“We need to stop trusting the experts,” Kennedy told Tucker Carlson.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on the latest episode of Tucker Carlson’s podcast on Monday and it’s filled with the ramblings of a man completely detached from reality.
Kennedy falsely suggested vaccines cause autism, more or less endorsed the idea that Anthony Fauci should go to prison, and says that AI will allow the FDA to approve new drugs very quickly. It’s quite a mess.
These absolutely unhinged ideas wouldn’t be such a problem if this were any other fringe lunatic appearing on the podcast of a racist former Fox News host. But Kennedy happens to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services, a man who’s been given enormous power over America’s entire healthcare system thanks to Donald Trump.
I’m sorry, he wants to trust algorithms known to make shit up, over scientists who get paid by big pharma to lie? /s
scientists who get paid by big pharma to lie?
Low key, unironically. The FDA has a disturbing history of approving certain medications and treatments before they’ve been safely tested and restricting certain medications and treatments because they’re politically polarized. Elon’s brain chip keeps getting ignored by regulators. Weight loss drugs and smoking alternatives keep getting special treatment. Meanwhile, mild narcotics and modern contraceptives are constantly bottled up by partisan regulators.
The joke of all this is RFK Jr effectively doubling down on the politicized system under the cover of “Computer Said So”.
Republicans: “The vaccines were approved too quickly—they’re not safe!”
Also Republicans:
Sidenote: the vaccines were based on research that had been worked on for decades.
Made Fast, made safe, made effective.
Pick two*.
^*safe is not valid if fast is chosen^
Sugar pills and saline are decently safe and can be made pretty fast
Suglets are delicious. Especially sprayed with amphetamines.
Sounds like tictacs and Gatorade.
Am I not supposed to be operating off of those?
New measles treatment just dropped!
I dunno, the Covid vaccine got prioritized and through the process pretty fast.
The first mRNA vaccine for covid was synthesized within a month of the national emergency declaration. But there was about a year of trials and approvals before it was allowed to be mass distributed.
Which is still blindingly fast. It got EUA or emergency use authorization. Most drugs take 5-10y of trials not including the decade+ of basic R+D to reach approval.
A large reason for that speed was other mRNA vaccines in trials safely for a few decades and the adenovirus being in use for other vaccines already.
other mRNA vaccines in trials safely for a few decades
The Oxford/AstraZeneca adenoviral vaccine has some human testing history, but the mRNA technology had only previously been tested on animals.
Not the specific diseases(cause covid-19 didn’t exist), the technique/methodology. MERS and SARS are different things.
Adenovirus was used as far back as the 1963 (it had problems then), for “resporatory disease”. and was used for ebola vaccines as recent 2020. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9543183/#B84
mRNA (very much not DNA) was trialed in the 1990s to treat flu in mice and in a human rabies vaccine attempt in 2013. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/the-long-history-of-mrna-vaccines
That long history link isn’t very long. This seems to be better.
Before Covid only 132 humans over 2 efficacy (not safety) trials had experienced mRNA. Saying mRNA has had decades of safety trials is misleading.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine
The first (indirect) human mrna vaccine was trialed in 2001. A different direct infection trial was reported (completed and analyzed) in 2008 it was a safety and efficacy trial. Then there was the 2013 rabies trial (101 participants safety trial) then others for flu, zika, cmv, and chikungunya. This isn’t a very complete list of the trials that occurred as many of the early ones were for cancers.
You can see a more complete but not necessarily full list of in progress and completed mrna trials https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?intr=Mrna easily noted is that between the rabies vaccine and the HIV (both before covid19 existed) there are already over 151 people that received it and both trials were safety trials. That’s before the aforementioned cancer trials, your source is wrong. Unless it is for something rare safety trials are always done first or(more recently) in combination with the efficacy trial.
Not instantly though. They did the work, they just did it as fast as they possibly could.
In vaccine timelines pretty much instant no?
Every day, I see headlines that make me wonder how The Onion hasn’t gone out of business.
I mean, how do you even compete?
Tell me you don’t know how AI works without telling me you don’t know how AI or drug testing works.
That sentence is everything wrong with the world.
That fucking sentence did it for me. Jesus this can be anymore like a 1984 prequel. Orwell was prescient.
is he attempting to smile or laugh in that photo? it’s so disturbing.
Probably trying to look at a solar eclipse.
If you forget for a second about all the deaths and suffering this ghoul is responsible for, you have to admit this is very funny
Ghoul is the correct term.
So far I haven’t seen AI that can affect real world physical objects which is a significant part of testing. I have a few guesses… Either he has a bunch of pull-shit he wants to sell that would never be FDA approved, he took a lot of money from AI companies, he thinks that AI these is like Star Trek and shit, or he’s a fucking idiot. My guess is that it’s a combination of all of these.
Depends if the AI is LLMs or task specific protein folding. How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
task specific protein folding
Gives you a model that can be tested in clinical trials. It doesn’t give you the results of clinical trials.
They’re the same. Just trained on different data.
No no. Protein folding is very different to attention mechanisms
Yes they are. AlphaFold in particular is designed in the same way as Stable Diffusion and all of the other drawing AIs and also uses transformations like llms. Protien structure is just another form of language using atomic elements and electromagnetic potentials as its rules.
They are only equivalent in the sense that both have an algorithm that is trying to find an optimal value in a solution space.
No. They’re built and based on the exact same technology and methodology
https://deepganteam.medium.com/using-llms-to-learn-about-alphafold-c6284fb67026
We found that using ChatGPT and Bard provided an excellent starting point to learn these unfamiliar concepts
Ha ha ha. Can you read. This article does not relate the two methodologies at all.
This was quite literally his conspiracy theorists groups’ entire complaint! Wtf
Your mistake is looking for consistency when it’s actually just people and bots pushing false narratives. It’s not an honest discussion where participants are bound to the rules of logic; they’re just exploiting the fact that you think they’re engaging in discourse and behave accordingly.
I asked Copilot if my new medication that cures 100% of pancreatic cancer by giving 100% of the patients liver cancer would be approved, and it told me that it would receive ‘conditional approval’. So, that’s good.
Me, a retail health care consumer: “Are we talking about preventative treatments like vaccinations? Or mild narcotics like marijuana? Or contraceptives, like Plan B?”
RFK Jr: “Arrest that man.”
It’s only risking people’s health… What could go wrong…
New Drug: Worm Eggs.
Effects: Allows worms to hatch in brain which turn populace into dumb fucks
Eligibility: Everyone, delivered at birth to stave off personal growth.
AI: APPROVED!
Y’know whenever I hear someone talking about the tremendous benefits of turning decision-based processes over to AI, i think to myself, “Self,” i thinks, “that there is one of the stupidest motherfuckers alive today. Or a young programmer.”
Okay but hear me out: We replace the entire executive branch of the US government with AI. It’ll be roughly as prone to making shit up as the people in charge already are, but since it’s trained on data sets made by people it’ll probably act more in line with what people actually want.
Can confirm. One of those programmers is in my team.
