Andrew Wakefield won't go away

RBG is the latest victim in Trump's derangement + Christian Nationalism 101

Andrew Wakefield’s legacy

Billionaire businessman, Howard Lutnick, is serving as the Trump Transition Co-chair. Earlier this week, he repeated Andrew Wakefield’s falsified data that vaccines cause autism.

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This is highly concerning, especially since Lutnick admits he learned about this from a two-and-a-half hour meeting with Robert F Kennedy, Jr. This resulted in a number of false claims by Lutnick during a CNN interview.

Lutnick repeated several unsubstantiated claims in the interview with Collins, including that the government is withholding data about vaccines, that vaccines are linked to a rise in autism diagnoses and that scientists were paid to say that Kennedy is lying about vaccines.

Lutnick went on to admit that looking further into vaccine data—which absolutely exists, despite his claims—would be “fun.”

“I think it’d be pretty cool to give me the data we’ll see what he comes up with,” Lutnick said. “It’s pretty fun.”

Once again we’re witnessing the death of expertise in front of our eyes: the head of a global financial services company conspiring with a lawyer who runs an anti-vax nonprofit to cosplay vaccinologist, epidemiologist, and statistician by misreading clinical data.

You might sometimes hear someone say “science is a belief, just like anything else.” And these are the man who will say it, because such an errant thought helps them mold data to fit whatever narrative they want.

Which is not how science works.

Leave her alone

There’s no bottom to the Trump campaign—this we know. But it takes a special type of delusion to positively link Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Donald Trump.

Yet that’s exactly what the “RBG PAC” is doing. The PAC, which just appeared last week, dropped $20M on ads claiming Trump will oppose a federal abortion ban. Despite constantly taking credit for overturning Roe v Wade, this deranged appeal to suburban women gets even more absurd:

The RBG PAC’s website features two large pictures of Mr. Trump and Ms. Ginsburg and the words: “Great Minds Think Alike.”

I was going to share the photo here but, after viewing the site, it’s simply too depressing. I’m not sure who would fall for such blatant propaganda, though as I started: there is no bottom.