Katie Miller Interviews RFK, Jr.
Katie Miller's interview of RFK, Jr. Well worthwhile. At minute 42 he reveals that Democrats secretly told him they agree with him on food safety.
Vaccines Arrived Only After the Massive Drop in Many Diseases
This chart should be mandatory viewing for anyone wanting to debate whether any vaccines should be mandatory.
Roman Bystrianyk, Coauthor of Dissolving Illusions alongside Suzanne Humphries, MD:
The common belief that the decline in infectious disease deaths is due to modern medicine, like antibiotics and vaccines, is incorrect. The vast majority of the decline, particularly in the early 19th and 20th centuries, preceded these medical ideas.[“Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: Trends in the Health of Americans During the 20th Century,” Pediatrics, December 2000, pp. 1307-1317.]Three key developments drove the earlier progress:
1. The rise of robust public health infrastructure, including engineered sanitation and sewer systems, protected municipal water supplies with filtration and chlorination, systematic garbage collection, early measures to control water and industrial air pollution, food safety regulations (e.g., meat inspection), and vector control (e.g., mosquito reduction).
2. Profound improvements in personal and socioeconomic well-being, such as vastly improved nutrition and increased dietary diversity, rising wages, less crowded housing with better ventilation (which increased exposure to sunlight and thus vitamin D production), the enactment of protective child and adult labor laws, public education, and greater public personal hygiene.
3. The abandonment of harmful medical practices, including treatments with mercury, arsenic, and strychnine, bloodletting and purging, and the “hot regimen,” cleared the way for more supportive care. Data strongly support the pivotal role of public health infrastructure. Research indicates that nearly 90% of the decline in infectious disease mortality among American children occurred between 1900 and 1940, a period before the widespread availability of antibiotics and most vaccines. A parallel, even steeper decline—over 98%—was observed in England and Wales, underscoring that this was a widespread phenomenon driven by societal factors rather than specific medical interventions (and in fact far fewer medical interventions).
...nearly 90% of the decline in infectious disease mortality among US children occurred [from 1900] before 1940, when few antibiotics or vaccines were available.
The Problem with Experts
Jordan Peterson explaining Hayek’s “knowledge problem” argument. Many experts lack humility and willingness to adapt based on new facts, especially when they are economically and bureaucratically entrenched. The crowd is often wise and many experts fail to keep tuned in:
The proposition that central planning will work is the proposition that you can substitute one expert mind for a million distributed expert minds.That’s obviously not the case, because each person is going to have knowledge that pertains to their locality that isn’t accessible to everyone.
“So it’s much better to let everyone make the decisions and sum them.




