to these just like, hideous anti vaccine, like cranks. And so Peter Marx, who was like, one of the big guys from Trump one and you know, who stayed on through Biden who was like, Yeah, okay, I'm gonna fucking get this vaccine to work. He has been forced to resign. And Marx also was the guy who was in charge of vaccine safety in the US, right? And he's forced out and he said in a statement for CNN, I mean, you can read the whole thing somewhere, but quote, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary.

This is RFK Jr. But rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies. So that's good. That's, that's, that's the guy who used to be in charge of our country's vaccine safety going like yeah, this guy wanted me to just fucking lie about vaccines constantly. So that's great. That's fun. So before we get into the people who is also who's bringing in to do his like, unbelievably

fake hack bullshit, vaccine study stuff, we should talk a bit about the measles outbreak in Texas. Now the reason that this isn't getting more coverage is that this is going to get a really significant amount of coverage on this show in the near future when when those episodes are done. This is going to get significant coverage. For now, what I think is sort of important about this is that so there's been an outbreak of measles, which like there should not be outbreaks of Measles we have defeated measles. We have the vaccine you can take it

It's it's part of the MMR vaccine you take it and then you don't get measles but there are massive, you know, like communities who are fucking not vaccinating and as like in large part because of the fucking anti vaccine shit that's being spread by people like RFK jr. And part because of the fucking anti-vaccine shit that's being spread by people like RFK Jr. And faced with this, RFK Jr. has done a bunch of unbelievably mealy-mouth bullshit about his personal choice to do vaccines, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then also did a whole thing about how he was going to have the government send vitamin A to like combat measles, which is just nonsense, right? Like, so this is obviously just a complete fucking fiasco.

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who exactly is running this, whether this is like the Department of Health and Human Services is like a broader organization or just the CDC, but he's trying to set up a bunch of people to like basically cook the books and Try to publish some shit that shows a link between vaccines and autism It's genuinely deeply murky and unclear as to who's doing what right now But one of the people who's been brought in to do this is David Gere who is oh god. Oh boy

I mean even by the standards of of guy whose job it is to like cook evidence to make it look like there's a connection between vaccines and autism, even by their standards, gear is like an absolute fucking hack. So we talked about Andrew Wakefield on this show, and there is weirdly a Wakefield connection here too. So Wakefield is the doctor who originally cooked up like a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. Gear is from like a slightly different faction of these cranks and this is the faction that's more that's like the most closely aligned with R.F.K. Jr. and this is the faction that thinks that like weird methylmercury or

whatever the fuck in some older vaccines was causing autism which like no it wasn't But he you know he and his dad Mark here like did a whole bunch of work to try to sort of establish this evidence I'm gonna read this from NBC Just describing their work quote the gears Conducted research from a makeshift laboratory in their car in their carpeted wood paneled suburban Maryland basement. So get there, they're doing this shit from their basement! Published several studies, many of which were retracted, and promoted an unproven treatment for autism that cost families tens of thousands of dollars

and included injections of Lupron, a drug used for prostate cancer and early puberty. In children, it's only approved for precocious puberty and comes with side effects including bone damage, heart issues, and seizures. They diagnosed kids with precocious puberty without proper testing and misled parents into thinking they were signing up for an approved autism therapy. A 2011 Maryland Board of Physicians investigation found the gears that violated standards of care So to back up for a second right a they claimed that mercury and vaccines is causing autism B They claim to be able to treat it with puberty like they can cure

Autism with a puberty blocker. Yes Also extremely funny given like you know all of the these people are like, you know What trying to ban puberty blockers now give it to them. That's that's fine We're gonna cure autism by giving all these autistic kids puberty blockers and making them trans Sure sure. Let's go for it. Let's give that a shot I'm sure I'm sure that won't create a whole new problem for them. Yeah. Yeah that uh that a bone damage thing isn't real But that's fine. Yeah Unfortunately, this is one of the other problems is this is like

You get a lot of sources that are just fucking making shit up about these fucking diseases to be fair I also am probably I'm unfamiliar with this exact Cubity suppressant. Yeah, I don't think the problems general, yeah, you know, the bone density loss of blockers is mostly mostly negligible. Yeah. So again, again, this guy is like I found the cure for autism and it's puberty blockers. Very funny. Oh, you know, I do know a lot of autistic people that have gotten, how do I say this?

They've seemed more comfortable once they've transitioned. I guess I'll say it like that. Look, I... Being on the right puberty blocker is better for an autistic kid than going through puberty if you are trans. But, come on! Come on! This also shows how like the attack on puberty blockers for you know quote-unquote trans minors is completely nonsense because These drugs have been used for cis children to cease early onset puberty. These are fully reversible Yeah, these are used for cis children. It's used by these like hacks and weirdos to quote-unquote cure autism Yeah, by these same people as an autism cure for the vaccines.

Oh, my God. Even though these are the same like drugs, these quote unquote like chemical castration drugs, as Matt Walsh would put it, are now trying to be banned for for for trans children. So, you know, hypocrisy always, always, always matters. It's always it's always important to point out their hypocrisy because that's how we win So here this is one one more step towards victory garrison garrison Putting on hypocrisy is important because morale is a terrain of struggle. It makes you feel good and that's a little bit important

Average John Stewart post but okay, let's continue John Stewart post but okay let's continue. So his father Mark Gear who he was doing a bunch of this research with was short of his medical license now David Gear actually amazingly amazingly was not short of his medical license and Gear do you want to guess why he wasn't short of his medical license? He didn't have one. He didn't fucking have one! So instead instead he was prosecuted for doing this shit without a medical license he also doesn't have a medical degree he has like a liberal arts degree

that that rules these these liberal arts students are giving our kids transgender hormones many such cases he's like the only person I've ever seen who actually genuinely did do like dangerous and unauthorized like fucking like medical like unauthorized medical experiments on on children with puberty blockers Like he's the only one. Yeah, this is the first instance. I've like heard of like mass unethical use of puberty suppressing drugs It's a fucking anti-vaxxer This is the guy they're bringing in to like to cook up a connection between vaccines and autism using like fucking bears data or whatever

So investigative journal is Brian dear who is I think probably most famous to people who've watched like an age bomber guy video As the guy who brought down distraight sex doctor to Angie Wakefield Dear like also wrote about this guy like in his like unbelievably dogshit study about So he publishes like an unbelievably dogshit study about like the the mercury and vaccines causes autism Whatever the fuck and it gets basically like immediately obliterated the moment autism like activists discover it and they're like holy fucking shit like these people are evil. I'm gonna read a quote from Brian Deer's article about it.

One of Miss Siddell's, that's the person who uh like the the the autism like advocate, activist who like discovered this stuff, uh of her complaints concerning the GEAR is a parent institutional review. The seven member IRB institutional review board consists of Mark and Dave GEAR, Dr. GEAR's wife, two of his business associates and two mothers of autistic children, one of whom has publicly acknowledged that her son is the patient subject of Dr. GEAR and the other whom is a plaintiff and three pending vaccine injury claims. So the IRB, right? So this is like an ethical sort of review board thing that you're supposed

to go through to get your studies like approved. So the IRB for the study, again, is these two guys, his dad's fucking wife, two of the business associates and the mothers of two autistic children who think that vaccines cause autism and are like one of whom is in a lawsuit about it.

And the other one is taking the fucking puberty blockers to try to cure the autism. So this is the guy who is being brought in to do the book cooking is a guy with no medical license, no medical degree, who had to retract his papers because they were bullshit. Yeah, also, and this is something that's common between him and RFK Jr. is all these people, they think that like, and this is going to be relevant when we get to the sort of HIV AIDS. Part of this is that these people think that diseases are caused by malnutrition and not by, you know, like diseases.

And they think that you can treat them with just being healthy instead of like vaccines. And you know, this is their worldview, right? These people are sort of eugenicists. This is also why they, like one of the reasons why they fucking hate autism so much is that they're just, you know, just on a sort of political level. Like that's just, that's just sort of, that's just what their ideology is. Imagine how many skilled drone pilots they're going to lose. It's really going to backfire on them.

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Okay so let's let's talk about the last group of things here which is another series of massive budget cuts that they're doing this is another thing where they have a giant list of grants that they're fucking cutting. This is another like anti DEI. And so, you know, there's a lot of the things that I guess you would expect from one of these like you can only study white people ones. So like, there are a whole bunch of programs in this list of like grants that they're cutting that are like studying, you know, racism in medicine and like the the differing medical outcomes between people of different races because they're getting different levels of medical care because of the environments that they're in. And this is all stuff that like, you know, these people do not want there to be research demonstrating

that like racism exists in the medical system because it's just extremely bad for there just to be objective evidence that there is racism and that it's bad and that it kills people. So another very bleak thing that I haven't seen much coverage of is that a lot of these grants were funding research into trans health care and also the effects of like violence against trans people and things like mental health. health, there's, you know, and this is also something that's devastating because like, like the state of trans medicine, it's like, we know things that are safe and we know things that work, which is just letting people transition. But also there's so much more stuff that we need in terms of like hormone regimes that like work better, right? And things like that. And also like, you know, I'm just sort of like basic health outcome stuff. And yeah, these people do not want anyone to know exactly how bad that their fucking transphobia is affecting the people that they're inflicting it on.

And so, yeah, they're like, fuck it. We'll just get rid of all these people's funding. There's also a whole bunch of stuff that has to do with COVID. I'm just going to read the description of one of the fucking grants they cut to give you a sense of like the shit that they're cutting. Development of a handheld rapid air sensing system to monitor and quantify SARS-CoV-2 and aerosols in real time, which is actually would be

an unbelievably useful thing, right? Like a system that could detect fucking COVID, like aerosols like in real time and tell you that there's fucking COVID in the air Staggeringly useful they don't fucking want it one of the big things that they cut is like, you know We talked about this with sort of like cutting my programs that study structural racism in medicine They basically went on a like a county by county basis and found every single grant Like state by state kind of by county city by city every single grant that talks about studying the effects of COVID on non-white people. You know, and they're doing this. I think people have forgotten about

this. But one of the things that R.F.K. Jr. said, like, I think this is during the campaign, was he had this giant rant about how COVID was, like, specifically targeted to leave Chinese people and Jews alive, which is great. that is how he put it. Someone should probably report that to Trump's anti-Semitism task force. Yeah, yeah. You know, hall monitor, whatever. No one cares anymore.

Yeah, I mean, they're just, you know, so they're just trying to destroy all this stuff. They've also just like, in blocks, just like got rid of every single fucking thing that was funding like any program that was like mental health care as a block thing. They're just cutting all of it. So that's going to make everyone even more normal than we already fucking are. See, actually, I agree with this because this is the one thing where I think the lifestyle choice thing does matter because I just read yaoi when I'm sad and it fixes me and if everyone does that I think we don't need any of these other mental health services. What you do when you're manic though? Read more yaoi. Because famously the yaoi reading demographic, the most mentally stable and normal population.

Oh, God. One of the other ones that's unbelievably concerning is again, like county by county going through and cutting funding for like things that promote child vaccination. They are systemically trying to cut off kids from getting vaccines and they're trying to get rid of anything that opposes like Their efforts to try to convince everyone to like all parents to fucking not have your kids get vaccines They also cut a whole bunch of grants for rapid disease response Which is great. We'll get to the exact reason why that's like so fucking terrifying in a second in the like very very immediate term They also have killed an unbleak, 145 grants for HIV.

And this is a whole bunch of different HIV programs. They are killing funding for distributing and getting people to use PrEP, which is a pill that like massively helps prevent HIV infections, especially if you were a trans woman and you are having sex like you should get on PrEP. Or a twink, I will say. Thank you. Yeah, the uptake rates for trans women are specifically lower, which is the thing that

we know because we have these fucking funding and these and we're not going to have that shit anymore because they're they're cutting all the fucking funding for these for these fucking research programs. I sometimes do forget that there are trans women with different like lived like sexual backgrounds than me. Because coming out of coming out of twink culture, it's like ingrained. Like your co host who permanently has only ever come out of lesbian culture. Yes, no, because in in in twink culture getting on prep is is ingrained pretty hard at this

point. Yeah, well, it is ingrained pretty hard at this point yeah well it's it's ingrained in a lot of places but there's places where it isn't and those places are where things go very very bad very quickly which is why obviously they're they're yeah eliminating the fucking research for this because they want to fucking kill queer people like they think they think that hiv is a fucking lifestyle choice uh rfk junior particular things is because of Poppers. Which is now leading to the Poppers raids. Red alert, everybody. Red alert.

It's getting pretty scary out there. So it's really fucking bleak. They've cut, you know, they're trying to just fucking get rid of this because these people are just fucking unhinged virulent homophobes and transphobes and yeah they want to fucking cut these programs because they think it'll hurt us. They've also laid off the entire office of infectious diseases and HIV AIDS policy staff. Is that bad? Oh it's bad.

Here's a C.B.S. Yeah so they do a child they're one of the other groups that does childhood vaccination efforts. They also run the fucking national vaccine program Which nobody knows what's gonna happen to it now because again the thing that was supposed to run it It's just fucking gone. So who the fuck knows what's happening with that now They are probably going to just completely destroy Trump's like giant Trump actually in his first term had a giant program to like and HIV that like

Kind of did stuff because it was someone else's program that Trump just kind of implemented. We're getting so close to the HIV vaccine. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, and so who fucking knows it's probably just completely fucked. Yeah, this is going to have just unbelievably hideous consequences on millions and millions of people and they, that's not even that they don't give a shit is that they think it's cool and funny and based when people like us fucking die now on the other hands the rest of the US

population is about to run into the same fucking thing that all of these stupid ass bankers thought which is that oh Trump will just fuck with the queers and leave us alone no we're gonna close in the same place that I closed the last time I talked about fucking RFK jr. which is the fucking bird flu which is that he wants the solution to the bird flu is he wants to fucking let it rip and he just wants to just like be like oh we can just like take the birds to survive the bird flu and we'll just let the we'll just let it spread and just use those ones and those ones will be healthy now so the thing about this bird flu right is that it

kills within three to four days immunologist Matt Coase in Scientific Americas describes how this thing again Within three to four days has an a 90 to 100 percent kill rate So, you know, you can't just do this right because it'll just it just fucking kills all the birds He doesn't want to fucking vaccinate the birds Which is the thing that like if you want to stop this but this fucking pandemic from spreading did you need to do it? right and Once again, I need I need to emphasize enough that when I when I when I talked to virologists about this, they said that like

letting the bird flu rip through all the fucking bird populations, right, just letting it fucking spread and letting it kill everything until you only have the ones that like didn't die, is if you were like trying to cook up conditions, like field conditions specifically to try to get it to develop a mutation to spread to humans. This is what you would do. Is you would just let it fucking spread uncontrolled and kill everything. So this is what we're doing at the same time as again, anti-vaxxers are fucking running, running our fucking vaccine services as we are cutting the staff of cutting the grant funding for people who do response to rapid response to emerging diseases as we are cutting the fucking entire

policy staff for the Office of Infectious Diseases, they are building a fucking pandemic. And all these fucking people think that COVID was fucking cooked up in a lab and what they are doing is like they are now doing the thing they are accusing everyone else of doing, which is they are fucking attempting to implement a policy to cook up a fucking play in a lab. Except it's not going to be in a lab, it's going to be in America's fucking factory farms, and we are all going to suffer the consequences of it. Well, I assume you saw the statement from Cantor analysts on Monday, the Wall Street investment firm.

This founder was like a really was a really big Trump donor, was on the inauguration committee, but two of their analysts put out a statement today calling to reevaluate R.F.K. Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, calling out his quote unquote apparent anti-science and libertarian agenda, saying it will put people's lives in jeopardy to advance a discredited theory on vaccines. Look, I will say this, like, there are a lot of risks in the Trump coalition. RFK Jr. and his people cannot fucking be allowed

to run these institutions. They need to be fucking run out now. If we do not do this now, millions of people are going to die. I have been saying this. I am going to continue to say this because you can see in real time, all of the things that are going to lead

to all of these people fucking dying. And, you know, his position is not incredibly secure in this coalition, right? You can see in real time all of the things that are going to lead to all of these people fucking dying. And you know, his position is not incredibly secure in this coalition, right? Like there are lots of sectors of capital who don't want the entire fucking population of the United States to die in a plague. Yeah, after Carl's grandson's resignation, tourist analysts also put out a statement advocating for vaccine use and specifically against RFK Jr. and his vaccine rhetoric. Biotech investors also spread similar anti RFK

Jr. rhetoric over the weekend following Mark's resignation. So yeah go fucking I don't know I don't know I don't know exactly which public official you pressure or who you go scream at to try to get rid of this guy before you fucking gets us all killed but go do that. I don't know go harass or like legislator or whatever or like find Find the nearest person who can can can be yelled at who will convey this Stand outside your local CDC office sign and protest the CDC The hospitals are empty. It's fake. Oh god The hospitals are empty, it's fake. Oh god.

And on that note, getting us yet another fucking one of those... Actually, do they even do the misinformation labels anymore? Unlike Spotify and shit and like YouTube? Oh, of course not. Oh god. We lost the elections, how happened it? Truth and reasonable list lost the election. Sorry.

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