Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his team at Health and Human Services (Hatfield and the rest) are not anti-vax. Gene therapy, i.e., mRNA technology, this is not standard vaccine technology—the technology touted by progressives as having saved millions of lives over the last several decades—but a novel experimental product that has caused widespread harm across world regions where citizens were either manipulated or coerced into submitting their bodies—and the bodies of their children—to the jab.
What RFK, Jr. and his team are doing is putting science and public safety before corporate profit by standing up to Big Pharma and subservient technocrats pushing new technologies.
Why were people censored (like me), deboosted (like me), and deplatformed (almost) by telling the truth about mRNA technologies? Why were dissenting physicians and other medical professionals canceled by their employers and Big Tech social media platforms? Why is the corporate media pro-mRNA? Because the Medical-Industrial Complex commands the prevailing administrative and media apparatuses. The answer to the last question is obvious: Big Pharma funds the legacy media through advertising (RFK, Jr. has a plan to deal with that, too).
This development, among other things, is why voting for Donald Trump in November 2024 was so vitally important. Why progressives think that Big Pharma is immune to the incentives that drive Big Ag, Big Chem, and other effective monopolies is a chief symptom of the pathological character of this worldview—a reflection of the corporatist mentality (see The Origins of the Medical-Industrial Complex). RFK, Jr. is taking on corporate power. He would not be in a position to do so if Trump had not won back the White House.
These are the same people who think that blocking the puberty of normally developing children, administering cross-sex hormones, and performing radical surgeries—the amputation of healthy breasts, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty—is not merely appropriate but humane acts of social justice. On the contrary, these are medical atrocities. The Medical-Industrial Complex—endocrinologists, psychiatrists, surgeons—embraces this ideology because it advances corporate profits and generates lucrative career paths.
As I argued recently on Freedom and Reason (see Medical Atrocities Then and Now: The Dark Continuity of Gender Affirming Care), this is what happens when corporate profits, ideology, and science become integrated. It’s what I (and others) have called “scientism.” In popular culture, we see it in buffoons like Steven Colbert prancing about on TV with dancers dressed as syringes. Media personalities work overtime to make those of us who can read and understand science appear as mouthbreathing neanderthals. Industry has a long history of this tactic, which anybody familiar with the Big Ag and Big Chem attacks on environmental activists and health advocates knows all too well.
I remember when many on the left understood this. But by around 2010, most of the left could no longer. Those who still could abandoned the left for higher rational grounds. This is why, before the decade was out, I could no longer associate myself with the left.
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