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Quite a whackjob conspiracy theorist she is... fitting right in at the Brownstone Institute: https://brownstone.org/author/debbie-lerman/

About Debbie Lerman & Her Substack "Except for dissident writers on Substack, and at places like the Brownstone Institute, where I have published all of my articles until now." [emphasis added] Who is Funding the Brownstone Institute? New tax filings provide some clarity about the funders of the prolific COVID-19 conspiracy outfit. [emphasis added] Last updated 10/1/24. A shadowy dark money group that has been waging information warfare on public health efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic took big money from nonprofit foundations and funds in 2021, tax records reveal. Since its establishment in May 2021, the Brownstone Institute has become a prolific and central hub of COVID-related misinformation and conspiracy thinking. Brownstone authors, who include prominent public health contrarians and conspiracy theorists, and COVID minimizers, downplay the seriousness of the virus while hyping up concerns about the supposed harms of mitigation measures. The group has also encouraged anti-vaccine sentiment, platforming prominent vaccine skeptics and misinformation spreaders like Dr. Robert Malone and Naomi Wolf." [emphasis added] https://www.importantcontext.news/p/who-is-funding-the-brownstone-institute

Not to mention an extensive litany of his own! As detailed above in my posts re Paul's dubious credibility on public health issues.

And for that record of exemplary public service, Fauci gets this: Reuters https://archive.ph/WsVo3

I think I defended him just fine by recounting his long and exemplary record of public service: "Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.[6] Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002.[7][8] In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

Are you operating under the mistaken belief that Anthony Fauci ever was the U.S. CDC director? Because he wasn't! "Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.[6] Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002.[7][8] In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

Ohh, Paul knows all about Big Pharma.... just not abiding by the rules for lawmakers who invest in it: "On February 26, 2020, Paul's wife purchased between $1,000 and $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company that produces an antiviral drug used to treat COVID-19, before the threat from the coronavirus was fully understood by the public; his disclosure of this transaction came 16 months after the legal deadline set forth in the Stock Act, a law that combats insider trading.[189] Paul's office stated that the disclosure form was filled up on time, but by mistake was not submitted.[190] This purchase was the only stock in an individual company that Paul or his wife bought in the previous 10 years." [emphasis added] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul

Apparently not! Ohh lord... Not this guy again. Let's see just where Rand Paul rates on the credibility scale when it comes to public health issues: Rand Paul Disease control "Paul has spread false claims about the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine and other vaccines, once saying, "I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines." On February 3, 2015, he posted a photograph to Twitter of himself being vaccinated." [emphasis added] ... At a Senate committee hearing on September 23, 2020, Paul clashed with Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.[363][364] Paul asked Fauci if he had "second thoughts" about the CDC's mitigation recommendations, including mask-wearing and maintaining a six-foot space of social distancing.[365] Paul said New York's high fatality rate showed that mitigation efforts were insufficient.[366] Fauci replied, "You've misconstrued that Senator, and you've done that repetitively in the past", saying that New York had succeeded in getting the virus under control by adhering to the CDC's clinical guidelines." [emphasis added] ... At Senate hearings in May and July 2021, Paul debated Anthony Fauci on the origin of COVID-19, gaining media attention for his concerns about the risks of lab work. In July 2021, Fauci responded to Paul's allegations and called him a liar. In August 2021, Paul was suspended from YouTube for a week under the company's misinformation policy after he published a video with false claims that masks are not effective. Paul also released a video of himself calling on people to "resist" public health measures to halt the spread of COVID-19." [emphasis added] etc etc etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul 'Absolutely irresponsible': Rand Paul's colleagues are calling him out after he reportedly went to the gym after testing for coronavirus Mar 23, 2020 Sen. Rand Paul's colleagues in the Senate are calling him out after he reportedly refused to practice social distancing after testing for the coronavirus. Paul, who later tested positive, used the Senate pool and gym after being tested, according to Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim. "No one is too important to disregard guidance to self-quarantine pending test results," Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican, said. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, said Paul's actions were "absolutely irresponsible." https://www.businessinsider.com/senators-criticize-rand-paul-reportedly-going-gym-after-coronavirus-test-2020-3 Paul Repeats Baseless Vaccine Claims February 3, 2015 "Sen. Rand Paul gave false and misleading statements about vaccine safety in two separate interviews, including a claim that “many” children have developed “profound mental disorders” after vaccinations. [emphasis added] There is no evidence that any currently recommended vaccine causes brain damage or other mental disorders in otherwise healthy children. Severe reactions do occur but are extremely rare." https://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/paul-repeats-baseless-vaccine-claims/

Prison-provider butler / servant?

Strange that the OP article doesn't seem to say just WHO lifted the afternoon alcohol ban on restaurants? Was it a PM Anutin decree? A decision by some version of the Cabinet? The Alcohol Control Board??? If it was a law, did the Thai Parliament actually ever meet and do anything? Inquiring minds want to know!

Here's the Chat GPT translation of the Thai language sign that Tod posted in the OP... I caught the same sign on the BKK CW Kasikorn branch door when I was out at BKK CW last week: Kasikornbank Notification of Branch Merger: The branch at Chalermprakiat Government Complex (Building B) will merge with the IT Square Branch Effective from September 12, 2025 onwards. Map: IT Square Branch Branch Service Hours: Open daily from 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (excluding bank holidays). Customer Services: Customers can deposit and withdraw cash at nearby ATMs located at: Government Complex, Koh Chut Subdistrict, 7-Eleven, IT Square, Chaeng Watthana Soi 10. Or use Kasikornbank Services at: 7-Eleven FamilyMart Lotus’s For deposits and withdrawals (service fees may apply). Contact Information: For more details, call: 085-4861811-13 or K-Contact Center: 02-8888888 -------------------------------------------------------- PS - I'm not clear on where/what this reference on their posted notice is talking about: "Customers can deposit and withdraw cash at nearby ATMs located at: Government Complex, Koh Chut Subdistrict,"

I really don't care what Marty Makary has to say because he, despite his new position heading the FDA, is an RFK Jr. fellow traveler with a long history of right-wing contrarian and sometimes dubious/debunked views... He's also not high on the credibility scale, though probably a bit better than RFK Jr. To wit: Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s FDA Pick Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary has spent years promoting fringe pandemic views and attacking the U.S. government. Nov 20, 2024 "Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is a prominent medical contrarian who has cast doubt on the COVID-19 vaccines. ... The résumé on Makary’s website shows no experience in government or managing bureaucracy, and the surgeon has spent years working to undermine confidence in the very agency he is reportedly a top contender to lead. ... With the pandemic, he has emerged as a popular figure on the political right for his particular brand of contrarianism, which has included falsely asserting in a February 2021 op-ed that the U.S. would achieve COVID herd immunity by April of that year. Even before COVID, Makary was controversial. In 2016, he was behind a widely rebuked study in the British Medical Journal purporting to find that medical error was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Shortly after publication, the editors-in chief of BMJ Quality and Safety debunked the findings. ... Makary’s pandemic advocacy has alienated him from the mainstream of public health, but it has been a boon to him in other ways. For example, he has made influential allies like [now NIH chief] Bhattacharya and become a favorite of right-wing media. In 2021, he was included on a list of “The dishonest doctors who were Fox News’ most frequent medical guests in 2021” by watchdog group Media Matters" ... Stoking Vaccine Fears Makary’s focus on vaccination as a harmful act of the federal government and public health authorities during the HSSCP hearing was unsurprising. He had long been promoting fear toward the mRNA COVID shots, which have saved millions of lives to date, overhyping concerns about rare, often self-resolving side effects while advocating for infection-acquired immunity as stronger and preferable." https://www.importantcontext.news/cp/151980188 Sadly, in recent months, it's become very clear that Kennedy and his various henchmen now heading the health agencies under HHS (CDC, NIH, FDA and others] have no qualms about producing flawed, faked and misleading reports. So whatever "investigation" Makary and Co. end up producing on the supposed subject of "child deaths" is going to be regarded as suspect and likely "doctored" from the get-go. Here are some recent examples of why what's being produced by HHS under RFK Jr. often has little credibility, just as RFK Jr. himself has almost zero credibility: RFK Jr. Cites Three False COVID Vaccine Claims to Justify Canceling mRNA Vaccine Funding https://aseannow.com/topic/1369297-rfk-jr-cites-3-false-claims-to-justify-canceling-vaccine-funding/ AND Researchers Say HHS Memo to Congress Twisted Work to Back RFK Jr.'s Anti- Vaccine Agenda June 19, 2025 "A memo sent to Congress by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services misrepresented medical studies to justify the agency’s decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccines to pregnant women, the studies’ authors have told NewsGuard. [emphasis added] https://aseannow.com/topic/1364205-researchers-say-hhs-memo-to-congress-twisted-work-to-back-rfk-jrs-anti-vaccine-agenda/ AND White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy "Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday. [emphasis added] Washington Post https://archive.ph/TFUSl It's a truly deplorable state of affairs when the above kind of dreck is what's being promulgated by formerly credible U.S. health agencies now being run by RFK Jr. and his henchmen. The safe bet these days, sadly, is if it comes out of HHS under Kennedy and his henchmen, it's likely not to be believed.

You mean he won't be on the infamous two servings of watery rice per day meal plan???

I don't think so... I think even in Thailand, "Supreme Court" is as high as it gets in the court system. That said, I think the Corrections Dept. has some latitude in how long he might actually serve, and where he serves it, assuming he does. Of course, one can never rule out that as soon as he's actually jail, assuming he ever is, that some "new" medical issue might arise that would lead to him once again being hospitalized somewhere.... instead of serving time in a regular custody setting. But any ploy like that a second time round is likely to get immediate and intense scrutiny. Anyone taking bets?

And as for the source report above: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-tribune/

RFK Jr is an anti-vaxer supreme who constantly is peddling false information. I wouldn't believe him if he was telling me what day of the week it is. Every time he speaks publicly, the major US news services have to write long articles detailing all his misstatements and falsehoods. He's a walking LIE on health issues. So re his claim in the above report, Dr Daskalakis was quoted in the news last week as saying he never met Kennedy even once during his entire time at CDC, and Kennedy's office never took him up on repeated requests to brief RFK on important health issues. https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/rfk-jr-was-never-briefed-by-experts-on-vaccine-preventable-diseases-cdc-official-who-resigned-246128709795 Re RFK Jr's total lack of credibility: 7 Noteworthy Falsehoods Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Promoted Mr. Kennedy, the proposed nominee for health secretary, has for decades promoted baseless conspiracy theories https://www.nytimes.com/article/rfk-conspiracy-theories-fact-check.html RFK Jr. Justifies Cuts to mRNA Vaccine Projects With Falsehoods https://www.factcheck.org/2025/08/rfk-jr-justifies-cuts-to-mrna-vaccine-projects-with-falsehoods/ Fact-checkers: RFK Jr has long spread vaccine lies https://www.futurity.org/robert-f-kennedy-jr-misinformation-vaccines-2966952-2/ I could go on ad infinitum re his total lack of credibility, but you get the idea from the above...

Top 12 questions on routine vaccines "Many people have questions about routine vaccinations: the need, safety, and rumors. YLE [Your Local Epidemiologist], in partnership with Yale School of Public Health, compiled an FAQ document of evidence-based information for you. ... Do doctors get paid an incentive for vaccinations? "Physicians do not get paid by pharmaceutical companies for vaccinations. Vaccination is often billed to insurance companies. But these administration fees are rarely worth it. Surveys of pediatricians report that most break even or even lose money from vaccination—because the costs of vaccine storage, handling, and the doses themselves are so high. Some insurers have regional programs offering small financial incentives to pediatric practices for maintaining a certain level of vaccine uptake in their practices, but these programs are not universal, and the incentives are indeed small. The cost of vaccinating kids has gotten so high that some pediatric practices have stopped offering recommended vaccines." https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/api/v1/file/d67ee859-0f92-4d09-b691-da4a59f632c9.pdf Your Local Epidemiologist: "I’m Dr. Katelyn Jetelina—a public health enthusiast with a passion for making science accessible. I have a Master’s in Public Health and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. By day, I’m an epidemiologist, data scientist, scientific consultant to organizations."

No, Blue Cross Blue Shield physicians aren't paid a bonus to meet a vaccine quota January 19, 2022 "Misleading claims that Blue Cross Blue Shield is paying doctors to meet child vaccination quotas have been spreading across social media. ... Blue Cross Blue Shield is an association of 35 independent U.S. health insurance companies. The association does not provide bonuses for vaccinating a set number of child patients. [emphasis added] "Every (Blue Cross Blue Shield) company sets its own value-based contracts with local providers," said a Blue Cross Blue Shield spokesperson. "The purpose of any performance-based incentives, where they exist, is to reward implementation of well-established evidence-based best practices in the care of our members. While vaccinations may fall into that category, they would not be the sole performance measure. Any incentives cover a broad collection of best practices." [emphasis added] (more) https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/19/instagram-posts/no-blue-cross-blue-shield-physicians-arent-paid-bo/

Another credible source showing the OP claims -- which originated with master anti-vax misinfo peddler RFK Jr. -- are false nonsense: Kennedy Claims Doctors Profit Off Vaccines. In Fact, Many Lose Money on Them. Experts said the health secretary’s remarks send a dangerous message: Don’t trust your physician. July 15, 2025 ... "a few weeks ago, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, claimed in an interview with Tucker Carlson that vaccine profits created “perverse incentives” for pediatricians to push immunizations, Dr. Bartell was confused. Doctors widely consider vaccines to be a money pit. Research shows that most pediatricians either break even or lose money on shots. One 2017 study found that nearly a quarter of family medicine providers and 12 percent of pediatricians stopped purchasing vaccines because of prohibitive costs. [emphasis added] To many experts, suggesting otherwise not only ignored that data, but also sent a dangerous message: that patients should doubt their doctor’s motives in recommending vaccines. “This idea that we vaccinate kids to make money honestly is misleading and dangerous,” said Dr. David Higgins, a pediatrician and preventive medicine expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. (more) New York Times https://archive.ph/qwAoW

Credible info says the OP post is, predictably, nonsense! Do pediatricians recommend vaccines to make a profit? There’s not much money there. August 20, 2025 "Pediatric practices might make money providing vaccines to privately insured children, but many also participate in a program that vaccinates children for free. Overall, most practices likely break even or lose money. [emphasis added] ... Dr. Christoph Diasio, a pediatrician at Sandhills Pediatrics in North Carolina, said the argument that doctors profit off of vaccines is counterintuitive. "If it was really about all the money, it would be better for kids to be sick so you’d see more sick children and get to take care of more sick children, right?" he said. ... Diasio said the driving force behind pediatric vaccine recommendations is straightforward: Trained physicians have seen kids die of vaccine-preventable diseases." https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/aug/20/do-pediatricians-recommend-vaccines-to-make-a-prof/

More nonsense from a nonsense, vastly non-credible group -- the main anti-vax misinfo peddler group in the U.S. "Overall, we rate the Children’s Health Defense a strong conspiracy and quackery level advocacy group that frequently promotes unsupported claims. We also rate them low for factual reporting due to the promotion of propaganda and several failed fact checks." https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/childrens-health-defense/

Quack alert time!!! Re the source for the OP post: And re their so-called "journal": "AAPS has also published a medical journal since 1996, called the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS). This journal is not listed in academic literature databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed due to the publication of information that lacks scientific validity. Further, the U.S. National Library of Medicine declined repeated requests from AAPS to index the journal. Finally, JPandS was listed on Beall’s list of potential or probable predatory open-access journals, with Chemical and Engineering News describing the journal as a “purveyor of utter nonsense.” [emphasis added] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/association-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-aaps/

Polio Eradication is Impossible When the Vaccine is the #1 Cause No, it's not: Causes "Polio is caused by the poliovirus. It mainly targets nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain stem that control muscle movement. Nerve cells controlling sensation are generally not affected. The naturally-occurring poliovirus, called the wild-type poliovirus, has been eliminated in most countries and causes few cases of polio. Another version of the virus, called the vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), is more widespread and now causes most infections worldwide. VDPV exists mainly in a few countries that use an oral vaccine with a weakened poliovirus. The weakened virus in the oral vaccine doesn't itself cause polio, and vaccinated people rarely contract VDPV. Instead, VDPV is a new version of the virus that develops within a community or region where not enough people are vaccinated." [emphasis added] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/polio/symptoms-causes/syc-20376512

Hang on! If RFK Jr. and some anti-vax, science denying posters here get their way, there could -- sadly -- become a renewed demand for those kinds of contraptions..... or at least, the modern versions of them. But don't worry! Sayer Ji will be there to save us all!

"Poliomyelitis (/ˌpoʊlioʊˌmaɪəˈlaɪtɪs/ POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. [emphasis added] ... There are two broad types of polio vaccine; an injected polio vaccine (IPV) using inactivated poliovirus and an oral polio vaccine (OPV) containing attenuated (weakened) live virus.[1] Through the use of both types of vaccine, incidence of wild polio has decreased from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988[3] to 30 confirmed cases in 2022, confined to just three countries. In rare cases, the traditional OPV was able to revert to a virulent form. An improved oral vaccine with greater genetic stability (nOPV2) was developed and granted full licensure and prequalification by the World Health Organization in December 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio