At his press conference today, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro accused me of promoting conspiracy theories because I told him, during an earlier telephone conversation, that some Americans had religious objections to the MMR vaccine because it contained fetal tissue. “There is no fetal tissue in the MMR,” he told me.
This is a segment from a videotaped deposition of Stanley Plotkin, the inventor of the MMR vaccine. Plotkin admits to butchering 76 aborted normally developing fetuses, all over three months old, in just one of the many studies that led to the development of his vaccine.
The rubella virus used in MMR-II is grown on the cultured cell line composed of lung tissue from an aborted three-month-old female embryo and listed as “WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts” in the ingredients of MMR-II as portions of these cells end up in each vial of MMR II.
During Dr. Plotkin’s deposition, Attorney Aaron Siri asked: “Isn’t it true that MMR II contains approximately 150 nanograms cells substrate double-strand DNA and single-strand DNA per dose purposefully fragmented to approximately 215 base pairs in length?” Dr. Plotkin answered: “Yeah, that’s probably correct, yes.”
This equals approximately 646 billion pieces of human DNA from an aborted fetal cell line in each vial of MMR-II.
In addition to the human DNA, there is also an unspecified amount of human cellular debris in each dose of MMR-II.
During our phone conversation, Governor Shapiro also accused me of promoting vaccine misinformation. When I asked him for an example, he was unable to provide one, but this did not deter him from publicly repeating that accusation during his press event. As I told him, HHS does not tolerate misinformation by any employee. I offered to point to hundreds of instances of vaccine misinformation by the Biden administration about which I had never heard him complain.
Governor Shapiro also faulted me for the decline in Pennsylvania vaccination rates from 97% - 93.2%. When I pushed back on this assertion, he acknowledged that most of the decline occurred during the Biden administration. It’s unfortunately true that the government lockdowns, deceptions, manipulation, and overreach during Covid severely damaged public faith in the vaccine program.
Governor Shapiro’s press conference was an example of the same species of gaslighting.
The Trump administration is working to restore public trust not by gaslighting or manipulating, but by being truthful, at last, with the public.
I posted this week from a place of stress, and I said more, faster, and louder than the moment called for. I don't regret caring about doing things the right way. I do regret making it a public spectacle before it was understood, and pulling people I respect into the swirl. That part is on me.
I'm deleting the threads, going to step back and let this be handled the way it should be. Thank you to the ones who checked in quietly.
If we don’t start talking about women valuing careers over marriage and family, it’s not going to matter if we win elections or not. Women choosing jobs over babies will destroy civilization eventually, regardless of whether they vote for Republicans.
You cannot conserve a nation without conserving families.
Sometimes, I think we’re missing the forest for the trees.
Medical Establishment: We’ve never had better tools to help treat cancer!
Me: That’s great. But why do are so many people getting cancer?
Medical Establishment: There are amazing medicines to treat the millions with immune disorders!
Me: Terrific. But why do so many people have immune disorders?
Medical Establishment: There are new and better treatments for so many mental illnesses today!
Me: Okay, but why do so many people have mental illness?
Medical Establishment: We’re learning some of the secrets to correcting metabolic disorders!
Me: Good news. But why do so many people have metabolic disorders?
Medical Establishment: We’re cracking the code to help fix gut health!
Me: Important. But why are so many people’s guts messed up?
Medical Establishment: We’re devoting more resources than ever to figuring out how to mitigate side effects from treatments for trans people!
Me: Bravo. But why do so many girls say they’re boys, and boys say they’re girls?
Medical Establishment: We’ve made great strides in acceptance of obese people.
Me: Cool. But shouldn’t we tackle the issues making so many Americans overweight?
Medical Establishment: We have great options for injections for people who can’t absorb B12 and Vitamin D!
Me: Nice. But why are so many people not able to absorb B12 and Vitamin D?
Medical Establishment: We’re figuring out what diet and therapies really work for autistic kids.
Me: Yeah— but why do so many kids have autism?
What if we really studied and addressed root causes and it ended up solving a lot of these same issues?
@GrowingUpRetro Letting kids ride to town in the back of the pickup truck. Feels pretty strange to me now 😆. Also, we never ate fast food unless we were traveling or on vacation.
Look, I'm an atheist so I have no dog in this fight. But this is utter horseshit.
Regardless of my lack of belief, this garbage offends my fundamental sense of justice and fairness. You simply cannot treat one religion (or group of ppl) as fair game while the other ones are sacrosanct whose offense must be avoided at all times.
A societly simply cannot be healthy when that kind of cherry picking is the norm, where some religions (or some races) are free to mock, ridicule and discriminate against but others are sacred.
And to be clear, the solution isnt to make Christianity off limits either, its to make it just as acceptable to make fun of the other religions. We live in a secular society and secularism should be zealously defended; No free and open society can allow de facto blasphemy laws to sneak in through the back door
Let's be clear - none of the three HHS secretaries under Presidents Obama and Biden held an MD or PhD.
Kathleen Sebelius (Obama, 2009–2014): Held a Bachelor of Arts (Trinity Washington University) and a Master of Public Administration (University of Kansas). She did not have a doctorate or medical degree.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell (Obama, 2014–2017) did not possess a master's, PhD, or other advanced degree.
Xavier Becerra (Biden, 2021–2025): Held a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Juris Doctor (JD) from Stanford University. He is an attorney, not a medical doctor or PhD holder.
So - why has mainstream media made such a BFD about Kennedy not being a scientist or MD? Why do they continue to hammer at this?
This has to be one of the most insane takes of all time. @RepThomasMassie are you actually intaking oxygen?
Don't look now brother, but you're not only arguing that (A) Johnson, Thune, and Trump are the ones to blame when they fund government programs with good faith expectations that those funds will actually be used in non-fraudulent ways, rather than blaming the predatory fraudsters who took advantage of those rational expectations; but you're also (B) suggesting an independent journalist somehow lacks integrity for his not blaming that trio in DC for the fraudulent acts of third party criminals in Minnesota.
Truly insane.
Especially when you realize it was Trump who received daily baseless criticism for trying to to give DOGE the resources it needed to be that very watchdog.
Of all the people on this website to go afyer, Massie is trashing the one guy who’s going out and doing fantastic investigative journalism by himself, at great personal risk and expense, because he’s not attacking Trump.
Keep it up, @nickshirleyy. You’re crushing it.
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Babies have a way of just totally changing your perspective and shifting priorities in a way that can never be fully described in words.
It takes an incredibly strong person to make this decision. I am so incredibly proud of @karolineleavitt.
She is the example women and girls need.
The court says the parents that contracted the child cannot kill him.
But they will still have custody.
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