In today’s live recording, I start off trying to be less feisty than I was earlier — TikTok slapped me with a restriction for too much cursing and too many news articles — but there was no shortage of topics to set me off again. I walk through the chaos unfolding at the CDC, where the RFK Jr.–installed vaccine advisory board is gearing up to vote on delaying the hepatitis B birth dose. I talk about why that decision isn’t just dumb, but dangerous, and how basic medical reality seems to have been replaced with cult-level thinking.
From there, I dig into a wild piece of reporting about an FDA official claiming that COVID vaccines killed at least ten kids — with zero evidence — and how this kind of baseless fear-mongering is infecting federal health policy. I even poke around the VAERS database live, which turns into its own little comedy of government-website errors.
I close out with some political absurdity, including Senator Roger Marshall dodging basic questions on MSNBC and the media’s ongoing habit of letting people off the hook for nonsense just to keep the booking pipeline open.
It’s a wide-ranging live, but all connected by one theme: we’re watching institutions break in real time — and trying to make sense of it together.
