Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism

David Geir, who is heading this federal study, was previously disciplined for practicing medicine without a license:

https://www.mbp.state.md.us/BPQAPP/orders/GeierOrder07.302.p...

He also has a track record of retracted publications.

"Only the best..."

Joe Rogan's latest interview is with a hardcore anti-vax doctor, Suzanne Humphries. Through the whole pandemic I never heard this perspective. It is so taboo that it has been effectively suppressed unless you go looking for it. Her persona is seriously non grata on Youtube et al. Rogan is a crack in the dike. There are a lot of astonishing claims that she claims to backup in her book. But Joe's interview is sympathetic and credulous, and he's shown that he can move the needle on such topics. It will move a lot of vaccination needles away from arms.

If Humphries is right, medical scientists, practitioners and the rest of us have earned far more epistemic humility than we have accepted. That's a tough pill to swallow.

This was discussed on an Ars Technica article [flagged] HN post yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484093

Well since the ones that had the job before hid all the connections this is a move in positive direction nontheless.