Barbara Loeppke

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@bryan_johnson I guess you didn’t check into the vaccine they used in those studies. Zostravax is not being used in the US anymore. So you aren’t even getting what you think you are. Shingrix was not studied.

[Del Bigtree @delbigtree]

Had another interview with a reporter the other day and they asked me about the studies the government has done on the shots collectively given to infants in the first year of life, and whether they used a proper control group of children who didn't receive those shots.

These studies are such a joke. What they end up doing with MMR, for instance, is saying they took children who got all the vaccines except MMR, then all the vaccines plus MMR, and didn't see a statistically significant uptick in autism, and therefore MMR doesn't cause autism.

And that study is fine, if all the other vaccines have already been proven not to cause autism. Then you have a proper control group. But the Institute of Medicine states clearly there is no study that isolates the DTaP vaccine. And the CDC has suspected DTaP since the 1986 Act, which literally listed diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis as being associated with autism and as the first thing that should be investigated once they took on the liability.

That investigation has never happened. I think we should ask ourselves why.

Because if DTaP causes autism, it erases the validity of the MMR study entirely. Your control group had a product in it that can cause autism. That is the problem with the science that has been done so far.

I have had both Dr. Stanley Plotkin and Kathryn Edwards on the stand in front of @AaronSiriSG, two of the most iconic figures in the vaccine space. When asked, listing every vaccine one by one, "Do you have a study showing it doesn't cause autism?" Kathryn Edwards had none.

Stanley Plotkin stated the same thing under oath. What they both explained is that they made an assumption that vaccines don't cause autism. I have that on video on my website. These are the authors of Plotkin's Vaccines, considered the bible on vaccinations.

So if your top vaccine scientists cannot provide a single study under oath, why are newspapers reporting there are mountains of evidence? I sued the CDC. I said show me the trials you relied upon for the first six vaccines in the first six months of life to conclude they don't cause autism. They had zero. Not for Hepatitis B. Not for polio. Not for DTaP. Zero.

There is no two or three year placebo trial for these products like you would see with every other drug. And that is not an accident. Causation is established in a placebo trial. If you skip that trial, you remove your ability to ever get to causation. You are permanently stuck in the land of "associated with."

And the agency that is required to do the safety studies is the same agency defending itself in court against me. They are not doing the science, so you cannot win. That is where we are.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

HOLY SH*T!

These college students claimed Trump was horrible during the State of the Union. The problem is, it hadn’t happened yet.

Their parents should have asked for their money back!

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

@DrPaulOffit @CDCgov @US_FDA @RobertKennedyJr @nytimes @statnews @PeterHotez https://t.co/xgJtV6H41O

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Virtually all childhood vaccines on @CDCgov schedule, including RotaTeq, were not licensed by @US_FDA based on a placebo controlled clinical trial. @RobertKennedyJr is correct on that point. @nytimes @statnews @DrPaulOffit @PeterHotez are all dead wrong. https://t.co/0QNihjGRQ8

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@BarackObama Butt ugly building. Couldn’t you do better?

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@RobertKennedyJr @JamesOKeefeIII Mandy gave an interview wherein she stated that she was proud that she had the CDC re-do the website and archived 60% of the site. I’m guessing she was part of this action with the GAO.

[Dr Suzanne Humphries @DrSuzanneH7]

Here is the live presentation from CHD, which was compressed to 30 minutes, where the real @Judyth Judyth Vary Baker was introduced in the end.

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

AN INCONVENIENT STUDY - FEATURE FILM https://t.co/sAjsqU8NyR via @YouTube

[Aleksandr Da Creator 🇺🇸👌🏼 @AleksDaCreator]

@PopCrave No kings huh? 🤔

[No place like home 🇺🇸 @BerkenShirley]

@P_McCulloughMD https://t.co/GfM0euChYp

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@TWilsthecat @mmpadellan @smc429 Oz doesn’t own prescription leucovorin.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Yesterday, I retired 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, the @CDCgov external panel that wields the grave responsibility of adding new vaccines to the recommended childhood schedule. Over the coming days, I will use this platform to announce new members to populate ACIP. None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers. They will be highly credentialed physicians and scientists who will make extremely consequential public health determinations by applying evidence-based decision-making with objectivity and common sense.

I will also be tweeting examples of the historical corruption at ACIP to help the public understand why this clean sweep was necessary.

The most outrageous example of ACIP’s malevolent malpractice has been its stubborn unwillingness to demand adequate safety trials before recommending new vaccines for our children. Today, a compliant American child receives between 69 and 92 routine vaccines (depending on brand/dictated dosage) from conception to 18 years of age. This is up from 11 shots in 1986. ACIP has recommended each of these additional jabs without requiring placebo-controlled trials for any of them. This means that no one can scientifically ascertain whether these products are averting more problems than they are causing.

Many vaccine promoters have challenged this assertion. They are always wrong. Last week, @CNN, which has devolved into a shameless propagandist for Big Pharma, triumphantly announced that it had proof that my pronouncement that “there have been no placebo-controlled safety trials for any routine vaccines” was false. CNN gleefully proclaimed that it had found 257 placebo-controlled studies for routine vaccines.

So, allow me a moment to deconstruct CNN’s claims. Warning: this post may only be sufferable for science geeks like myself.

CNN is wrong. No routine injected vaccine on CDC’s schedule was licensed for children based on a placebo-controlled trial. In instances where a vaccine was used as a control, it too was never licensed based on a placebo-controlled trial. That is not conjecture. It is a fact based on FDA’s clinical trial data. (See https://t.co/q1xAtVxJ4N). As Secretary of @HHSGov, acknowledging this lamentable truth is part of my promise of radical transparency.

The 257 studies cited by CNN unwittingly reflect the lack of safety trials underpinning CDC’s schedule. Despite CNN’s worldwide effort to crowdsource trials with a placebo control (per @US_FDA/@CDCgov, an “inert substance”*), this list, on its face, reflects that 236 of the studies clearly did not use an “inert” safety comparator in a trial to license an injected routine vaccine for children on CDC’s schedule.**

For the remaining 21 studies CNN’s list claims used an inert injection, 9 plainly did not:

• RCT 251, 252 (Varivax) injected an antibiotic, neomycin – not inert.
• RCT 84, 97 (HPV-16 and 16/18) injected aluminum adjuvant – not inert.
• RCT 215 (Almevax) injected another vaccine – not inert.
• RCT 55 (Lyophilized PedvaxHIB) injected lactose, aluminum adjuvant, and thimerosal – not inert.
• RCT 197 (Salk vaccine) injected 199 solution, synthetic tissue culture, ethanol, phenol red, antibiotics, and formalin – not inert.***
• RCT 168 (Dow’s MMR) injected full vaccine minus virus, including all stabilizers, antibiotics, diluent, preservative, and buffers – not inert.****
• RCT 189 (Menveo) injected Tdap+saline or Menveo+saline – not inert.

For the remaining 12 listed studies which may have had an inert injection, none was a trial relied upon to license a routine vaccine on CDC’s childhood schedule:

• RCT 170, 171, 172 (MMR VaxPro), 228 (PCV11), 136 (Vaxigrip), 242 (Antitetanus), and 122 (Chinese flu shots) trialed vaccines never licensed in the U.S. nor relied upon to license a U.S. vaccine.
• RCT 124 (Fluzone IIV3), 102 (WVV/SPV), and 188 (Menveo) trials occurred after each respective vaccine was licensed, hence were not relied upon for their licensure.
• RCT 176 (Mumps vaccine) was not relied upon by the FDA to license the current MMR vaccine. (See MMR-II clinical trial report in link above.)
• RCT 53 (PRP-D) was for a vaccine withdrawn soon after its introduction and not relied upon by the FDA to license any U.S. vaccine.

While these 12 studies were not relied upon to license a routine vaccine on the CDC’s schedule, they do reflect that a placebo-controlled trial of a vaccine is possible. They also reflect what can be learned when a placebo trial is performed. For example: RCT 136 found the vaccine ineffective; RCT 122 found that “severe adverse effects occurred in 69 (0·6%, 95% CI 0·5–0·8) recipients of vaccine compared with one recipient (0·1%, 0–0·2) of placebo.”; and RCT 124 found “the rate of hospitalization was actually higher in the [Fluzone IIV3] vaccine group than in the placebo group.”

The unfortunate reality is that placebo-controlled trials, however, do not occur and have not been relied upon when FDA licenses vaccines for injection during childhood or ACIP recommends the shot for addition to the CDC’s routine schedule.

CNN would have reached the same conclusion had it reviewed the FDA documentation for each vaccine, instead of relying upon a random, crowd-sourced list from the internet. CNN’s list ironically proves the lack of adequate safety trials for routine childhood vaccines.

It is time to stop playing games, such as CNN’s false gotcha. We have gone from 3 routine injections by age one in 1986 (the year the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed) to 25 routine injections by age one in 2025 (which now does not include Covid-19 vaccine). Because of the 1986 Act, every one of these products, save one, was developed by companies knowing they would almost never be liable for serious harm. During this same period, chronic diseases in our children exploded, most of which are caused by immune system dysregulation. If we are to identify the exposures that are causing this epidemic of autoimmune diseases, we need to rule out products given dozens of times to young children, specifically to modify the immune system, as potential culprits.

Our infants and children deserve the best safety trials possible to keep them safe. We should care as much about every child who could be injured by one of these products as we do every child who could be injured by an infectious disease. We must protect all children.

Notes:

* https://t.co/o6PtXJVxrv (“Placebos, defined as inert substances with no pharmacologic activity, are commonly used in double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trials.”); https://t.co/KwvrlZSkok (“the placebo control design, by … including a group that receives an inert treatment…”); https://t.co/8eJ0PNI5Mp (“Placebo: A substance or treatment that has no effect on living beings, usually used as a comparison to vaccine or medicine in clinical trials.”).

** While the above addresses injected vaccines, CNN’s cited list also includes 10 trials for rotavirus vaccine, given by oral drops, but none of these trials used saline only drops. Instead, RCT 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213 (Rotarix) contained dextran, sorbitol, amino acids, dulbecco’s modified eagle medium, calcium carbonate, and xanthan; RCT 211, 212 (RotaTeq) contained polysorbate 80, sucrose, citrate and phosphate; and RCT 206, 214 (Rotavac) included neomycin sulphate, kanamycin acid sulphate, trehalose, lactalbumin hydrolysate, human albumin, potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate, dipotassium hydrogen orthophosphate, and trisodium citrate dihydrate. The list also included three trials of an inhaled flu vaccine; the controls in RCT 104 were OPV+saline or LAIV (a vaccine), hence neither inert; in RCT 106 the control “consisted of normal allantoic fluid harvested from uninfected eggs stabilized with sucrose–phosphate–glutamate”; and, in RCT 109, the control was “intranasal spray of egg allantoic fluid containing sucrose-phosphate-glutamate.”

*** Note that the current polio vaccines used in the U.S. are a different product than the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in the 1950s—which was discontinued in the 1960s—including because the currently-used polio vaccines are “grown in vero cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells cultivated on microcarriers.”

Hence, the Salk trial was not relied upon to license any current polio vaccine.

https://t.co/ko1RUVXSYi; https://t.co/FnwWUZulTF;
https://‌https://t.co/jWbEOEXKIG‌media/1222‌49/‌vero-cell-line-profile.pdf; https://t.co/dg7R93iqT2.

**** Dow Chemical’s MMR vaccine used different strains than any licensed U.S. MMR vaccine and also, after 14 days of safety review, this trial vaccinated all participants.

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@TammyWright21 @SecKennedy @CDCgov And you are who? Just a shrill shill with zero to back up your claim. And stop talking about other people’s dead parents like you knew them - that shows your complete lack of maturity and education.

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@Lorenzo7127 @isyoursoulsaved @JaxenReport Placebo? No. None used inert or saline placebos. A ln active adjuvant or another vaccine is NOT an inert placebo. Call the manufacturer and ask them what the “placebo” was.

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@IamTybalt79 @ChaseDbc456 @isyoursoulsaved @JaxenReport In a novel vaccine, saline or inert is ALWAYS suitable. And even in non-novel, saline or inert is always suitable. Not sure why you think it isn’t.

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@isyoursoulsaved @JaxenReport It is difficult to get the unvaccinated to want to be in a trial where they might get the vaccine or the vaccinated to chance not getting the vaccine. Not impossible but harder to recruit.

[Barbara Loeppke @ResearchingMama]

@MeganSuspended @alketamark @JaxenReport Actually, you’re stating this backwards. Efficacy cannot be tested with a placebo unless you do a challenge group where you expose the trial to the virus. A saline placebo and the vaccine given in the trial will show the safety.

[MAHA PAC🗽 @MAHA_PAC]

Stephen A. Smith asked RFK how he’ll improve health while making major budget cuts.

RFK’s response did not disappoint.

Stephen A. Smith: “HHS reduced your employee status from 82,000 to 62,000 employees… how on earth are you gonna ensure that we're gonna become a healthier society with over 20,000 less employees?”

RFK: “I would say during the Biden administration, my agency grew by 38% and Americans got sicker.”

“It's not throwing money at it or hiring people that is solving the problem.”

“95% of our health care budget is going to chronic disease.”

“74% of our kids cannot qualify for military service. So this is an existential threat to our national security.”

“It's an existential threat to our economy, and we have to narrowly focus on that.”

“That's what the new HHS is doing.”