by Higgenbotham » Wed Sep 03, 2025 2:22 pm
Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 10:11 am
He (Robert F Kennedy Jr) hired David Geier, a promoter of the link (of vaccines to autism), to review CDC vaccine databases to study the issue, unsettling career CDC officials tasked with working with him.
Dan Jernigan, who helped oversee the CDC’s infectious-disease response, told The Post he quit in part because HHS was demanding Geier be given access to sensitive vaccine safety data as part of examining autism.
“What we see is a desire to go back and try and find those links that had been identified not to be there previously,” Jernigan said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... 381875178f
Nothing to see here! Move along!
Related. I don't think I need to explain. As I've said, large corporations have a lot of problems, a lot of things to hide, and they need to keep a lot of secrets. Whether it's toxics releases, or what have you, it all works about the same. Having only seen some parts of the vast machine it can be inferred that other parts work similarly.
Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:21 am
John wrote:Higgenbotham wrote:Or maybe I've just lost my mind and really don't understand how things are supposed to work.
All of us in this forum have lost our minds, Higgy.
John
The breakdown in standards in the Engineering profession (if you could seriously call it a profession) has been going on for awhile but I got more confirmation of that this month in following up on a situation that occurred in the year 2000.
I don't know if you all remember, but it seems like when a skywalk collapsed in Kansas City about 30 years ago, the engineers responsible went to prison. I'll look into that to confirm. (In fact they lost their licenses but were absolved of criminal negligence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Rege ... y_collapse)
In the year 2000, I was told to inspect a mercury recycling plant. It wasn't too long after that a colleague warned me that the director of our region had met with an attorney who wanted any violations found at the recycler swept under the rug. Apparently, my role was to generate enough useful information to do that.
To make a long story short I told them I could not do that. I characterized the plant as "an accident waiting to happen". I suggested they find another engineer to do their dirty work because I wasn't going to, and they did.
So this month I decided to do a search for that and lo and behold there was an explosion and release of mercury in 2003 and another one in 2006. Result? The company was fined a "slap on the wrist" amount of $54,000 by EPA. Nobody went to prison, nothing. I distinctly recall being concerned that if I gave that facility the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" that I might one day be going to prison when the likely explosion and release did occur.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.ns ... Expand=5.2
I had also heard rumors that 4 drums of PCBs had been unaccounted for.
By the way, an H1-B covered it for them. That's why they need them. In my experience, it's never been for the reasons they say. All the needed expertise exists here in the US. Also, had I talked to the company about being hired to prevent a future explosion, they would have said no. It's cheaper to pay the $54,000 than to get someone to fix the problems. As for the 4 drums of PCBs, "Red Dot" covered that for them. I've discussed her previously.
[quote=Higgenbotham post_id=91864 time=1756735864 user_id=100]
[quote]He (Robert F Kennedy Jr) hired David Geier, a promoter of the link (of vaccines to autism), to review CDC vaccine databases to study the issue, unsettling career CDC officials tasked with working with him.[/quote]
[quote]Dan Jernigan, who helped oversee the CDC’s infectious-disease response, told The Post he quit in part because HHS was demanding Geier be given access to sensitive vaccine safety data as part of examining autism.
“What we see is a desire to go back and try and find those links that had been identified not to be there previously,” Jernigan said.[/quote]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/30/cdc-vaccines-rfk-jr-future/?utm_campaign=wp_the7&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F447fc59%2F68b57a60ade2b5381875178f%2F639eb4c6c5a38f5037d1639d%2F53%2F102%2F68b57a60ade2b5381875178f
Nothing to see here! Move along![/quote]
Related. I don't think I need to explain. As I've said, large corporations have a lot of problems, a lot of things to hide, and they need to keep a lot of secrets. Whether it's toxics releases, or what have you, it all works about the same. Having only seen some parts of the vast machine it can be inferred that other parts work similarly.
[quote=Higgenbotham post_id=25259 time=1408854089 user_id=100]
[quote="John"][quote="Higgenbotham"]Or maybe I've just lost my mind and really don't understand how things are supposed to work.[/quote]
All of us in this forum have lost our minds, Higgy.
John[/quote]
The breakdown in standards in the Engineering profession (if you could seriously call it a profession) has been going on for awhile but I got more confirmation of that this month in following up on a situation that occurred in the year 2000.
I don't know if you all remember, but it seems like when a skywalk collapsed in Kansas City about 30 years ago, the engineers responsible went to prison. I'll look into that to confirm. (In fact they lost their licenses but were absolved of criminal negligence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse)
In the year 2000, I was told to inspect a mercury recycling plant. It wasn't too long after that a colleague warned me that the director of our region had met with an attorney who wanted any violations found at the recycler swept under the rug. Apparently, my role was to generate enough useful information to do that.
To make a long story short I told them I could not do that. I characterized the plant as "an accident waiting to happen". I suggested they find another engineer to do their dirty work because I wasn't going to, and they did.
So this month I decided to do a search for that and lo and behold there was an explosion and release of mercury in 2003 and another one in 2006. Result? The company was fined a "slap on the wrist" amount of $54,000 by EPA. Nobody went to prison, nothing. I distinctly recall being concerned that if I gave that facility the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" that I might one day be going to prison when the likely explosion and release did occur.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/6427a6b7538955c585257359003f0230/cf9b9f45d9e9a5b98525766a005b6844!OpenDocument&Start=5.2&Count=5&Expand=5.2
I had also heard rumors that 4 drums of PCBs had been unaccounted for.[/quote]
By the way, an H1-B covered it for them. That's why they need them. In my experience, it's never been for the reasons they say. All the needed expertise exists here in the US. Also, had I talked to the company about being hired to prevent a future explosion, they would have said no. It's cheaper to pay the $54,000 than to get someone to fix the problems. As for the 4 drums of PCBs, "Red Dot" covered that for them. I've discussed her previously.