Keep in mind too a vaccine that you may get in one, two, or just a limited number of doses is very different from a medication that you may take every single day for years. Since it’s not ethical to give a person a vaccine and then try to shove a deadly virus up that person’s nose, one way to study vaccines is to track over time which of those who got the vaccine ended up getting infected versus which of those who got placebo. A vaccine that is designed to prevent an infection and disease is not the same as a cancer drug that is designed to treat someone who already has a disease. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to testing. It is also important to emphasize that proper testing of any medical product should be appropriately tailored to the specific properties of that product. Oh gee, “no credible studies” versus “over 100 studies” is kind of a big difference. For example, during the podcast, Kennedy clubbed listeners with the following claim, “On the side that shows autism is caused by vaccines, there are over 100 studies.” Oh gee, over 100 studies? Oh gee, that kind of went against what the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) says on their website: “Many scientists have studied this question, but no credible studies show that autism is caused by vaccines.” Oh gee, it also went against what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Autism Speaks, and numerous other websites say. Well, after that “orgy,” there were various “Oh gee”-deserving comments made by Kennedy on Maher’s Club Random podcast that, oh gee, went unchecked by Maher, too. Anna Merlan already described in a VICE article Kennedy’s June 15 appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience as “an orgy of unchecked vaccine misinformation, some conspiracy-mongering about 5G technology and wifi, and, of course, Rogan once again praising ivermectin, an ineffective faux COVID treatment,” as I covered for Forbes.
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