March 13, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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| well as i talked about dave weldon who is a former congressman and physician has been nominated for the position of cdc and the reason i bring this up again is because today is the day that we find out if he's going to make a faustian bargain with the devil | |
| also known as Senator Cassidy, who is the Republican chair of this committee that is going to be analyzing him. | |
| And so that's going to be happening today. | |
| He's expected to face questions from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which is chaired by Cassidy, the guy who got RFK Jr. to bow before him. | |
| But that'll be today. | |
| Weldon served 14 years in the House until 2019, largely staying out of the public spotlight during this time. | |
| However, he attracted the attention of anti-vaccine groups due to his criticism of the CDC. And questions about vaccine safety. | |
| So, from his history, he looks good. | |
| We'll have to see what happens. | |
| We'll have to see what happens, first of all, today. | |
| What he pledges to do. | |
| And we'll have to see what happens if he makes it. | |
| He'll have to get past Cassidy. | |
| He'll probably have to prostrate himself before this guy. | |
| So, anyway, Walden has promoted. | |
| Says NBC, the false claim linking vaccines to autism. | |
| Yeah, he was featured in the documentary Vax, as I said yesterday. | |
| A matter that the CDC will re-examine under Kennedy, despite decades of research failing to find evidence of a link, said NBC. Well, what does cause autism? | |
| Why has it exploded? | |
| Does NBC care? | |
| No. | |
| And these guys really get angry. | |
| If you say we're going to look, they don't want anything to stop it. | |
| Why is that? | |
| He introduced a bill in 2007 to transfer responsibility for vaccine safety from the public health agency to an independent agency within HHS. The idea is not entirely opposed by some vaccine experts. | |
| But would significantly reduce the CDC's role. | |
| The bill, however, never made it past committee. | |
| So the question is, will he make it past committee? | |
| According to an account in the 2004 book, Evidence of Harm. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Wow. | |
| Deb G. Kennedy says, David, the White House just withdrew him as a nominee. | |
| Well, I guess he wasn't ready to sign the deal with the devil. | |
| That tells you a lot about the Trump administration, doesn't it? | |
| And I'll just finish with this paragraph here. | |
| Weldon actively intervened to help anti-vaccine researchers Dr. Mark Gere and his son David access the Vaccine Safety Data Link. | |
| Oh, they're upset about that. | |
| That is a CDC database containing patient health records. | |
| Now, here's what NBC says about that. | |
| Why is that? | |
| Well, because of concerns over privacy. | |
| Well, you don't have to release people's names. | |
| You're looking at... | |
| Massive numbers. | |
| You know, you're not, well, you know, Sally's got psoriasis or whatever. | |
| You know, you're looking at how many cases of psoriasis are out there. | |
| They're not going to dox people for diseases on social media. | |
| But they said, no, this has to be kept away from the public because of concerns over privacy, because of manpower. | |
| Oh, you don't have enough people to, well, that's not a problem with this. | |
| It shouldn't be a problem because he was just giving people who had the manpower. | |
| Access to the data to take a look at it. | |
| Why are you trying to hide data from us? | |
| Well, here's the reason. | |
| And because they're worried about misrepresentation of data. | |
| Well, that's what open debate and science is supposed to be about, isn't it? | |
| So I think that's very interesting that Dave Weldon, they withdrew his nomination at the last minute. | |
| Wow. | |
| Wow. | |
| It was to happen today. | |
| And I guess they got with him, you know, because they have the people. | |
| They're there with the Trump administration, and you had Dr. Wakefield push for Dave Weldon to be in the first Trump administration, and he wasn't. | |
| They refused to have him then. | |
| And so I guess as they were wargaming this, maybe he said, I'm not going to bow to this stuff. | |
| So the CDC has now, you know, they've got a lot of stuff with vaccines. | |
| They have a lot of influence over vaccine recommendations, says NBC, through its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. | |
| And this is a panel that is made up of experts. | |
| Experts who have conflicts of interest. | |
| This is pediatricians, epidemiologists, and public health experts. | |
| And you know these people are loaded with conflicts of interest. | |
| And that's one good thing that RFK Jr. has done, is he said, we're going to list the interests of people who are on that committee to see if they've got conflict of interest. | |
| And so, since Kennedy has been there, they have shut down two major Vaccine Advisory Committee meetings. | |
| I'm glad he did that. | |
| Again, I don't trust Kennedy. | |
| But this is good. | |
| And, you know, we could always hope that there would have been something else there. | |
| But anyway, so they shut down two of these, the two committee meetings that were scheduled. | |
| They shut them down. | |
| And then they put up information about, and this is the way NBC puts it, what it describes as conflicts of interest. | |
| What it describes. | |
| Conflict of interest is pretty clear, isn't it? | |
| You own stock in these companies that you are setting in judgment of. | |
| You're going to make money if you green light this stuff. | |
| So they said they're worried about the implications of having a CDC director who may not fully support vaccines and thinks that there's a link between vaccines and autism. | |
| And evidently... | |
| The Trump administration is as well, because they just pulled his nomination, as a listener said. | |
| The science is very clear, and has been for decades, on vaccines and autism. | |
| To look into that again is a big waste of resources. | |
| But you don't have, if you've looked at it, and you've investigated it, and your science is clear, your science hasn't produced any answers. | |
| And you don't care? | |
| You don't care about the explosion of autism? | |
| Just like Senator Cassidy. | |
| That's why I compare him to the devil. | |
| He doesn't care about this. | |
| You're not going to do any more research into this, are you? | |
| What are you afraid of, Cassidy? | |
| What are these other people afraid of? | |
| They're afraid because they know. | |
| They know there is a link between the vaccines and autism. | |
| Not necessarily between one particular vaccine, but to the groups. | |
| I mean, it wasn't that long ago. | |
| Remember, we had that child custody case where there was... | |
| Three children, and the mom and dad had agreed when they moved to another state, I think it was Texas or something, we're not going to vaccinate the kids, and both of them were in agreement. | |
| And then there was a divorce, and the judge found out that they were not vaccinated. | |
| Actually, her lawyer knew that the judge was a big vaccine advocate, and said, you know, these kids haven't been vaccinated. | |
| And the judge was, what? | |
| That's child abuse, to not vaccinate your children. | |
| And he goes, I'll tell you what, whichever one of you parents will promise that you're going, you will have the kids vaccinated, you walk out of here today with custody of them. | |
| And so the lawyer says, she will. | |
| She got custody of them. | |
| She takes them to the pediatrician. | |
| The pediatrician with the three kids, the girl already had some known allergies. | |
| And so the pediatrician... | |
| Did not give all of the, like, 20 shots or whatever to catch up to her. | |
| Okay? | |
| So we're going to space yours out. | |
| But for the two boys, she gave them all the 18 vaccines or whatever that they were supposed to get caught up. | |
| All at once. | |
| Both of them went straight into intensive care. | |
| One of them got out after about four or five days. | |
| The other one was in for an extended period of time. | |
| And the one that was in for an extended period of time now has such severe autism. | |
| That he can't do anything. | |
| He's basically turned into a lifetime of dependency because of that. | |
| So, Cassidy, you want to take a look at that? | |
| Explain that to us? | |
| Tell us why we shouldn't look at that? | |
| He doesn't care. | |
| What a heartless, cold, sold-out, sold-to-the-devil person, people like Cassidy and Peter Hotetz and all the rest of these creeps that are out there. | |
| They don't care what is happening to people. | |
| And they are adamant that you must not look at any of this stuff. | |
| And so I guess Dave Walden was going to do it. | |
| So the Trump administration got rid of him. | |
| Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky. | |
| I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years. | |
| You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better. | |
| And I could... | |
| If only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue. | |
| But he told me to get lost. | |
| Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com. | |
| And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred. | |
| Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful. | |
| I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events. |
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