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Despite its belonging to the right -wing extremist conspiracy ideology and one McDonald’s visit With the vaccine -critical Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears Elon Musk To cross the border when he claims that vaccines are completely ineffective and potentially dangerous.
At the beginning of this week, Podcaster Joe Rogan had a guest. Dr. Suzanne Humphries. A nephrologist who published the book published in 2013 in self -published Dissolving Illusions: Diseases, vaccines and forgotten historypublished. In it, she mistakenly claimed that vaccines are not responsible for the decline in infectious diseases such as smallpox and polio.
In her interview, Humphries represented her conspiratorial narrative that medical researchers counteracted her data. To justify vaccinations. While people actually became sick from environmental toxins that were spread through poor sanitary facilities and hygiene. Which quickly improved from the 19th century and contaminated the spread of diseases.
Tuberculosis “a side effect of the rock vaccine”
Humphries provided in Rogans Podcast An enormously wrong claim after the other. In various places, she claimed that tuberculosis was “a side effect of the rock vaccine”. That polio cases would be caused by the insecticide ddt. And that Covid-19 in the laboratory was manipulated so that it contains “snake oxin proteins”. What apparently one Year -old conspiracy theory takes up, according to which people get the disease through snake poison in drinking water.
“I would have told you that vaccines are one of the most important inventions in human history,” said Rogan to Humphries during her conversation. He seemed to accept everything she told him as a fact. “And they kept us in front of the polio and smallpox. I would have been the guy who downried all of these statistics. I would have told you that. But then I read your book.” He also said: “Giving a baby vaccination to a baby today is crazy.”
“‘Dissolving Illusions’ is a really great book”, wrote Rogan later to X. and divided a contribution by a user who described the Humphries episode as “its most important podcast of the year”. He continued: “I would probably never have thought of researching the true history of the vaccines. If we hadn’t gone through the crazy Covid gas lighting of the past 5 years. But according to Dr. Humphries’ book I will never look at it again. She is a very brave and brilliant woman.”
Vaccines well against diseases
Elon Musk was often a guest at Rogan. And is usually agreed on questions of the cultural war. The couple also supported Donald Trump In the 2024 elections. Musk now pushed Joe Rogan back on his social media platform, although still slightly reserved.
“My opinion on this topic: If one is forced to choose between greatly improved sanitary facilities and vaccines, sanitary facilities are much more important,” said the oligarch, who now monitors the decimation of federal authorities and regulatory authorities by the so -called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). “But vaccines that essentially train their immune system for fighting are well suited to combat many diseases. The essentials of science is to continuously examine the evidence. To reduce the discrepancy between their understanding of reality and reality itself.”
Vaccines are a special line of conflict within the MagaMovement that connected Musk and Rogan. Trump, for example, tried the laurels for the Covid-19-to secure vaccines. The mainly those who were developed during his first term. But a significant part of the base of the Republicans suspicion of vaccine science. And has made it an election campaign topic since the outbreak of pandemic. As head of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Kennedy has already prompted to examine the vaccination plan for children for diseases such as polio and measles this year Hundreds of infections and two Have caused deaths in the United States.
He praised the advantages of natural immunity after infection
Kennedy also has a discredited anti-vaccine researcher Commissioned to examine the long -refuted “connection” between vaccinations and autism. He has misleadingly claimedthat factors such as malnutrition or existing health problems contribute to measles infections. And has played down the possible effects of the disease, the patients who survive they survive can permanently blind or dust. Instead, he praised the advantages of natural immunity after the infection.
Similarly, Humphries seemed to indicate in Rogan’s podcast that Polio is not as bad as many people think because most cases are asymptomatic. But in the mid -20th century she killed or paralyzed worldwide Half a million people a year. And was one of the main causes of disabilities in children. In the worst documented outbreak in the history of the United States in 1952, 3,000 people died. Thanks to the safe and effective vaccines that were available for the first time in 1955, Polio was considered in North and South America from 1994 exhausted.
Musk has X to one Refuge for misinformation made. And often reinforces such content. “After Covid-19 I deepened into the vaccine issue. And now suspect that we were lied to on an industrial scale”, commented one Verified Blue Check user with more than 100,000 followers. “I think the evidence shows, if we watch them honestly, with an overwhelming majority that vaccines are at best unnecessary. And to worst have caused enormous damage/negligible benefits.”
In view of the type of platform and the audience he has built, it does not seem as if Musk is praised for the fact that he stands against the emerging consensus in his party that vaccinations are worse than the diseases from which they protect. It would certainly be surprising if he would question this worldview again.