About this episode
Dr. Offit is a pediatrician; a professor of both pediatrics and vaccinology; director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology and is a member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee and has published hundreds of papers in medical and scientific journals.
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00:00 Intro
00:24 Welcome and bio
02:02 Background for topics
05:35 RFK Jr.: conspiracy theorist
10:37 RFK Jr. "no vaccine has ever been beneficial" BS; and the real truth about vaccine successes
15:36 The potential fallout of having an anti-vaccination activist as head of HHS
18:11 Chronic disease vs. infectious disease
19:00 Dr. Oz for CMS?
20:36 Weldon for CDC?
22:57 Makary for FDA?
26:17 Instilling trust by admitting mistakes
27:26 Yet another RFK Jr. conspiracy theory
28:48 Bhattacharya for NIH?
31:16 COVID revisionism and lab leak BS
37:39 Politicizing science - contrarians over credibility
39:39 Nuanced messaging
40:46 Learning as you go, and the overall system at work
44:03 Ending on a positive note (for some…)
