"was told to stop all experimental work" - the word 'experimental' makes me wonder if the title may be hyperbolic.
I don't infer from this story (article didn't feel right) that they will no longer be studying infectious diseases.
Does anyone have more information on what the experimental work actually is? Or how it relates to the body of work carried out by NIAID.
RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
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The article title appears to be pure rage bait. Which from wired is not a surprise. That it actually induces rage on Hacker News is always a surprise to me.
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I sincerely believe RFK's viewpoint is just straightforward old fashioned eugenics. He believes in "making america healthy" in that sense that if you die of something that's proof you weren't healthy.
Can you share why you believe that?
I've seen him talk mainly about man made things (food dies, fast food, etc) so wouldn't have gotten to eugenics.
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>What the hell are they thinking? Maybe you're not from the US, or maybe you are haven't been paying attention, but during the entire election the party that won told us this is exactly what they were going to do.
I don't think most people realized they'd be gutting all medical/health research. It's also incredibly unpopular even among the right.
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What in the actual hell is that site? Are we really moving into the stupidest timeline at mach 10? That page title is utterly absurd.
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According to the article:
This decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture, prompting this research pause.
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I sincerely believe RFK's viewpoint is just straightforward old fashioned eugenics. He believes in "making america healthy" in that sense that if you die of something that's proof you weren't healthy.
Can you share why you believe that? I've seen him talk mainly about man made things (food dies, fast food, etc) so wouldn't have gotten to eugenics.
His statements on Autism?
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If you assume all that is true, the people you'd want to fire would be in China.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology and it's gain of function work that made coronaviruses more infectious was funded by the NIH.
So... why exactly are we attacking NIH employees for the mistakes made by people living in Wuhan?
A sufficiently nefarious interpretation of events might even implicate China regardless of how much America pays them. It already happened in Russia with Biopreparat during the Cold War, no reason it wouldn't happen again.