By Visitor Contributor Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
On Could 14, 2025, U.S. Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified earlier than two congressional committees. I watched each conferences in full, roughly 5 hours of interrogation.
The primary assembly, starting at 9:30 am EST, was with the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Well being and Human Companies, Training, and Associated Businesses, a committee composed of members from the Home of Representatives. On this session, Sec. Kennedy was questioned, usually in a scolding and disrespectful tone, in regards to the influence of cuts on applications for low-income help and the consolidation of assorted well being places of work. Lawmakers lashed out over the potential destructive results on weak populations and public well being infrastructure.
The Secretary strongly defended the substantial price range cuts. As he tried to elucidate that departmental restructuring was essential to get rid of redundancy by combining related departments and reevaluating applications for effectiveness and ROI, he was continuously interrupted, particularly by the hostile Democratic members of the committee, who had been clearly utilizing this platform for his or her message slightly than for honest inquiry.
Consequently, the Secretary was barely capable of current just a few information to help the rationale behind these cuts and the way they might streamline the Company and profit the American individuals in the long term.
After which, beginning at 1:30 pm EST, the Senate Committee on Well being, Training, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) was convened. The HELP Committee oversees a broad vary of federal applications and laws that considerably influence American life. Its jurisdiction consists of:
- Well being care and public well being, with oversight of HHS and its subagencies, together with the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HRSA.
- Training coverage, from early childhood by larger training, together with supervision of the Division of Training.
- Division of Labor points akin to wages, office security, and union rights.
- Retirement and pension insurance policies and safety legal guidelines.
The HELP Committee’s focus was extra strategic and ideological, analyzing the price range numbers in a broader context of the consequences of the deliberate HHS restructuring. Senators questioned the plans to get rid of or downgrade places of work that target minority well being, LGBTQ+ well being, girls’s well being, and environmental well being. The listening to additionally touched on Kennedy’s controversial positions on vaccines and medical freedom.
Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL) famous that it was the primary time in at the very least twenty years that the Secretary of HHS testified earlier than the HELP Committee relating to a price range proposal. In actual fact, Secretary Tommy Thompson, who served from 2001 to 2005 beneath President George W. Bush, was the final HHS secretary to look earlier than the HELP Committee on presidential price range proposals, ramping as much as the Hen Flu pandemic of 2005, extensively mentioned in my e-book, Zero Accountability.
Sec. Kennedy once more defended the proposed price range cuts and restructuring plans. He endured and stood agency as he was challenged in regards to the influence these adjustments might have on public well being infrastructure and companies. As seen within the earlier Committee assembly, most Senators barely allowed him to reply, and most questions required greater than a sure/no reply to their self-serving inquiries.
At one level, and out of frustration, Sec. Kennedy mentioned, “You requested me a query. Are you going to let me reply or not?”
The senators didn’t appear within the solutions. None appeared joyful and even curious in regards to the billions of {dollars} of waste that had been being eradicated by streamlining the redundancy inside the company.
In every of the hearings, members made positive the measles outbreaks had been stored on the desk and within the information, little question to maintain their Pharma supporters joyful. Hold this in thoughts the following time they’re up for re-election:
- Within the Home Appropriations listening to, Consultant Mark Pocan (D-WI) requested Kennedy if he would vaccinate his youngsters towards measles right now. [NOTE: He said, “This is not intended to be a ‘gotcha’ question…” but it was clearly a GOTCHA question that he asked repeatedly.]
- Within the Senate HELP Committee listening to, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) confronted Secretary Kennedy about his earlier statements undermining the measles vaccine. Murphy antagonized Kennedy over his claims that the vaccine’s effectiveness wanes rapidly, was by no means totally examined for security, and it accommodates “fetal particles.” Kennedy affirmed these assertions, stating, “All true. All true,” which Murphy contested as “misinformation.” [NOTE: IMO Sen. Murphy should do some homework so he knows what he’s talking about.]
- Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) addressed issues in regards to the measles outbreak and with out permitting Sec. Kennedy to completely reply, she badgered him about his “inconsistency and lack of readability” to endorse vaccines. [NOTE: She is truly toxic in every hearing I have listened to.]
- The ultimate senator to talk through the session, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), expressed issues in regards to the ongoing measles outbreak and questioned Secretary Kennedy relating to his stance on vaccinations. Alsobrooks emphasised the significance of clear public well being messaging to advertise vaccine confidence. [NOTE: Another senator who warns we need to “keep the faith in vaccines.” She needs to read a package insert and not spout pharma mantras about “safe and effective.”]
In the course of the session, Senator Invoice Cassidy (R-LA), the present Chair of the Senate HELP Committee, needed to put is 2 cents into “the significance of vaccines” – hear:
As soon as once more, Dr. Cassidy was mistaken.
When you didn’t catch what he mentioned, right here it’s:
“…no vaccines have been examined towards a placebo. For the file, that’s not true. The rotavirus, measles, and HPV vaccines have been [tested against a placebo] and a few vaccines are examined towards earlier variations. For the file, I needed to set that straight.”
For the file, Senator Cassidy, right here’s the reality that should set YOUR feedback straight.
In lots of vaccine trials, the placebo is formulated to match the vaccine’s excipients (like stabilizers, buffers, or adjuvants) with out the lively element (e.g., dwell virus strains, inactivated virus). This violates the definition of placebo for security.
The 2 rotavirus vaccines at the moment in the marketplace, Rotateq and Rotarix, weren’t examined towards a placebo, outlined as a biologically inert substance. The “placebo” utilized in scientific trials for BOTH of those oral vaccines was was the identical resolution because the precise vaccine, minus the dwell virus strains. So it was evaluating the vaccine towards itself for SAFETY.
The New England Journal of Drugs article, Security and Efficacy of a Pentavalent HumanBovine (WC3) Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine, (published in 2006) states that the placebo is “visibly indistinguishable” from the vaccine (pg. 25) which incorporates the next components:
- Sucrose
- Sodium citrate
- Sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate
- Sodium hydroxide
- Polysorbate 80
- Hint VERO cells (monkey kidney)
- Hint fetal bovine serum (from cow blood)
In line with analysis posted by activist, author, and buddy, Ginger Taylor:
I can discover no file that the Merck measles vaccine was placebo examined earlier than it was launched in 1963. Merck reported five years later the MMR was security examined towards one other measles vaccine. As well as, there was no single antigen measles vaccine in america since 2004. The one measles vaccine obtainable are Merck’s MMR (launched in 1963) or the MMRV mixture vaccines (launched in 2005).
Not one of the Gardasil trials used a real saline placebo throughout all contributors. Within the majority of Gardasil’s pre-licensure scientific trials, the placebo was Merck’s proprietary amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate (AAHS), which accommodates 225 mcg of aluminum per dose, matching the aluminum content material within the vaccine itself.
One Gardasil trial, V501-018, used the vaccine’s service resolution (L-histidine, polysorbate 80, sodium borate, residual yeast protein) because the placebo, not saline nor AAHS. In a single small trial, a management group (594 people) within the quadrivalent Gardasil trials obtained a saline placebo, however then, after about 30 days, was given Gardasil, which disrupted any long-term analysis of unwanted side effects vs. true placebo.
So, three for 3, Dr./Senator Cassidy, you had been mistaken.
As the primary doctor to chair the HELP committee since 1933, when it was often known as the Training and Labor Committee, and the loudest pro-vaccine voice on the committee (possibly in all of Congress), at the very least it’s best to know one thing about what you’re claiming earlier than you attempt to take a educated individual to activity.
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is a globally acknowledged chief in exposing vaccine risks and medical corruption. With over 50,000 hours of analysis spanning greater than 25 years, she was one of many first medical professionals to sound the alarm on vaccine dangers, paving the way in which for a lot of of right now’s voices within the medical freedom motion. Her relentless dedication to uncovering the reality behind public well being insurance policies, pharmaceutical affect, and vaccine-related accidents has made her some of the sought-after educators and audio system within the subject.
