FROM JC

Yesterday, HHS Secretary Kennedy posted a rare defense of one of his picks for the newly reconstituted ACIP vaccine advisory board, Dr. Robert Malone. Regular readers will recall I previously mentioned he was a controversial choice, not least because he is one of the planet’s top experts on mRNA technology. Here’s how Kennedy’s pushback started, after finding out the New York Times was “investigating” Malone for “ethical conflicts:”

I’ll tell you where the Times has been for the last 20 years of ACIP ethical conflict. They’ve been in the back room, counting their pharma advertising money, that’s where.

Nobody cares what the Times thinks. It needs to sit down and shut up. Science!

If you’ve ever felt conflicted over Malone’s appointment to the vaccine committee, perhaps consider who his enemies are. A dark thread in the conservative influencer community has been savaging Malone for his early vaccine advocacy, which immediately changed after he personally was injured by the jabs. He told me the story himself at a speaker dinner in 2021.

Hilariously, Malone has been promptly posting about what’s happening since he was appointed to ACIP. The first thing he got after the news broke was an ‘offer’ to ‘consult’ for pharma for $450 an hour:

In other words, first they tried to create a conflict of interest. When that didn’t work, well, it was time for “Plan B.” Roll out the New York Times ‘investigators,’ who couldn’t find their bruised bottom if it were strapped into a dog collar and leashed.

It’s not just the Times. They’ve all let slip the dogs of cancel culture war. Yesterday, Malone reported the Atlantic is also writing a character assassination story, this one about his misinformation superspreading ways:

It’s the death rattle of a dying pharma empire. But of course, they are at their most dangerous when cornered. MAHA needs to decide whether to protect its assets or quibble about the details.