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00:10:06.620The same is true of the trans-identifying mass shooter here in Tennessee.
00:10:09.660The Tennessee Star has reported, citing a search warrant, that Vanderbilt had prescribed SSRIs to the shooter.
00:10:14.540But we don't know if the shooter was actively taking those medications, because neither the police nor Vanderbilt will tell us.
00:10:20.960And therefore, it wouldn't show up in any studies that purport to show how many mass shooters were on SSRIs.
00:10:25.980But this is the norm, you know, when it comes to these academic papers on SSRIs.
00:10:31.480And as I previously discussed, there's another way that these studies hide the number of mass shooters who are on SSRIs.
00:10:38.620Basically, they include inner-city violence in their tally of mass shootings.
00:10:43.500So if a bunch of gang members in the south side of Chicago shoot up a birthday party or something, or shoot up some other gang members on a street corner, that gets added to the tally of mass shootings.
00:10:54.240And because those kinds of shootings happen every day in places like Chicago, for reasons that have nothing to do with SSRIs, like turf disputes and gang wars and drugs and everything else,
00:11:02.880the authors of these studies can make it seem like SSRIs don't cause mass shootings.
00:11:08.880But they're really just obfuscating the central question by flooding the data set with unrelated information.
00:11:15.360The core question, which is whether SSRIs cause otherwise law-abiding young students to shoot their classmates, remains unresolved in medical literature.
00:11:25.920Because it's no surprise, and it's no secret, that young, angry males who grow up in the hood with no father figures and get involved in gangs and drug dealing by the age of 12 would then turn to violence.
00:12:02.360And why is it that so often these kids are on psychiatric medication?
00:12:08.100There are definitely reasons to think that SSRIs could play a role in this kind of violence.
00:12:12.300For one thing, you can look at the warning label on the drugs.
00:12:16.580You can pick up the bottle, look at it.
00:12:19.180The drug companies themselves tell us that there could be a link that says it on the bottle that these drugs can actually increase the risk of suicide and violent behavior in some cases.
00:12:33.440The drug makers are telling us outright that these drugs can put violent thoughts into your head.
00:12:40.020Okay, they can make you think violent things that you wouldn't have thought otherwise.
00:12:46.100They can make you want to lash out violently against yourself or other people.
00:12:50.820The pharmaceutical companies are telling us that directly.
00:12:53.820And yet, when that thing happens, they will insist that the drug that they said can cause it to happen must not have caused it to happen.
00:13:02.480It's a very interesting thing that they can give all these drugs to kids that say on the bottle this can cause violent thoughts, thoughts of suicide.
00:13:12.360And then that exact thing happens with a kid who's taking the drug, and yet we're never allowed to draw any link.
00:13:25.220Shouldn't we ask the pharmaceutical companies, well, you're the ones who put this stuff on the bottle.
00:13:29.500Where are you getting that information?
00:13:33.020You must be getting it from somewhere.
00:13:34.500Or you can also look at these studies that show that SSRIs can increase the risk of violence in people who aren't depressed at all.
00:13:42.620A few years ago, for example, researchers in Denmark reviewed experiments going back to the 1960s.
00:13:47.740And they found that when healthy volunteers, meaning people with no mental health issues, were given antidepressants,
00:13:53.280the drugs doubled their risk of suicidality and violence.
00:14:48.820I know people, including members of my family, who've had a much worse time getting off of SSRIs than they did, than people have getting off of heroin.
00:14:58.580And the withdrawal period is, I mean, and it's written on the label.
00:15:04.400I have some experience with this myself, Mr. Kennedy.
00:15:10.160When I was a young woman and I was struggling with depression, thankfully, I had the resources to help me get through it, including a new generation of SSRI uptake inhibitors, which helped to clear my mind, get me back on track to being a mom and a wife and a productive, happy person.
00:15:29.000And I'm really grateful for that therapy.
00:16:24.680Because if she is, she shouldn't be in office.
00:16:26.440You know, if you need psychiatric medication, you're not qualified to teach elementary school students or operate heavy machinery, for that matter.
00:16:34.560You simply cannot claim that you're competent to govern if you need to regularly take psychoactive substances.
00:16:42.340So am I saying that every lawmaker on antidepressants should be removed from office?
00:16:59.580Now, more importantly, RFK is obviously right about SSRIs.
00:17:05.680When the peer-reviewed journal Molecular Psychiatry, one of the most prominent journals in the field, admits that depression isn't actually caused by a serotonin imbalance, which is what happened in 2022,
00:17:15.280it's obviously worth taking a close look at a class of antidepressants that's entitled Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.
00:17:21.140If a comprehensive review finds that we were wrong about these drugs for decades, then maybe we need some more information and studies before we prescribe them to millions of people, including children.
00:17:31.900But, of course, this is a pattern in the healthcare industry.
00:17:34.100Drugs are approved all the time when they don't actually work, at least not in the way that we understand or we're told.
00:17:41.180As RFK Jr. said yesterday, it was a similar story for Alzheimer's drugs.
00:17:44.960Some of these drugs received a lot of funding and fast-track approvals, only that turned out to be completely useless.
00:17:51.140In one case, the data supporting these drugs was actually faked. Watch.
00:17:55.820The gold standard means real scientific research with replication of studies, which very rarely happens now at NIH.
00:18:07.500We should be giving at least 20% of the NIH budgets to replication.
00:18:12.520We should make sure that all the science is published with the raw data.
00:18:17.460We should make sure that the peer reviews are also published.
00:18:21.140We, and, you know, and I'll give you a quick example.
00:18:25.24020 years ago, NIH scientists did a study on amyloid, on Alzheimer's, which they said it was caused by amyloid plaque.
00:18:36.400After that, NIH shut down studies of any other hypothesis.
00:18:41.44020 years later, we now know that those studies were fraudulent.
00:18:44.760NIH has funded 800 studies on a fraudulent hypothesis, and we've lost 20 years in figuring out how to cure for Alzheimer's.
00:18:55.000And that's just one example I could give you hundreds.
00:19:03.720Now, at this point, you can probably tell that this hearing did not go very well for Democrats.
00:19:09.520Later on, they tried to attack him for pointing out that Lyme disease has some very conspicuous origins.
00:19:14.820Apparently, we're supposed to think post-COVID that it's some sort of outlandish conspiracy theory to believe that Lyme disease could possibly have anything to do with government labs injecting ticks with various exotic diseases.
00:19:24.200And then there was this moment where one Democrat tried to make the point that RFK Jr. doesn't believe that germs can cause disease.
00:19:31.680Then he refuted what she was saying, so she just read it into the record anyway.
00:21:16.240And yet your organization is making money selling a child's product to parents for $26,
00:21:24.660which casts fundamental doubt on the usefulness of vaccines.
00:21:29.420Can you tell us now that you will, now that you are pro-vaccine, that you're going to have your organization take these products off the market?
00:21:39.700Senator, I have no power over that organization.
00:22:23.060They barely even mentioned, of course, gender ideology or how RFK Jr. plans to end castration of children in this country.
00:22:29.880They weren't remotely interested in his call for more transparent and accurate data and modern medicine.
00:22:34.220Instead, one by one, Democrats ran interference for big pharma.
00:22:37.660They talked about anti-vax onesies and demanded that RFK stop bullying Merck and the terrible oppressed pharmaceutical companies.
00:22:45.220Because, you know, Democrats, like Bernie Sanders, like Elizabeth Warren, like to pretend that they stand against corporate greed and so on.
00:22:54.940But you simply cannot pretend to be an avenger for the working class standing against corrupt billionaires if you will also defend the pharmaceutical industry to your dying breath.
00:23:05.480There is no greater example of corporate greed in this country right now than what we have seen from big pharma.
00:23:13.480This is an industry that we know for an absolute fact has pushed literal poison on people by the millions and done it all for no reason other than pure profit.
00:23:23.400This is an industry that supplies actual castration drugs to 13-year-olds, an industry that got millions of Americans hooked on antidepressants on false pretenses based on a belief in a chemical imbalance that doesn't exist.
00:23:37.500And there are dozens of other examples just like this.
00:23:39.680And they are all things that Democrats don't want us to talk about and, in fact, have attempted to forcibly prevent us from talking about.
00:23:46.600So, whatever reservations conservatives have about RFK Jr., it's very clear that he needs to be confirmed.
00:23:52.940We have a real opportunity to install someone who is skeptical of the junk science that we've been relentlessly fed for decades on everything from SSRIs to Alzheimer's to gender ideology.
00:24:02.940And after yesterday's debacle of a confirmation hearing, it's clear we need to take this opportunity now while we still have it.
00:24:16.600So, the big and horrifically awful story of the day, of course, is the plane crash in D.C.
00:24:22.620An American Airlines regional jet collided with a Blackhawk helicopter as it was making its final approach into Reagan National Airport.
00:24:28.700It was, from what I understand, about 400 feet above the ground at the time that the collision happened, which means that those passengers were, I don't know, less than a minute, 30 seconds probably, from being safely on the ground.
00:24:44.160And instead, per the latest reports that I've seen, everybody on board the plane and everyone on the helicopter are all presumed dead.
00:24:51.66067 people in total who have died in the first major airline disaster in the U.S. since 2009 and the biggest one now since, I believe, 2001.
00:25:05.06061. Now, as I'm recording this, we still don't know exactly how this happened.
00:25:11.680I mean, we know that it was a collision midair, but in terms of, like, how did that collision happen, why did it happen, there's still a lot that's not known.
00:25:24.320You know, I don't want to get into a lot of speculation, especially as you're listening to this.
00:25:31.940It's likely that as you're listening to it, we know more than we did at the time that I'm saying these words.
00:25:39.000So that, you know, there's only so much that can be speculated.
00:25:43.900I will say that when the video first started circulating, you know, there's the, I guess it's the webcam video from the airport where you can see in the distance, you've probably seen the collision.
00:25:57.720You could see the explosion in midair.
00:26:00.500And when it first started circulating, it's obviously very startling and terrible.
00:26:04.900And you get the feeling when you watch it that it looks intentional.
00:26:08.460It looks like the helicopter just made a beeline right for the plane.
00:26:11.840And a lot of people had that initial reaction.
00:26:57.380In order to avoid this happening, you would need all three parties to communicate correctly and clearly and then execute.
00:27:06.460So it seems, again, just the most likely scenario that one party, probably at least two, maybe all three, failed in communication or execution or both.
00:27:19.560And, you know, the thing is, I can speak for myself as a passenger.
00:27:27.640I always get the most nervous when the plane is at altitude and it's 35,000 feet, you know, and you hit turbulence.
00:27:51.860It's when you're all the way up on the scale, you're above the clouds and the plane starts shaking and rocking.
00:27:58.940And that's, for me, it's quite unsettling.
00:28:02.680But the truth is that there's nowhere safer on Earth than a plane at 35,000 feet.
00:28:11.100I mean, almost nothing can take down a plane at that altitude.
00:28:14.940If you talk to pilots, I mean, they'll, you would need either an absolutely catastrophic, almost unheard of mechanical failure, or you would need like a missile.
00:28:25.180And outside of those two things, the plane is going to stay in the sky.
00:28:29.100Turbulence almost certainly won't do it.
00:28:31.880And that's why there's, it's, it's, there has very, very, very, very, very rarely been plane crashes where the plane plunges out of the sky from thousands of feet.
00:28:42.880But it almost never happens in the whole history of aviation.
00:28:49.020So most of the bad stuff can happen and does happen.
00:28:52.580I mean, if it is going to happen, if the bad stuff is going to happen, it's usually going to be on takeoff and landing.
00:28:58.960And that, and that, you know, kind of the cruel thing here is that's exactly when passengers feel the safest, probably.
00:29:09.520I mean, I know, like in the, in the final 30 seconds of, um, of a flight, you know, when you can look down, you can see the ground.
00:29:18.340It looks like you'd, you know, it looks, it's, uh, you're only a few hundred feet up.
00:29:21.960That's, I'll start, I'll text my wife at that point before we've even landed to say, uh, you know, we, we landed safely.
00:29:27.720Cause it feels like, it feels like, well, we're here, you know, what could possibly go wrong?
00:29:32.660But the truth is, and again, if you talk to pilots about this, I think they would, they would affirm this, that that that's the danger zone.
00:29:40.660I mean, that's, that's actually the, the most dangerous part of the flight.
00:29:45.040And because, um, there's a lot more going on, there are a lot more balls in the air that have to be, have to be juggled.
00:29:53.060And if something goes wrong, there's, there's no room for error.
00:29:56.260There's no, it's, it's, there's very little that a pilot can do in those final seconds and minutes to adjust, to avoid something catastrophic.
00:30:05.500Whereas if you're 35,000 feet in the, in the sky, you know, you have comparatively a long time to figure it out.
00:30:13.280If something bad happens, but when you're landing, it's, uh, there's just not a lot of time.
00:30:18.540And, um, so a lot can go wrong, uh, when a big jet is landing at a busy airport and a lot would have to go wrong for this kind of tragedy to occur.
00:30:28.340Um, as you know, if you've been listening to the show for a while, that, uh, I, I have been worried about this exact thing.
00:30:40.320You know, this is something that we've talked about on the show, um, several times over the last many months, even going back a year or more or more.
00:30:50.240I think that, um, that the worry that I've expressed is that even though there has not been a major airline disaster in a very long time, or there hadn't been, that, uh, I was worried that we'd have one very soon.
00:31:07.580And, and, and that's, it's, it's, it's only, it's not like some kind of prophecy or anything like that.
00:31:12.760It's just because there'd been a lot of close calls that in the close calls don't get report.
00:31:18.620I mean, they're reported, but they don't get a lot of attention.
00:31:21.560Uh, I mean, there, there have been things that have happened that if things had just gone a little bit differently, hundreds of people would have died, but they didn't die.
00:31:29.960And because they didn't die, it doesn't get major head, doesn't make the headlines.
00:31:33.120Um, but there have just been a lot of close calls.
00:31:36.740And so it doesn't take, you know, it's anyone who notices that and takes note of all the close calls would say the same thing.
00:31:44.640Like, man, we're, we've come really close and it just stands to reason statistically that when you're coming that close that often of eventually, uh, you know, you're, you're going to come out on the wrong side of that.
00:31:59.000And, and this is something that pilots, I've heard this also from pilots.
00:32:04.940I mean, the pilots are the ones who obviously know.
00:32:08.100And, um, many pilots have been talking about this, that we've been flying way too close to the sun with this kind of stuff for too long.
00:32:16.320Um, and, uh, and now, and now here we are.
00:32:20.580Um, so, you know, we'll be able to say more very soon, I think it'll be clear what, what happened sooner rather than later, maybe who's at fault, where the system broke down.
00:32:35.600Um, I think the American Airlines CEO put out a statement where he not so subtly put the blame on the military for it, which is not surprising.
00:32:47.180You're going to, you're going to have the finger pointing that goes, goes on back and forth, but, um, it's, it's pretty clear that there was obviously some, some major mistakes here.
00:32:58.980And, and, uh, I would be surprised if the mistakes were all on one party's end of it.
00:33:06.320So for now, I'm, you know, just feel terrible about this and for the families.
00:33:10.140And, and, um, I worry about this, of course, every time you get on a plane, you worry about this.
00:33:16.340But even more, like if my wife flies somewhere, this is, you're just, you just, you dread this exact scenario.
00:33:21.800And, uh, um, it's horrible to think that it actually happened.
00:33:26.500And now there are people who are experienced, experiencing in real life, you know, not just in their, in their worst nightmares.
00:33:31.740Uh, there was a, there was a, a clip on, on social media last night.
00:33:38.840I'm not going to play it, but, and I don't even remember what media outlet posted it,
00:33:45.560but it was a clip apparently of a husband who was at the airport, whose wife was on the plane.
00:33:53.440And he was, and at this point it was, it wasn't known if everybody had, had died or not.
00:33:59.340And there was, there had even been reports that maybe some people had been recovered.
00:34:03.980And so he's waiting there, obviously desperately hopeful that his wife was one of the people recovered.
00:34:09.620It turns out that, you know, tragically nobody, uh, nobody was, no one survived.
00:34:15.400But anyway, the reporter comes up and starts talking to this guy, you know, interviewing him.
00:34:21.440And, and, uh, he says that he was texting with his wife.
00:38:10.200Then you have the countries that do depend on it, whose very existence depend on it.
00:38:16.840And them also, we shouldn't be, for that reason, we shouldn't be giving them aid.
00:38:20.920So, in either way, we're, we're left with, I don't think we should be giving foreign aid.
00:38:24.820So, anyway, a clip went viral yesterday of a politician in Kenya, a former president, making essentially this exact point, or at least a very similar one.
00:41:21.180I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
00:41:51.580So he's going to send, uh, the worst criminal aliens to, uh, Guantanamo Bay.
00:41:57.840Now, I mean, shipping illegal alien criminals to Gitmo is the, is the kind of thing that you would hear me suggest on this show half jokingly,
00:42:10.340because I know that it would never happen and no American president would ever do that, even though they should.
01:00:16.060Because that would just be too complimentary towards his own country.
01:00:19.080And as a Hollywood liberal, the thought of being complimentary towards his own country sickens him.
01:00:24.020So how did Disney end up here yet again with yet another actor playing the title role for a major IP, despite hating that IP and everything it stands for?
01:00:34.180Well, either Disney exclusively hires actors who are completely incapable of behaving like high-functioning, intelligent adults when they're doing their PR tours for their films and who are so full of bitterness and hatred for their audience that they can't even pretend to respect them.
01:00:47.920Or something else is going on here, meaning there's some kind of deliberate, nefarious conspiracy in which Disney wants to sabotage its own products.
01:00:57.200And at this point, whichever theory you're partial to, it really doesn't matter.
01:01:00.620Either way, there's really no reason for anyone to go see Captain America now, as it is a film that is not in any way about America, or about captains, I guess, or anything like that.
01:01:14.280Instead, it's apparently about dragons and sticks.
01:01:17.600And that is why the new Captain America film and its openly anti-American lead actor are today canceled.