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Texas children poisoned after RFK Jr touts vitamin A as measles treatment (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Summary

Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the supplement as a measles treatment.

At Covenant Children’s hospital in Lubbock, patients with measles showed abnormal liver function due to excessive vitamin A intake.

Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, claimed vitamin A dramatically reduces measles mortality. Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine.

The U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, with nearly 500 cases across 21 states and two confirmed deaths.

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[–] sfu@lemm.ee -3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Well, when the gov, and medical companies have been known in the past to lie about medical treatments, then every person should have the right to decide for themselves if they want to take a drug / vaccine / treatment / etc. I personally would rather trust my own judgement. If the gov, or a doctor, or drug company really thinks I need to take something, then they need to do their job better to convince me it's safe.

[–] Andonyx@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

This statement is the poster child for why letting individuals use their own judgement on scientific data is such a crap idea.

*Changed medical matters to scientific data.

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

You mean why its a good idea!

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Drug companies shouldn't be in the equation of telling you what is best for you and your family medically.

That should be left up to doctors.

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Yes, and not the insurance companies.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's not up to the experts to bend over backwards to convince you that a medication is safe and beneficial to yourself and to society. If they've convinced most of the population, but haven't convinced you, then maybe you're the problem. It's your job to learn to distinguish between trained experts and quacks with an agenda, and listen to the experts, not the quacks.

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If a scientist wanted to take a syringe with purple fluid in it, and inject it in your arm, and he said "trust me, its good for you", would you just take it without asking what it is?

If there were other people around you who took it without asking questions, based on the logic in your comment, it doesn't even matter what the purple fluid is, you should just take because everyone else is, and a scientist said to do so.