You CANNOT Make This Stuff Up -- Digby

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/19/you-cannot-make-this-stuff-up-4/

April 6, 2025:


The man in the far left of that picture is the subject of this story:

A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met him and praised him as an “extraordinary” healer.

Dr. Ben Edwards appeared in the video posted March 31 by the anti-vaccine group Kennedy once led, Children’s Health Defense. In it, Edwards appears wearing scrubs and talking with parents and children in a makeshift clinic he set up in Seminole, Texas, ground zero of the outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people and killed three, including two children.

Edwards is asked whether he had measles, and he responded, “Yes,” then said his infection started the day before the video was recorded.

“Yesterday was pretty achy. Little mild fever. Spots came in the afternoon. Today, I woke up feeling good,” Edwards said in the video.

Measles is most contagious for about four days before and four days after the rash appears and is one of the world’s most contagious diseases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Doctors and public health experts said Edwards’ decision to go into the clinic put children, their parents and their community at risk because he could have spread it to others. They said there was no scenario in which Edwards’ conduct would be reasonable.

He had active, contagious measles and he met with children and their families without knowing if they had compromised immune systems and no doubt assuming they were unvaccinated and just spread it around. It’s sick. It should be criminal.

And then the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States of America shows up and calls him a great “healer” because he’s using some snake oil “cure” for a disease that can be fatal.

By the way, the comments on that twitter thread are all about “stopping” mRNA, the life-saving technology that saved millions during COVID and shows great promise in curing cancer. I feel like I’ve been transported back to the time of the Inquisition. This is nuts.