"Murphy’s order “stays” several key actions taken by Kennedy’s department—meaning that they are not fully prohibited, but rather they are put on hold as the legal proceedings fully play out. " Completely the opposite of how SCOTUS, in pointless deference to Trump, refused to stay all his abusive actions. Good for Murphy!
"What is clear is that people around the president have gotten nervous that the anti-vaccine agenda is alienating the majority of voters who support vaccination strongly."
Heaven forbid, of course, that they might also be nervous about kids getting sick/disabled/killed by preventable infections. Presumably the same kids they insist be born but care not a whit about getting measles or whooping cough or polio.
If the US wants to adopt the vaccine schedule that Denmark uses, then give us the universal Healthcare that country enjoys. Kennedy has done more long term damage to this country than any other Secretary.
Pam. I have been in the medical field 40 52 years. The first 10 were in Emergency Room and intensive care medicine. The last 42 have been in Functional Medicine under Dr. Jeffery Bland PhD the father of Functional Medicine.
Apart from the great news about these roadblocks to the anti-science agenda, this brought to mind the huge number of desperate, impoverished, often illiterate Irish immigrants who came to America for decades, largely starting in the 1840s. Lots of them built the railroad system (including some of my forebears); they were cops and soldiers and washerwomen and domestics, and often mocked and reviled by “real” Americans.
And here we are on St Patrick’s Day 2026, reading about a Judge Murphy and Dr Malone fighting it out with a (temporary) CDC Dir. O’Neil, and most infamously, HHS Sec. Kennedy—whose confirmation squeaked through courtesy of Sen./Dr.Cassidy.
Oh, yes. My goodness, how can we forget the irony of these descendents of Irish immigrants, now fighting each other in such a mess today, St. Paddy's Day? A day millions of us descendants who normally love to celebrate. Green rivers in Chicago. As descendants of immigrants from the Emerald Isle. The irony of it.
Yes. And so many of our fellow Irish-Americans so hostile to subsequent waves of immigrants! A very ugly aspect of human nature through history…and one which will always need to be fought by our better selves.
The greatest betrayal is of those too young to be vaxed or esp vulnerable for other reasons, who depend on the rest of us to get our shots. The Atlantic has published various articles on this. We cannot allow ignorance and folly to take us back to the days when diseases like polio caused suffering and death.
How hard will the administration fight this ruling, when they seem to be realizing they may not have the anti-vaccine political winds at their back, moving into the midterms? Once upon a time, in the Covid era, it was MAGA cool to rail against vaccines, as an affront to personal liberty. I'm sure this judge's decision will be appealed all the way to the supreme court. Count on it, whatever the political winds. But it's nice that for now, anti vaccine-ism has been challenged.
I’m always amazed that nobody has asked Bobby Jr. whether he’s had his kids vaccinated, and if so, for what. If the Democrats regain control of the Senate this fall, they need to haul in Brainworms Guy and ask him that very question. He’s happy to let kids suffer through measles (because it was on “The Brady Bunch”, y’know), but he has money to take his own children to the ER, and most families don't.
How much you want to bet his kids and grandkids are fully vaccinated ? It’s more of being seen as a rebel against the establishment than it is science — seems to me anyway ….
Jeff Childers says it best, "Murphy’s test for “vaccine expertise” —a test he never explicitly defined— could be boiled down to one question: Did they spend their entire career inside the vaccine establishment? If not: unqualified. That’s the same kind of credentialist gatekeeping shoved vaccine injury research to the margins for decades. The old ACIP —the one packed with Murphy-approved vaccine orthodoxy— was the same committee that, as yesterday’s post explained, buried all the post-vaccine injury data under a noisy chicken coop of buzzwords and bureaucratic confusion." This being said, vaccine orthodoxy is not what we need. We need outsiders who question Standards of Care and are willing to contend with the Pharma old guard. We have suffered long enough with Tobacco science and the Rockefeller paradigm of petrochemical pharmaceutical interventions that cause more harm than good. We are not healthier because of the medical industries disease management system. We are exponentially morbidly unwell. Over 250,000 people a year die from properly prescribed prescription drugs. It is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Yet somehow we are told that we should keep the status quo and that Kennedy is the dangerous one?
I know your credentials, you are a nutritional chiropractor and therefor not especially well-versed in medical issues I believe. How do we know you’re not a crackpot like RFK Junior?What standards do you use for your nutritional chiropractic practice. That sounds a little strange. I would love to know! I’m saying all this so people who are reading what you write are skeptical as they should be and as you urge people to be on the other side.
The BMJ article discusses medical errors, not specifically “properly prescribed prescription drugs” as you stated. Not sure why you drew that conclusion.
I’d love to know where you got this data that death from prescription drugs is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US?? Actually the 3rd leading cause of death is accidental injury according to the CDC (2023).
Searching for this study on google, bmj 2016, a study with this title showed up and it says that the third cause of death is medical errors and not what you claim. So please link to the study you refer to so we can verify your claim.
Ah, so you claim conspiracy when your theory has no evidence. Got it. BTW, do you have a professional group of medical experts at every hospital, ER, clinic, etc. collecting the evidence you have for your claim? Or is a 10 year old article in the BMJ (which you do not provide a link to) the basis for your opinion. Where did the study get its statistics, was it world wide, was just in Britain, did it include all medical procedures, did it include possible genetic predispositions, lifestyle, age, etc., etc.? Oh, and I’m neither a scientist nor a medical professional but, I do know thorough study and comprehensive evidence is necessary for scientific assertions.
"Murphy’s order “stays” several key actions taken by Kennedy’s department—meaning that they are not fully prohibited, but rather they are put on hold as the legal proceedings fully play out. " Completely the opposite of how SCOTUS, in pointless deference to Trump, refused to stay all his abusive actions. Good for Murphy!
"What is clear is that people around the president have gotten nervous that the anti-vaccine agenda is alienating the majority of voters who support vaccination strongly."
Heaven forbid, of course, that they might also be nervous about kids getting sick/disabled/killed by preventable infections. Presumably the same kids they insist be born but care not a whit about getting measles or whooping cough or polio.
If the US wants to adopt the vaccine schedule that Denmark uses, then give us the universal Healthcare that country enjoys. Kennedy has done more long term damage to this country than any other Secretary.
Pam. I have been in the medical field 40 52 years. The first 10 were in Emergency Room and intensive care medicine. The last 42 have been in Functional Medicine under Dr. Jeffery Bland PhD the father of Functional Medicine.
Apart from the great news about these roadblocks to the anti-science agenda, this brought to mind the huge number of desperate, impoverished, often illiterate Irish immigrants who came to America for decades, largely starting in the 1840s. Lots of them built the railroad system (including some of my forebears); they were cops and soldiers and washerwomen and domestics, and often mocked and reviled by “real” Americans.
And here we are on St Patrick’s Day 2026, reading about a Judge Murphy and Dr Malone fighting it out with a (temporary) CDC Dir. O’Neil, and most infamously, HHS Sec. Kennedy—whose confirmation squeaked through courtesy of Sen./Dr.Cassidy.
Oh, yes. My goodness, how can we forget the irony of these descendents of Irish immigrants, now fighting each other in such a mess today, St. Paddy's Day? A day millions of us descendants who normally love to celebrate. Green rivers in Chicago. As descendants of immigrants from the Emerald Isle. The irony of it.
Yes. And so many of our fellow Irish-Americans so hostile to subsequent waves of immigrants! A very ugly aspect of human nature through history…and one which will always need to be fought by our better selves.
What a mess rfk
God bless our valiant judiciary...the lower courts that is.
Well, all of the courts, really, except the majority of the Supremes.
The greatest betrayal is of those too young to be vaxed or esp vulnerable for other reasons, who depend on the rest of us to get our shots. The Atlantic has published various articles on this. We cannot allow ignorance and folly to take us back to the days when diseases like polio caused suffering and death.
How hard will the administration fight this ruling, when they seem to be realizing they may not have the anti-vaccine political winds at their back, moving into the midterms? Once upon a time, in the Covid era, it was MAGA cool to rail against vaccines, as an affront to personal liberty. I'm sure this judge's decision will be appealed all the way to the supreme court. Count on it, whatever the political winds. But it's nice that for now, anti vaccine-ism has been challenged.
such the dupe
I’m always amazed that nobody has asked Bobby Jr. whether he’s had his kids vaccinated, and if so, for what. If the Democrats regain control of the Senate this fall, they need to haul in Brainworms Guy and ask him that very question. He’s happy to let kids suffer through measles (because it was on “The Brady Bunch”, y’know), but he has money to take his own children to the ER, and most families don't.
Touché on the Oscar reference!🎬
How much you want to bet his kids and grandkids are fully vaccinated ? It’s more of being seen as a rebel against the establishment than it is science — seems to me anyway ….
Jeff Childers says it best, "Murphy’s test for “vaccine expertise” —a test he never explicitly defined— could be boiled down to one question: Did they spend their entire career inside the vaccine establishment? If not: unqualified. That’s the same kind of credentialist gatekeeping shoved vaccine injury research to the margins for decades. The old ACIP —the one packed with Murphy-approved vaccine orthodoxy— was the same committee that, as yesterday’s post explained, buried all the post-vaccine injury data under a noisy chicken coop of buzzwords and bureaucratic confusion." This being said, vaccine orthodoxy is not what we need. We need outsiders who question Standards of Care and are willing to contend with the Pharma old guard. We have suffered long enough with Tobacco science and the Rockefeller paradigm of petrochemical pharmaceutical interventions that cause more harm than good. We are not healthier because of the medical industries disease management system. We are exponentially morbidly unwell. Over 250,000 people a year die from properly prescribed prescription drugs. It is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Yet somehow we are told that we should keep the status quo and that Kennedy is the dangerous one?
I know your credentials, you are a nutritional chiropractor and therefor not especially well-versed in medical issues I believe. How do we know you’re not a crackpot like RFK Junior?What standards do you use for your nutritional chiropractic practice. That sounds a little strange. I would love to know! I’m saying all this so people who are reading what you write are skeptical as they should be and as you urge people to be on the other side.
The BMJ article discusses medical errors, not specifically “properly prescribed prescription drugs” as you stated. Not sure why you drew that conclusion.
If you take a look at this person’s Substack, you’ll see that she (& he?) is a full-bore anti-vaccine activist.
https://substack.com/@docpmp
Coffee & Covid is an extreme antivax site.
I’d love to know where you got this data that death from prescription drugs is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US?? Actually the 3rd leading cause of death is accidental injury according to the CDC (2023).
See study in BMJ in 2016. Of course the CDC is not going to list medical interventions as a major cause of mortality.
Searching for this study on google, bmj 2016, a study with this title showed up and it says that the third cause of death is medical errors and not what you claim. So please link to the study you refer to so we can verify your claim.
Ah, so you claim conspiracy when your theory has no evidence. Got it. BTW, do you have a professional group of medical experts at every hospital, ER, clinic, etc. collecting the evidence you have for your claim? Or is a 10 year old article in the BMJ (which you do not provide a link to) the basis for your opinion. Where did the study get its statistics, was it world wide, was just in Britain, did it include all medical procedures, did it include possible genetic predispositions, lifestyle, age, etc., etc.? Oh, and I’m neither a scientist nor a medical professional but, I do know thorough study and comprehensive evidence is necessary for scientific assertions.
Thank you.
Post-vaccine injury data is anecdotal: none of it has been verified. Peer-reviewed vaccine studies ARE verified.
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Now do the rest of the freak show.
This ruling is very well written and carefully lays out multiple procedural and other problems. Well worth reading.