"Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.: “Did you say that the CDC was, quote, ‘The most corrupt federal agency in the history of the world?'” Kennedy: “Not the history of the world, but definitely within HHS.” . . .
"Democrats so enjoyed forcing Americans to do silly things during COVID, like starving their children of oxygen and letting Grandma die alone, that they leapt right back to their hectoring at the Senate hearing this week with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"Blithely unaware that public health authorities have become objects of seething hatred throughout the land, Democrats — and a few Republicans — harangued Kennedy for not trusting “science” and “experts.”
"Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., began the idiot-fest by accusing RFK of prevaricating during his confirmation hearing when he claimed to be “pro-safety and pro-science.” In fact, Inspector Clouseau charged, the secretary was promoting “fringe conspiracies.”
"Where have we heard about “fringe” theories before? As I recall, the last time was at the beginning of the pandemic, when actual experts (Martin Kulldorff, Harvard Medical School biostatistician, Jay Bhattacharya, doctor and public health economist at Stanford, and Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist at Oxford) published the Great Barrington Declaration, calling for focused protection for the vulnerable (old people) while leaving the rest of us alone.
"As everyone now knows — other than short-haired Karens in Manhattan claiming to have “long COVID” — that is exactly what we should have done.
"But at the time, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins called the authors “fringe epidemiologists.” The government’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, assured The New York Times that the idea was “unscientific, dangerous and ‘total nonsense.’” The Union of Concerned Scientists piped in, saying GBD was a “dangerous fringe theory.”
"Sweden followed this unscientific “dangerous fringe theory,” imposing no lockdowns, no school closures, no masks and no social distancing. It ended up with the fewest excess deaths of all major European countries — not to mention far, far fewer excess deaths than the U.S.
"Suggestion: When getting on your high horse to sneer at RFK’s staff, maybe choose an adjective other than “fringe.”
