Researchers Say HHS Memo to Congress Twisted Work to Back RFK Jr.'s Anti- Vaccine Agenda

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

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.

 

The HHS memo sent to lawmakers, which was first published by KFF Health News (NewsGuard Trust Score: 100/100) on June 13, 2025, includes a section about the scientific evidence that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr relied upon in his decision to remove the COVID vaccine from the recommended vaccine schedule during pregnancy.

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...NewsGuard found that the study in question did not identify a link between COVID vaccination and an increased risk of miscarriage, and the study’s lead author, Dr. Maria Velez, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University in Montreal, confirmed this finding to NewsGuard."

 

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NewsGuard

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/researchers-slam-hhs-memo-for-twisting

 

 

Meanwhile, the full linked NewsGuard article above goes on to explain that in the case of another study cited in the HHS memo to Congress, a co-author of that second study also said their published findings were misrepresented in HHS's memo.

 

The NewsGuard report notes that the HHS memo to Congress also failed to acknowledge "abundant" other evidence supporting the safety of COVID vaccines during pregnancy.

 

NewsGuard previously, and as repeated in the above report, noted that RFK Jr. and the anti-vax group Children's Health Defense that he founded, had made more than 100 provably false health-related claims in past years.

 

[mogandave]

On no

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Nor is the latest episode reported above the only time Trump's HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has been caught lately misreporting data and making up information in their communications, another recent instance being Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" report, as follows:

 

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.

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Other citations include the wrong author, and several studies cited by the extensive health report do not exist at all, a fact first reported by the online news outlet NOTUS on Thursday morning. [emphasis added]

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“The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again,” ... was led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a history of misstating science, and written in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump."

 

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Washington Post

https://archive.ph/TFUSl

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

And more of the same:

 

The findings — and scientific problems — in White House ‘MAHA Report’

 

Parts of the “MAHA Report” contradict scientific consensus.

 

May 22, 2025

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..."During the briefing, Kennedy claimed that “prescription drugs are now the number three cause of death in our country, after cardiac arrest and cancer.” However, the third-leading cause of death in the United States is accidents or unintentional injuries, which includes deaths due to drug overdoses, motor vehicle crashes and falls, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality data for 2023.

 

Gun violence, the leading cause of death for children and teens in 2020 and 2021 according to the CDC, is not mentioned in the report."

 

Washington Post

https://archive.ph/qPTVK

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Back to the OP issue in this thread, per National Public Radio on RFK Jr.'s report to Congress on COVID vaccines for pregnant women:

RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change

June 13, 2025

 

"A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to change U.S. policy on COVID vaccines cites scientific studies that are unpublished or under dispute and mischaracterizes others.

 

One health expert called the document "willful medical disinformation" about the safety of COVID vaccines for children and pregnant women.

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"It is so far out of left field that I find it insulting to our members of Congress that they would actually give them something like this"... said Dr. Mark Turrentine, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine."

 

National Public Radio

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5431935/rfk-hhs-covid-vaccine-schedule-faq

 

[Peabody]

Complete clown show, from Mar-a-Lardo on down. Liars, hypocrites, morally bereft clowns.