Wednesday, April 30, 2025

RFK, Jr. Is Not Just A Hapless Loon -- He's A Dangerous... Luddite.


Tonight, Wired has an exclusive story that a branch of NIH -- the part housed at Fort Detrick, and tasked with studies on dangerous and highly-infectious human viral diseases -- has been ordered to stand down, entirely. All reasearch is at an end.

Kennedy is utterly beholden to Trump. And he is putting hundreds of thousands of American lives in real and present danger. . . just to curry favor with the boss:

. . .According to an email viewed by WIRED, the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, Maryland, was told to stop all experimental work by April 29 at 5 pm. The facility is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is located at the US Army base Fort Detrick. It conducts research on the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases that are deemed “high consequence”—those that pose significant risks to public health. It has 168 employees, including federal workers and contractors. . . .

The email, sent by Michael Holbrook, associate director for high containment at the Integrated Research Facility, says the lab is terminating studies on Lassa fever, SARS-Cov-2, and Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, a rare but lethal mosquito-borne disease that has been reported in several northern US states. “We are collecting as many samples as is reasonable to ensure these studies are of value,” he says in the email. “We have not been asked to euthanize any animals so these animals will continue to be managed.” Holbrook did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED. . . .


In a word -- deplorable. This is just profoundly backward thinking, all the way around. Out.

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