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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine

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The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.
Mr. Siri has also filed a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines; challenged, and in some cases quashed, Covid vaccine mandates around the country; sued federal agencies for the disclosure of records related to vaccine approvals; and subjected prominent vaccine scientists to grueling videotaped depositions.
Much of Mr. Siri’s work — including the polio petition filed in 2022 — has been on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, a nonprofit whose founder is a close ally of Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Siri also represented Mr. Kennedy during his presidential campaign.
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Mr. Kennedy, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for health secretary, has said that he does not want to take away access to any vaccines. But as he prepares for his confirmation hearing and plans a fresh health agenda, his continuing close partnership with Mr. Siri suggests that vaccine policy will be under sharp scrutiny. It is a chilling prospect to many public health leaders, especially those who recall the deadly toll of some vaccine-mediated diseases.
At the Trump transition headquarters in Florida, Mr. Siri has joined Mr. Kennedy in questioning and choosing candidates for top health positions, according to someone who observed the interactions but insisted on anonymity to disclose private conversations. They have asked candidates about their views of vaccines, the person said.
Mr. Kennedy has privately expressed interest in having Mr. Siri serve in the Health and Human Services Department’s top legal job, general counsel. However, Mr. Siri has suggested he may have more influence outside the administration. At his law firm, Siri & Glimstad, he oversees about 40 professionals working on vaccine cases and policy.
“Somebody on the outside needs to be petitioning them,” he said on a podcast in late November.
Either way, it’s clear that his voice will be heard at the highest levels.
“I love Aaron Siri,” Mr. Kennedy said in a clip played on a recent episode of a podcast hosted by Del Bigtree, who is Mr. Kennedy’s former campaign communications director and the founder of the Informed Consent Action Network, which describes itself as a “medical freedom” nonprofit. “There’s nobody who’s been a greater asset to the medical freedom movement than him.”

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Like Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Siri insists he does not want to take vaccines away from anyone who wants them. “You want to get the vaccine — it’s America, a free country.” he told Arizona legislators last year after laying out his concerns about the vaccines for polio and other illnesses.
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He did not mention the petitions he has lodged on behalf of ICAN with the Food and Drug Administration, asking regulators to withdraw or suspend approval of vaccines not only for polio, but also for hepatitis B.
Mr. Siri is also representing ICAN in petitioning the F.D.A. to “pause distribution” of 13 other vaccines, including combination products that cover tetanus, diphtheria, polio and hepatitis A, until their makers disclose details about aluminum, an ingredient researchers have associated with a small increase in asthma cases
Mr. Siri declined to be interviewed, but said all of his petitions were filed on behalf of clients. Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Mr. Kennedy, said Mr. Siri has been advising Mr. Kennedy but has not discussed his petitions with any of the health nominees. She added, “Mr. Kennedy has long said that he wants transparency in vaccines and to give people choice.”
 
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That Siri, it's a trip.



Kennedy, a leading vaccine sceptic, has insisted he has no plans to revoke vaccines should he be confirmed by the US Senate for the health secretary position. But his close ties with Siri are raising concerns about the incoming Trump administration’s intentions, given the lawyer’s intimate involvement in the anti-vaccine movement.



You guys are going to give yourself an aneurysm if you don't fuxking
Relax.
 
ANYCHawk said:
So it appears this article is pointing out we did some science. Killed some monkeys and eradicated a horrible disease.

Someone wanna let me know why that's bad?
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It wasn’t eradicated. It was reclassified to fool dupes into thinking the magical vaccine fairy had saved them.

Dr. Bernard Greenberg, head of the department of biostatistics of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and chairman of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards of the American Public Health Association, stated in 1960:

Prior to 1954 any physician who reported paralytic poliomyelitis was doing his patient a service by way of subsidizing the cost of hospitalization and was being community-minded in reporting a communicable disease. The criterion of diagnosis at that time in most health departments followed the World Health Organization definition: "Spinal paralytic poliomyelitis: signs and symptoms of nonparalytic poliomyelitis with the addition of partial or complete paralysis of one or more muscle groups, detected on two examinations at least 24 hours apart." Note that "two examinations at least 24 hours apart" was all that was required. . . . Laboratory confirmation and presence of residual [longer than 24 hours] was not required.[13]
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The practice among doctors before 1954 was to diagnose all patients who experienced even short-term paralysis (24 hours) with "polio." In 1955, the year the Salk vaccine was released, the diagnostic criteria became much more stringent. If there was no residual paralysis 60 days after onset, the disease was not considered to be paralytic polio. This change made a huge difference in the documented prevalence of paralytic polio because most people who experience paralysis recover prior to 60 days. Dr. Greenberg said:

The change in 1955 meant that we were reporting a new disease, namely, paralytic poliomyelitis with a longer-lasting paralysis.Furthermore diagnostic procedures have continued to be refined. Coxsackie virus and aseptic meningitis have been distinguished from paralytic poliomyelitis. Prior to 1954 large numbers of these cases were mislabeled as paralytic poliomyelitis. Thus, simply by changes in diagnostic criteria, the number of paralytic cases was predetermined to decrease in 1955-1957, whether or not any vaccine was used.[14]
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joelbc1 said:
My guess is that most of these dumb bastards were not around when polio was making its annual summer rounds during the 1950’s, filling hospitals with adults and kids with various degrees of paralysis and death. History may not repeat itself, but if ignored, it will definitely rhyme with the past. FREEDUMB you dumb phuques!
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My father would tell people the two days he remembered most as an adult was the day Japan surrendered and WW2 ended…and the day they announced their was an effective polio vaccine available. I believe all parents of the day breathed a deep sigh of relief that day (on both days).
 
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In the fear-baked summers of polio, many parents were totally unaware that exposure to DDT alone induced symptoms that were completely indistinguishable from poliomyelitis--even in the absence of a virus.[30]

Acute gastroenteritis occurs, with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea usually associated with extreme tenesmus [the feeling of having to pass stool with inability to do so]. Coryza [head cold], cough and persistent sore throat are common, often followed by a persistent or recurrent feeling of constriction or a "lump" in the throat; occasionally the sensation of constriction extends substernally and to the back and may be associated with severe pain in either arm. Pain in the joints, generalized muscle weakness, apprehension and exhausting fatigue are usual; the latter are often so severe in the acute stage as to be described by some patients as "paralysis."[31]
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The paralysis that the world witnessed in the first part of the 20th century was largely from toxins in the environment like DDT, lead, and arsenic. Those toxins seriously disrupt mucosal immunity, allowing a previously benign virus to bypass the innate immune system and cause paralysis and other clinical symptoms. Where those chemicals are still used today, you will see reports of paralysis, which used to be called polio, but authorities now call it "acute flaccid paralysis."

How could doctors in the 1940s and 1950s possibly have distinguished a case that presented like DDT poisoning from poliomyelitis? They couldn't. After all, most people thought DDT was completely nontoxic and even healthy. These toxicity cases would have been diagnosed as polio and treated as such, often with a crippling outcome. It is not surprising that Dr. Fred Klenner was able to cure 60 out of 60 cases (100 percent) of polio (including bulbar polio) with the detoxifying agent, vitamin C, given in high intravenous doses.[32],[33] Doctors were on the lookout for polio but not DDT poisoning.

Despite the fact that DDT is a highly lethal poison for all species of animals, the myth has become prevalent among the general population that it is safe for man in virtually any quantity. Not only is it used in households with reckless abandon, so that sprays and aerosols are inhaled, the solutions are permitted to contaminate the skin. Bedding and other textiles are saturated. Food and food utensils are contaminated. DDT is also widely used in restaurants and food processing establishments and as an insecticide on crops. Cattle, sheep and other food animals are extensively dusted with it and large areas are indiscriminately sprayed from airplanes for mosquito control. DDT is difficult and usually completely impossible to remove from contaminated foods (it is not affected by cooking) and it accumulates in the fat and appears in the milk of animals who feed on sprayed pasture or on contaminated fodder or who lick the DDT from their hides. As DDT is a cumulative poison, it is inevitable that large-scale intoxication of the American population would occur. In 1944, Smith and Stohlman of the National Institutes of Health, after an extensive study of the cumulative toxicity of DDT, pointed out, "The toxicity of DDT combined with its cumulative action and absorbability from the skin places a definite health hazard on its use."[34]
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This following diagram reveals the parallel between polio epidemics in the United States and tonnage of pesticide (most of which was DDT) production from 1940 to 1970.

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It's no small wonder that polio appeared to be such a vicious entity from the late 1800s and up until DDT was phased out of use in the United States. But that didn't happen until after a vaccine for polio was fully embraced as a savior of humanity in 1954. The United States was considered free of wild polio as of 1979.

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tBW’s paternal grandfather was one of the unlucky ones that contracted polio as a child. It didn’t kill him obviously and he was a highly successful businessman and earned a pilot’s license as a young man despite complete paralysis on the entire right side of his body. A really great guy BTW. I think he’d have some strong words to share with RFK Jr. about his take on polio vaccines.
 
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lucas80 said:
How do you feel about iron lungs? Your party has gone crazy. Although, I did see that Mitch McConnell released a statement today noting the value of the vaccine. Maybe the Turtle is growing a pair.
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If RFK Jr does somecrazyhow succeed in banning the polio vaccine then I might design a new iron lung that doubles as a tanning bed. That way, if/when you recover from the polio your skin will have a nice healthy bronze and you’re all set to go on vacation.

Lemons ——> Lemonade
 
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lucas80 said:
How do you feel about iron lungs? Your party has gone crazy. Although, I did see that Mitch McConnell released a statement today noting the value of the vaccine. Maybe the Turtle is growing a pair.
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In 2023, Pfizer donated $1 million to the fundraising efforts of the Kentucky GOP to expand the McConnell House (named after Cocaine Mitch).

He’s a dutiful little pharma whore; of COURSE he’s going to defend their junk products.
 
MichaelKeller99 said:
In 2023, Pfizer donated $1 million to the fundraising efforts of the Kentucky GOP to expand the McConnell House (named after Cocaine Mitch).

He’s a dutiful little pharma whore; of COURSE he’s going to defend their junk products.
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The polio vaccine is junk?

Can’t wait for the copy and paste articles that’ll come from this basic question.
 
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MichaelKeller99 said:
In 2023, Pfizer donated $1 million to the fundraising efforts of the Kentucky GOP to expand the McConnell House (named after Cocaine Mitch).

He’s a dutiful little pharma whore; of COURSE he’s going to defend their junk products.
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Look, dude…I understand a certain amount of skepticism toward Big Pharma. Like a lot of other trillion dollar industries, they often put profits before safety. Fad diet pills are always at the top of my furrowed eyebrow list.

But the polio vaccine is not a “junk product”. It is one of the greatest medical achievements in human history. It has saved countless millions of lives and spared millions of others from having to live in a wheelchair.

If Kennedy shows up to his confirmation hearing yammering about banning the polio vaccine, they’re going to send him home before they even get to the first smoke break.

There are some nutjob Republican senators. But there are not 50 nutjob Republican senators.
 
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MichaelKeller99 said:
It wasn’t eradicated. It was reclassified to fool dupes into thinking the magical vaccine fairy had saved them.

Dr. Bernard Greenberg, head of the department of biostatistics of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and chairman of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards of the American Public Health Association, stated in 1960:


The practice among doctors before 1954 was to diagnose all patients who experienced even short-term paralysis (24 hours) with "polio." In 1955, the year the Salk vaccine was released, the diagnostic criteria became much more stringent. If there was no residual paralysis 60 days after onset, the disease was not considered to be paralytic polio. This change made a huge difference in the documented prevalence of paralytic polio because most people who experience paralysis recover prior to 60 days. Dr. Greenberg said:
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He is a moron. He is surprised they became more sophisticated in diagnosing in the 50’s. It still ignores the fact thousands of people lived with polio for their entire lives. Including my great uncle. Because someone told him it wasn’t real he believes it. Polio was real there are currently isolated cases still around. Rotary’s goal is to eradicate it. Idiots like Keller and Kennedy will allow it to likely pop up again.
 
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Look, dude…I understand a certain amount of skepticism toward Big Pharma. Like a lot of other trillion dollar industries, they often put profits before safety. Fad diet pills are always at the top of my furrowed eyebrow list.

But the polio vaccine is not a “junk product”. It is one of the greatest medical achievements in human history. It has saved countless millions of lives and spared millions of others from having to live in a wheelchair.

If Kennedy shows up to his confirmation hearing yammering about banning the polio vaccine, they’re going to send him home before they even get to the first smoke break.

There are some nutjob Republican senators. But there are not 50 nutjob Republican senators.
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Agree to disagree.

For the record, I have 0.00% confidence that even if his nomination is approved nothing will be done to rein in Big Pharma any more than Musk and Rummyswampnuts are going to cut trillions of government waste.

Systemic corruption.
 
TJ8869 said:
Look, dude…I understand a certain amount of skepticism toward Big Pharma. Like a lot of other trillion dollar industries, they often put profits before safety. Fad diet pills are always at the top of my furrowed eyebrow list.

But the polio vaccine is not a “junk product”. It is one of the greatest medical achievements in human history. It has saved countless millions of lives and spared millions of others from having to live in a wheelchair.

If Kennedy shows up to his confirmation hearing yammering about banning the polio vaccine, they’re going to send him home before they even get to the first smoke break.

There are some nutjob Republican senators. But there are not 50 nutjob Republican senators.
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About time you grow a pair
 
MichaelKeller99 said:
It wasn’t eradicated. It was reclassified to fool dupes into thinking the magical vaccine fairy had saved them.

Dr. Bernard Greenberg, head of the department of biostatistics of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and chairman of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards of the American Public Health Association, stated in 1960:


The practice among doctors before 1954 was to diagnose all patients who experienced even short-term paralysis (24 hours) with "polio." In 1955, the year the Salk vaccine was released, the diagnostic criteria became much more stringent. If there was no residual paralysis 60 days after onset, the disease was not considered to be paralytic polio. This change made a huge difference in the documented prevalence of paralytic polio because most people who experience paralysis recover prior to 60 days. Dr. Greenberg said:
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joelbc1 said:
My guess is that most of these dumb bastards were not around when polio was making its annual summer rounds during the 1950’s, filling hospitals with adults and kids with various degrees of paralysis and death. History may not repeat itself, but if ignored, it will definitely rhyme with the past. FREEDUMB you dumb phuques!
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My uncle had polio - he was adopted after being abused - and if Trump allows any American kid to get this again…because of idiocy…damn him.
 
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TJ8869 said:
Look, dude…I understand a certain amount of skepticism toward Big Pharma. Like a lot of other trillion dollar industries, they often put profits before safety. Fad diet pills are always at the top of my furrowed eyebrow list.

But the polio vaccine is not a “junk product”. It is one of the greatest medical achievements in human history. It has saved countless millions of lives and spared millions of others from having to live in a wheelchair.

If Kennedy shows up to his confirmation hearing yammering about banning the polio vaccine, they’re going to send him home before they even get to the first smoke break.

There are some nutjob Republican senators. But there are not 50 nutjob Republican senators.
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My great uncle worked on the polio vaccine with Jonas Salk. Part of the team.
 
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cigaretteman said:
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.
Mr. Siri has also filed a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines; challenged, and in some cases quashed, Covid vaccine mandates around the country; sued federal agencies for the disclosure of records related to vaccine approvals; and subjected prominent vaccine scientists to grueling videotaped depositions.
Much of Mr. Siri’s work — including the polio petition filed in 2022 — has been on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, a nonprofit whose founder is a close ally of Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Siri also represented Mr. Kennedy during his presidential campaign.
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Mr. Kennedy, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for health secretary, has said that he does not want to take away access to any vaccines. But as he prepares for his confirmation hearing and plans a fresh health agenda, his continuing close partnership with Mr. Siri suggests that vaccine policy will be under sharp scrutiny. It is a chilling prospect to many public health leaders, especially those who recall the deadly toll of some vaccine-mediated diseases.
At the Trump transition headquarters in Florida, Mr. Siri has joined Mr. Kennedy in questioning and choosing candidates for top health positions, according to someone who observed the interactions but insisted on anonymity to disclose private conversations. They have asked candidates about their views of vaccines, the person said.
Mr. Kennedy has privately expressed interest in having Mr. Siri serve in the Health and Human Services Department’s top legal job, general counsel. However, Mr. Siri has suggested he may have more influence outside the administration. At his law firm, Siri & Glimstad, he oversees about 40 professionals working on vaccine cases and policy.
“Somebody on the outside needs to be petitioning them,” he said on a podcast in late November.
Either way, it’s clear that his voice will be heard at the highest levels.
“I love Aaron Siri,” Mr. Kennedy said in a clip played on a recent episode of a podcast hosted by Del Bigtree, who is Mr. Kennedy’s former campaign communications director and the founder of the Informed Consent Action Network, which describes itself as a “medical freedom” nonprofit. “There’s nobody who’s been a greater asset to the medical freedom movement than him.”

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Like Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Siri insists he does not want to take vaccines away from anyone who wants them. “You want to get the vaccine — it’s America, a free country.” he told Arizona legislators last year after laying out his concerns about the vaccines for polio and other illnesses.
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He did not mention the petitions he has lodged on behalf of ICAN with the Food and Drug Administration, asking regulators to withdraw or suspend approval of vaccines not only for polio, but also for hepatitis B.
Mr. Siri is also representing ICAN in petitioning the F.D.A. to “pause distribution” of 13 other vaccines, including combination products that cover tetanus, diphtheria, polio and hepatitis A, until their makers disclose details about aluminum, an ingredient researchers have associated with a small increase in asthma cases
Mr. Siri declined to be interviewed, but said all of his petitions were filed on behalf of clients. Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Mr. Kennedy, said Mr. Siri has been advising Mr. Kennedy but has not discussed his petitions with any of the health nominees. She added, “Mr. Kennedy has long said that he wants transparency in vaccines and to give people choice.”
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This has already been debunked, Matilda! How many of jo’s precious ILLEGALS are current on ALL vaccinations?

We won…you lost…cry harder…
 
You think when Kennedy talks to him he says, “Hey Siri…”. That would be pretty cool. “Hey Siri…put a stop on life saying vaccines and replace all Dunkin’ Donuts with pull up bars.”
 
mnole03 said:
That’s only one side of the story. What about all of the iron lung manufacturers that went out of business? Those were good American jobs
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Like everything else in America they’ve been replaced by Chinese companies.

Per the AHA, there are currently about 62,000 operable ventilators in American hospitals, with approximately half designated for neonatal/pediatric use.

In contrast, iron lung usage peaked at approximately 1,200 in the 1950’s (smithsonian).

Those famous pictures of rows and rows of iron lungs were propaganda designed to terrorize the public. And apparently it worked quite well.
 
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