"... was in the process of being nominated and confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.... My mother wrote a letter to the Senate, to try and stop his confirmation; my brother had been speaking out against his lies for months. I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government. Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky.... As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers... I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research... slashed billions in funding.... Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled.... I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission...."
Writes Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, in "A Battle with My Blood/When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family," published in The New Yorker today, the anniversary of the assassination of her grandfather, President Kennedy.
Schlossberg, who has 2 very young children, tells us she has a terminal diagnosis. This is terribly sad.
Meanwhile, in other RFK Jr. news: "Ryan Lizza reveals raunchy ‘poem’ RFK Jr. allegedly sent his then-fiancée as he tells all on Olivia Nuzzi" (NY Post). Excerpt: "[Lizza] wrote that floozy Nuzzi 'loved crazy people' — which should have been a 'red flag' for him after she divulged that RFK was nuts — and that she developed a 'near-total obsession' with the then-presidential candidate which 'seeped into every corner of her life.' That prefixation [sic] manifested in Nuzzi reading two books simultaneously that Lizza admits should have also sounded alarms — 'The Art of Seduction' by Robert Greene and 'Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed.'"
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What does that say about ryan
One feels for tatiana then again she is so ready to bad mouth her kin like her loony brother
He was nominated because he didn't wear the wicked brand of professionals, experts, and other voices of ill repute and Democratic consensus.
He has done a lot of research into fauci the capstone of medical malfeasance
The Kennedys are worshipped by the looney Left as American Royalty ... the clan sticks together and keeps offering unqualified clan members for public service -- but rejects those who leave the Compound and work to destroy them. Trash.
I would appreciate a list of the grants and clinical trials that were cancelled.
So her "affair" with RFK was entirely transactional.
Are their names pronounced like "pizza?"
Jackie had leukemia in her 60s. Her nephew Anthony Radziwill had sarcoma in his 30s.
I wondered if I'd get through the day without seeing a mention of the JFK assassination. No doubt PBS will have something on about them.
Althouse wrote: " Meanwhile, in other RFK Jr. news"
Alternate:
'You know… this is really my fault for having the internet. That’s on me.
But since I had to see it, here you go...'
I agree with Ms. Schlossberg -- HHS should have a doctor in charge. (If not a doctor, a bio-engineer.)
So it seems to be a genetic disorder
Like becerra the last one
Much as the latest study proved how disastrous lockdowns were to the uk (5 years later)
She apparently has a year to live. I'd like to think that I wouldn't spend that time taking shots at people who tick me off, but if that's how she wants to go out, that's up to her.
FWIW, I don't think RFKJr belongs in that job either, but for me, it's less persuasive to hear criticism coming from his extended family, not more. Coming from another Kennedy, it inevitably sounds like they're airing some old personal conflict.
So the millions killed by Dr Fauci never shook her faith?
"HHS should have a doctor in charge."
There is one all pardoned and ready to go!
If there were ever two really awful people who absolutely deserved each other, those two people would be Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi.
(And if I add the word "pizza" to this comment, I'll use up my entire day's ration of Z's)
Well she was also keith olbermann (also not at the same time)
Was there ever a better match made in Heaven than Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza- a ball of slime squared. And to think that Lizza had the opportunity to take the high road and yet sank again into the mire.
I think that people who think the government is going to cure cancer are really stupid people.
The link below goes to the HHS org chart, which I just googled up out of curiosity. I can see why people would want doctors and/or researchers involved at high levels, but there are an awful lot of areas where being a doctor or researcher would be of little if any value.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/orgchart/index.html
I'm pretty agnostic about RFKJr. I applaud his focus on actual health without endorsing any particular positions he personally holds, and I appreciate his wanting - I think it's appropriate to say "striving" - to bring greater transparency to health research. Everyone knows there's a replication crisis in not just social sciences but even in medical research and hard sciences; should we not care about that?
If you think the current system, where democrats in the NIH give money to democrats at college universities and drug companies will cure cancer, you are a really stupid person.
I don't think Obama's or Biden's HHS heads were doctors either- Becerra certainly wasn't and I don't remember Sibelius or Matthews-Burwell being doctors or scientists of any kind other than political.
I think nixon declared the war on cancer 50 some years ago did they give him any plaudits
Cruella (sibelius) god no but she was skilled at stitching puppies
Just a terrible person
I think RFK Jr.s instincts about health are correct- stop depending so much on finding pharmaceutical/surgical interventions for ailments and spend more money and effort into getting people to live healthier lives. Eating poorly and a sedentary lifestyle are a major component, maybe the biggest component, for all the ailments that kill us younger than should happen.
My previous comment is informed by my own experience, in my youth, of having one of the best bosses I ever had, a truly gifted administrator and leader, harassed and undercut constantly by several of my peers because he didn't come from an environmental background. (He was a retired Coast Guard captain.)
One woman was particularly egregious; she'd viewed his predecessor in the job as a father figure (she had a truly tragic life story, and the previous guy was a lovely fatherly man) and so hated this great boss Richard whom she saw as having replaced Joe, touting Richard's lack of proper background, although Joe hadn't even gone to college and tried because he was in his 70s and wanted to stop working.
Sigh. *Retired
I asked my husband if he knew what felching was because I didn't want to look it up. He didn't so he looked it up and wouldn't tell me what it was, only that the NIH had a health advisory out on it as a clue about how dirty it was.
I think that people who think the government is going to cure cancer are really stupid people.
Seconded, though I hesitate over the name-calling.
You hate to see bad blood in the family.
OK, thought experiment: We're a NYC pizzeria coming up with a new product, the LizzaNuzzi: Describe the menu choice !
If a cure for cancer doesn't come out of NIH-funded, investigator-initiated research proposals, where is it going to come from?
Damn it, Birches… I made the mistake of looking it up. Good God Almighty!
You should thank your husband. He did you a solid on that one.
This Schlongberg vendetta against RFK Jr. is getting tiresome.
I thought the shrivers were tedious enough
Her story is sad, very sad, and her writing is heartful. But - what is it about these Kennedy's, were they can't help themselves but pigpile on the apostate? She can't even write about her own impending doom without dragging RFK Jr. into it, as if it's his fault somehow. They are nothing if not completely consumed by politics, with half the country as their enablers. They inherit the legacy with full automatic vesting, yet none of the talent or ability, it would seem.
RFK Jr. is not a medical professional, but he's a lifelong consumer advocate with a track record of substantial success, and a considerable record of advocacy on the subject matter at hand. For those expressing outrage, where the hell were all of you when a trannie was the Surgeon General of the United States, telling the American population all about how normal it is, and convincing a fair percentage of it, thanks to the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Nuclear Energy, who was even worse, stealing luggage for the clothes?
RFK Jr. ain't perfect. Neither is Trump. They're a d*mn sight better than what preceded them. What has 'Junior done that is so wrong, so misguided, so irrevocably damaging to American health, I wonder?
Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled.... I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
So any actual information on whether RFK Jr. has actually limited funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering? And are those the only things she cares about?
If a cure for cancer doesn't come out of NIH-funded, investigator-initiated research proposals, where is it going to come from?
And who will believe it might work??
"So any actual information on whether RFK Jr. has actually limited funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering?"
Of course not.
I read (ok, skimmed) the article. It was devoid of actual information.
So like your typical Post piecethemn
It seems to run in the extended family, narciso.
I wonder how the press would treat her if she said her leukemia was connected to the Covid vaccine.
"OK, thought experiment: We're a NYC pizzeria coming up with a new product, the LizzaNuzzi: Describe the menu choice !"
An extra sourdough crust barely cooked topped with soy cheese and sausage and slices of durian.
I mean, does it occur to some of us that it's a little odd, two insider stories, one from a seamy-steamy tramp journalist, the other from a 'close family member with a terminal illness', one in a daily, the other in a monthly, both being published the same day? Two character torpedoes aimed at RFK Jr., from different directions, launched at the same time? My, what a coincidence! Why, what are the odds, one might ponder? Probably, the odds are not quite what you first imagine them to be.
"I wonder how the press would treat her if she said her leukemia was connected to the Covid vaccine."
Like a leper.
That seems nasty
Now this wouldnt matter unless she was taking pot shots at rfk
she removed all doubt the first time she volunteered for weiners campaign remember that
I forgot to put in this link https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10054610/
Note that this is an NIH study. And by the way I was diagnosed with a mild form of leukemia after taking the vaccine.
Im referring to olivia
C3po would calculate those odds at 1.456, 768 to one
Good grief, Yancey --VEGAN sausage!
RFK is nuts? Rachel Levine thinks he's a woman. I'll take the government officials who don't have a true mental illness.
"Note that this is an NIH study.l
Well, no, it's not. NIH funds PubMed, but that doesn't make the papers in it "NIH studies".
Good luck to you, Leora. I've been living with leukemia for 15 years (and counting!).
Jamie said: "I can see why people would want doctors and/or researchers involved at high levels, but there are an awful lot of areas where being a doctor or researcher would be of little if any value."
One problem with organizations like the FDA, etc., is that they tend to preferentially attract bad doctors. What normal person who good enough to be healing the sick would want to become a bureaucrat? Likewise, who would want to give up a successful research and teaching career to preside over meetings and write process documents?
We used to avoid this problem by having upper-level roles in administration filled by late-career people with major accomplishments who were ready for a break from long, stressful hours, and who also saw their role as supporting and guiding the next generation of doctors / professors.
But that model has been dying since the early 2000s. The bureaucracy has gotten more and more complicated, so that it's very difficult for a senior person to come into the system and get anything done before they're ready to retire. Unfortunately the kind of doctors / professors who go right into administration tend to be at best lesser and quite often failed doctors or professors. So bureaucracy and "process" replace initiative and innovation, with the results we see all around us: the first priority of every institution is to advance the careers of its managers; all other goals--including healing the sick, expanding human knowledge, or teaching the students--are subordinated.
Someone in the Trump administration must be finding ways to reduce costs for all the government health programs, including Obamacare, but we've heard very little from RFK. The massive premium increases claimed from the end of covid subsidies look suspicious to me.
He had an addiction problem he seems to have kicked it
(can that be said for the rest of the family) i discount the evul dwarfs diagnosis otherwise 'he got better' ala python
Now if you run into someone who 'throws herself at you' like a trebuchet, well i would say duck!
"That prefixation [sic] manifested in Nuzzi"
Ya know, I remember the last time I was prefixed on something... wasn't pretty
i don't mean to sound like i'm wishing anyone any ill will..
But that bitch can go straight to hell, along with ALL the Kennedys
I wanna know who solicited this article from Schlosberg? That person is a fucking creep. To take advantage of a woman in the grip of terror and bitterness is reprehensible. I would not be surprised if it was her mother Caroline. The daughter, who seems in thrall to the mother, gets a pass from me based on her overwhelming grief.
I subscribe to the WSJ, so read the article earlier when posted on X. Incredibly sad story for a young woman with young children. And then I got to the part where she simply couldn't help her Kennedyish self and go political. WTF?Does she think that because of her cousin, the ONE cure that will work for her (none have been truly successful yet) is the ONE that her cousin cancelled. So that she - with an incredibly rare type of leukemia - might live? Her diagnosis was during Biden era and I wonder how much back room lobbying was done for HER? A . . . Ken-ne-dy.
AI Answers: Approximately $60-70 billion is spent annually on cancer research in the US across public, private, and philanthropic sectors. The vast majority of this funding comes from the private sector.
Only three of the 13 HHS secretaries have been medical doctors. Donna Shalala, who headed HHS, was a political scientist. It's a political position like the other cabinet posts, directing an overgrown bureaucracy.
“ HHS should have a doctor in charge.”
What she wants of course is a Dr. who properly hates Trump. No other would be satisfactory either.
I would rather have an accountant or a statistician in charge of hhs.
Terminally ill but still on team left and willing to use her illness to push "the party line". You can't despise libtards enough.
"I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers."
In just three short years, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives, achieved household recognition for use against SARS-CoV-2 , and became the subject of a Nobel Prize. Yet the field shows no signs of slowing down.
“The next big thing is cancer, for sure,” says Derrick Rossi, interim chief executive at the New York Stem Cell Foundation in New York City.
Cancer researchers have long sought a vaccine that could be used to train the immune system to fight tumors — and have long been disappointed when promising candidates failed in clinical trials. Cancers have been a tough nut to crack because malignant cells mutate rapidly, weakening therapeutics’ power. With mRNA, researchers can develop cancer vaccines that target dozens of antigens on tumor cells simultaneously.
This is the government website for government research on leukemia
https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=leukemia
It lists the following clinical trials, over 9,000, in their various stages:
Study Status
Looking for participants:
Not yet recruiting (298)
Recruiting (1,443)
No longer looking for participants:
Active, not recruiting (618)
Completed (4,165)
Terminated (1,146)
Other:
Enrolling by invitation (36)
Suspended (37)
Withdrawn (359)
Unknown (1,123)
There are over a thousand terminated stufies but this is a list of all the studies ever done so many studies were completed and others were terminated before February 2025. But the real point is the number of ongoing trials, 618. The Trump administration has not discontinued all leukemia studies.
Over the last 11 months, I've gained the impression, that ANY attempt to rein in corruption, eliminate wasteful spending, or redirect the efforts of the government to help Americans rather than foreigners, is literally being worse than Hitler.
At least according to the Left.
(Revised an reposted from 12:31 because my style sucked.)
Credentialed professionals have been running the Department of Health and Human Service for decades, from the inception of that agency, in fact. Yet our national health hasn't improved. In the aggregate, it has deteriorated. Our weight is up, and our life expectancy is down. We are more addicted and more afflicted, which wasn’t the in the HHS charter. One would think we take a lesson from those results, but the boomers thought very highly of themselves. Education, like health, is good. So the boomers followed the model pioneered by Heath and Human Services, and created another bureaucracy called the Department of Education, and appointed credentialed professionals to run it. Should we be surprised that we got dumber just like we got sicker? Orwell tried to warn us. Love and truth are good, therefore Oceania has a ministry for each, though MiniTrue is devoted to the manufacture of lies, and the Ministry of Love is where people are sent to be tortured.
Curious thing about progressivism, it seeks progress but achieves decay. Whereas conservatism seeks stability, but achieves progress. History is full of such ironies, so the wise should not wonder.
The big pharma company Bayer did a research study where they tried to replicate the studies published in the premier biology journal called Cell. The results were abysmal - the vast majority could not be replicated. The NIH has been throwing billions of dollars at research, and if most of the funded work can’t be replicated that isn’t a great ROI. The grant system is governed by study groups of experts in various subfields. Their granting decisions are often based on lower case politics and not the needs of the health care system - the study groups fund the grants of their friends and buddies with the expectation that those friends and buddies will fund their research when they sit in grant review groups. I think having the system run by an outsider like RFK is a good thing. Cutting grant funding can be a good thing if it results in better funding decisions because of limited resources. There is a lot of shitty research being funded. Hopefully cutting the money spigot will mean only the best ideas get approved.
Very sad. Now that video of Caroline reading her letter against RFKJr last year takes on a whole new dimension. Her heart was breaking.
josephbleau: " Dr. who properly hates Trump."
Wow, the BBC really hate him....CC, JSM
Could it be Covid vaccine turbo cancer?? I assume she took multiple boosters. Shame.
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