Is a Liberal Health Media Organization Ginning-Up Fears over the Trump-Kennedy NIH?
The author of the article has worked for Politco and AP. Meanwhile, a clinical research platform questions if biased report intended to create discord between Trump, RFK Jr., and Big Pharma?
KFF Health, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, recently published an expose asserting that two senior scientists have reported that National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in their grant applications.
According to this media entity, this directive has raised concerns that the Trump administration may be planning to abandon mRNA vaccine research, and furthermore, it decries that a supposedly promising field of medical science will be axed.
As an example, the KFF Health report indicated that an NIH project officer informed a scientist from a biomedical research center in Philadelphia that their pending grant had been “flagged” for having an mRNA vaccine component.
A scientist at a biomedical research center in Philadelphia wrote to a colleague, in an email reviewed by KFF Health News, that a project officer at NIH had “flagged our pending grant as having an mRNA vaccine component.”
“It’s still unclear whether mRNA vaccine grants will be canceled,” the scientist added.
NIH officials also told a senior NIH-funded vaccine scientist in New York state, who does not conduct mRNA vaccine research but described its efficacy in previous grant applications, that all references to mRNA vaccines should be scrubbed from future applications.
Scientists relayed their experiences on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retaliation by the Trump administration.
Interestingly, KFF author Arthur Allen published this information in the Minnesota Reformer. Allen continues this screed by pointing a finger at Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The article claims that a senior official at the National Cancer Institute confirmed that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent an email instructing that any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported to Kennedy’s office and the White House.”
All of this is being done anonymously because they are “scared” of the Trump administration.
A senior official at the National Cancer Institute confirmed that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent an email across the NIH instructing that any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported up the chain to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s office and the White House.
Memoli sent a similar message ahead of the agency canceling other research, such as studies of vaccine hesitancy.
Memoli’s email on that topic bluntly stated that NIH was not interested in learning why people shun vaccines or in exploring ways to “improve vaccine interest and commitment.”
The National Cancer Institute official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said that “it is reasonable to assume mRNA vaccine work is next.”
Now, I would like to share a little background on Allen, the author of the KFF Health article that is making the rounds on the internet. He has a long list of publications for which he has written, including many that have distorted reporting on Trump, Kennedy, and any other entity that challenges the preferred narrative. For example, Politico and AP.
And his views on the coronavirus vaccine are positively glowing.
Arthur Allen, senior correspondent, writes about the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry as well as topics related to covid-19. He joined KFF Health News in 2020 after six years at Politico, where he created, edited, and wrote for its first news team to focus on health information technology. Previously, he was a freelance writer for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and Slate.
He also worked for The Associated Press for 13 years, including stints as a correspondent based in El Salvador, Mexico, and Germany. He is the author of the books “Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver,” “Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato,” and “The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl.” He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley.
What are Allen’s science credentials? He has a Bachelor’s Degree in “Development Studies”. According the US Berkeley, ‘development studies‘ are “blending knowledge from political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, geography, history, and environmental science”.
I have posted several reports on the potential adverse health effects of the coronavirus vaccines. Many Americans, including Dr. Fauci, have become infected with COVID-19 even after multiple vaccinations.
I want the Trump administration to dig deep and question every grant request, especially on this subject.
I voted for this.
Let me offer an alternative explanation for the timing of this report. TrialSiteNews is an independent online platform dedicated to providing transparent and open coverage of clinical research trials globally. Founded in late 2018, the platform aims to drive awareness, introduce transparency, and facilitate engagement in the biomedical research field.
After attempting to corroborate the KFF Health piece, the site’s analysis questions the motivation and the timing.
Is this KFF News piece potentially designed to alarm industry and provoke a response from Trump? The President was the force behind Operation Warp Speed and is known to be proud of the mRNA vaccines and the lives saved. If so, it is likely to intensify tensions between the White House and HHS. Could that be the aim of this piece?
The data suggests that it would be wise to question everything about mRNA vaccine research, including the motivation and the timing of the KFF article.
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Look, I carry no water for RFK, Jr. I live close enough to hyannisport to know what a bunch of degenerates the the entire family is going back to Old Joe. And I am particularly cognizant of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. RFK, Jr operated in legal circles near to my subject matter expertise and he is 100% wrong but he’s running to the bank with millions in ill-gotten gains. In other words, I’d rather take medical advice from the bum sleeping on the subway bench.
That said, RFK, Jr’s credibility is solid freaking gold compared to the press. I seem to remember a guy named Sherman who had very strong opinions about reporters on the battlefield. I agree with him.
I don’t think RFK is going to be effective at evaluating the science, but he will make sure the scientists gets questioned. And that is valuable and overdue.
I am broadly but not blindly supportive of vaccines, and the mRNA vaccines are new and need much more study.
The COVID ones – like many respiratory ones – were not very good. Switzerland – not exactly MAGA country – stopped reimbursing it saying “If you want it, you pay for it. It’s not good”
I trust in RFK and industry being in opposites corners fighting and arguing it out publicly with data way more then I would ever trust either one alone
Like Elon, they loved him before they hated him.
We can thank the media for our division.
Yes.
Next question.
Exactly why I voted for PDJT and supported RFK Jr. !!!
Well, all we really have to do is look at the whole covid debacle to see why mRNA vaccines should be abandoned as a technology. The damn things don’t work, yet they still have side effects. All of the negatives of a real vaccine with none of the positives.
I have to believe the vaxxes’ (I don’t call them “vaccines”) failure was planned, likely to promote the uptake of booster shots ad infinitum.
The mRNA vaxxes caused the body’s own cells to produce the virus’s spike protein. They could not have thought they would work. Based on this fact alone, I knew they wouldn’t. If the body is only creating antibodies to a single antigen, all it takes is a few mutations in the antigen (the viral protein), and the vaxx will no longer work. Period. Enter boosters, tailored to the new variant(s). A never-ending chase.
When the body reacts to a natural virus, the immune system breaks it into parts, and develops multiple antigens to the proteins exhibited by the virus. Multiple mutations in any set of proteins isn’t likely to be enough to prevent the body from identifying at least some of them upon next exposure, and mounting an appropriate immune response. Successive waves of variants, over time accumulating a number of mutations in several proteins, are unable to bypass natural immunity, because people’s immune systems adapt to each new variant by developing entirely new sets antibodies against each variant of the virus (like updating a computer’s anti-virus app). This is why natural immunity is better than vaccine-induced (or vax-induced) immunity when the vaccine isn’t whole, killed virus. The single-point attack of the mRNA vaxxes was doomed to fail. This is not rocket science.
Reading the KFF Health website and reviewing the Medicaid map,
as a dentist who worked in NYC, I’m quite certain that all five boroughs should be a very dark, blue-black.
That they’re not represented as such, I see a major problem with KFF Health’s statistical analysis
Golly gee whiz, that’s just horrible that the Gov’t is flagging grant applications and contracts related to mRNA for further scrutiny before approval. /S
“NIH officials also told a senior NIH-funded vaccine scientist in New York state, who does not conduct mRNA vaccine research but described its efficacy in previous grant applications, that all references to mRNA vaccines should be scrubbed from future applications.”
This struck me as instructions on how to avoid having a grant application flagged in order to insure that it goes through. Investigating mRNA vaxxes? Don’t mention them in your grant application if you want to get the funding.
Short term gain at the potential of long term pain as result of failure to disclose. Any grant recipient and their institution who pulls that crap should be immediately black balled. No more grants or Fed funding to the individuals or the institution, across ALL departments. Any other entity hiring or having any affiliation with the grant recipient (s) and whoever was supposed to supervise them should likewise be black balled.
Didn’t say it’s a good idea, but you and I (and everyone else here) knows this sort of thing goes on.
I agree with you.Just laying out some penalties sufficient to mitigate such behavior.
Nobody has to ‘ gin up ‘ fears of a Trump Kennedy NIH. Orange Harvey has already demonstrated his ‘expertise’ ( LAFFRIOT) on the subject matter. ( hint-review his Covid statements ( LAFFRIOT)
Kennedy is a just a straight up kook with no expertise. He’s an environmental lawyer..
It’s beyond embarassing what is running the country now. More embarassing is how many people idolize this orange shitstain.
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