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A discredited anti-vaccine advocate who has no medical background and who has been disciplined for practicing medicine without a license will reportedly lead a questionable federal study on vaccines and autism—despite a large volume of existing research that has found no link between the two and despite a thorough debunking of claims that vaccines cause autism. Late Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that David Geier has been hired as a "data analyst" by the Department of Health and Human Services, which is now headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent and fervent anti-vaccine advocate. Kennedy and Geier have both long touted the false claim that vaccines cause autism, despite the extensive evidence showing that they do not. https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/rfk-jr-hires-anti-vaccine-advocate-to-study-debunked-vaccine-autism-link/

I almost don't believe you but the complete lack of evidence that you offer is entirely convincing.

From the article: "During President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, VOA allowed and often encouraged key correspondents to carry out opposition journalism against him." It's a good thing Donald Trump isn't thin-skinned otherwise what others might interpret as reporting the news Trump might characterize as opposition journalism. "This included an uprising, growing out of VOA’s central newsroom, against Mr. Trump’s choice of chief USAGM executive in 2020." An uprising that ended with the court backing the staff against the efforts of Michal Pack, Trump's appointee to head VOA "The chief executive over the Voice of America and its sister networks has acted unconstitutionally in investigating what he claimed was a deep-seated bias against President Trump by his own journalists, a federal judge has ruled. Citing the journalists' First Amendment protections, U.S. Judge Beryl Howell on Friday evening ordered U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack to stop interfering in the news service's news coverage and editorial personnel matters. She struck a deep blow at Pack's authority to continue to force the news agency to cover the president more sympathetically." https://www.npr.org/2020/11/21/937467457/ceo-over-voa-acted-unconstitutionally-in-pursuing-bias-claims-u-s-judge-rules Funny how that journalist didn't mention this. And what about this: Trump appointee pushes out VOA director before Biden takes office Rep. Mike McCaul of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he was "disturbed” at the situation at the U.S. Agency for Global Media under Pack. “He still owes Congress answers, including on his latest personnel decision. The work of brave VOA journalists should be respected, not undermined,” McCaul said in an email to NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-appointee-pushes-out-voa-director-biden-takes-office-n1250539

This is your idea of evidence? Because Trump said so? Clearly you have never listened to the VOA and never have read the VOA. The actual hard evidence is clear. Clearly, you can find nothing on the website to support your claim.

Which fake narrarive would that be and why is it fake?

Setting up a straw man much? Do you plan to invent more fake arguments to shoot down?

Stop making things up. Here's a screenshot of the headlines from their website: https://www.voanews.com/ What is there in these articles that looks like radical leftist propaganda? Please, follow the link and share with us the radical leftist propaganda that you have found.

Which is why the Chinese are rejoicing? Because they hate leftist radical propaganda? In fact, the voice of America reports on all sides of the issues. What it does not do is function as a propaganda arm of the United States government.

More nothingness from you

The best proof that the VOA is effective is that the Chinese government is rejoicing in its prospective demise.

I'm still getting a chuckle out of his piece of nonsense of yours. You don't seem to understand how irrelevant your comment is. "Subject' has two meanings. One is it technical meaning signifying a substantive's grammatical function in a sentence or sentence fragment. Another meaning of "subject"is what some verbal expression or expressions are about. The gist. Somehow, you've managed to confuse one for the other. Let me make it clear to you another way. If your definition of subject was actually relevant then the topic would be simply "CNN". After all, CNN is, grammatically speaking, the subject of your heading. Therefore anything that pertains to CNN, would be relevant. Anything. Such as, who's your favorite anchor or the design of the sets. You really want to run with that? It is to laugh.

Once again. VOA showed it was possible even for a government funded agency to criticize the government. That's a pretty good advertisement for the first Amendment and the government. But as we've seen lately, the current government views the first amendment as unamerican

What don't you understand about the fact that Trump hated the VOA precisely because it wasn't one dimensional propagand

Thanks for the reflexive comment. Actually, I guess it's possible for you to be further from the truth, but you'd have to work at it. Trump’s surprising target in war on media: Voice of America "Trump and his allies have long viewed VOA with suspicion, regarding it as an element of a “deep state” trying to thwart their policies. But that hostility burst open on April 9 when Trump communications adviser Dan Scavino posted a VOA story about China to his official Twitter account with the comment “American taxpayers—paying for China’s very own propaganda, via the U.S. Government funded Voice of America! DISGRACE!!”... VOA director Amanda Bennett fired back. “One of the big differences between publicly funded independent media, like the Voice of America, and state-controlled media is that we are free to show all sides of an issue and are actually mandated to do so by law as stated in the VOA Charter,” she said in an April 10 statement." https://apnews.com/article/aa9f647b07c6fc2c0a471000c03d03fa In fact, what Trump and others didn't like about the VOA was that it offered reports that weren't propaganda. Propaganda was what Trump wanted. And it was a great advertisement for the USA that a government funded media source could publish reports that contained criticisms of the government and news that contradicted its claims.

Generations of Chinese, including our columnist, turned to U.S. government-run outlets for an education in democracy, rights and the English language. In December 1967, when he arrived at a snowy farm on China’s northeastern border with the Soviet Union, Xu Chenggang carried with him an electron tube to help him assemble a radio. Mr. Xu, a 17-year-old Beijing native, would spend the next 10 years there, living in a horse stable and subjected to re-education and persecution for his anti-revolutionary thinking. One thing that got him through the cold, dark decade was the tube radio that brought him Voice of America programs. https://archive.ph/bBLbD#selection-757.0-765.10

I think it's becoming clear that however you think China operates you're unwilling to share the basis of your claim because you know it doesn't comport with reality. You can prove me wrong by actually being specific for a change.

What is it with right-wingers and videos? 41 minutes of Victor David Hanson? Hasn't Hanson written voluminously on just about everything? I know that he's never recanted his support of the Iraq War.

Here's a graph from Real Clear Politics. It's actually quite naive since it gives equal weight to all pollsters regardless of the size of the sample, their track records, recency of the poll and other factors. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating Here's a graph from natesilver.net which does take into account those factors https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin

President Trump convened CEOs of some of the country’s top automakers for a call earlier this month, he issued a warning: They better not raise car prices because of tariffs. Trump told the executives that the White House would look unfavorably on such a move, leaving some of them rattled and worried they would face punishment if they increased prices, people with knowledge of the call said. https://archive.ph/GwxsT Nationalist Socialist President?

Do you think that would be a bad thing?

WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance for exemptions from requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene. The Environmental Protection Agency has set up an electronic mailbox to allow regulated companies to request a presidential exemption under the Clean Air Act to a host of Biden-era rules. Companies were asked to send an email by Monday seeking permission from President Donald Trump to bypass the new restrictions. https://apnews.com/article/trump-epa-clean-air-exemption-mercury-13f009f79fdc84443e428618d2a01bba

You clearly have forgotten that John Durham with the strong support of William Barr during his term tried for years to find evidence to back up such claims. He found nothing.

Really? They can't do anything? They seem to have suffered a lot of reverses lately

It's definitely a nanny state. If the nanny was cold, forbidding, and joyless.

CNN posted a poll. You think they conduct these polls to keep them a secret? But you're the party who reckoned that the poll signified some change at CNN. And you did this on the basis of one poll. Polls can bounce around a lot. To use one poll to draw such a big inference is ridiculous.