Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/rfk-jr-pick-review-covid-vaccines

The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research on the topic, according to more than a dozen scientists and public health experts.

Retsef Levi, an operations management professor, is a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) which is meeting later this month and – many experts fear – could seek to rollback recommendations on who should receive Covid-19 vaccines.

Levi, who holds Israeli and American citizenship, has claimed that Covid-19 vaccines are the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products”, despite a body of research that has shown they are safe and effective. A modeling study published in 2022 in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet estimated that Covid-19 vaccines saved nearly 20 million lives in the first year they were available.

I am tired of these foreign agent provocateurs spreading their inane bullshit like a sick rhino spraying shit on eagerly awaiting fanatics with mouths agape.

That picture is from the CDC's advisory committee on immunization whatnot from June of last year.

You shouldn't judge people by their appearance alone, but I think that if I was appointed to a position like that, and I had accepted the appointment despite it being outside of my field of expertise, I'd at least make myself presentable. You know, get a haircut for example. Because I'd want people to think I was taking the assignment seriously even though I was unqualified to even be allowed in the room.

I'm on the fence here: Definitely I judged the person on the photo because of their appearance, mostly because I didn't know who they were and was ready to hate that person.

A teaching moment, if any.

That said, I'll rather not ask someone to cut their hair because of the job position they uphold unless it is a public facing role.

the prestigious medical journal The Lancet

The same Lancet that published the vaccines cause autism paper by Wakefield and refuse to retract it for 12 years.

The same Lancet that took two years to retract the metformin paper for COVID, even after authors flagged problems with the data.

This is Levi...

Can I take an mRNA vaccine until I only need glasses?

He's a Professor of Management, he has no training or knowledge of how viruses or vaccines work.

Levi has claimed that Covid-19 vaccines are the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products”

That's honestly impressive of a claim for a category of products that includes an infamous number of products that do nothing, as well as a long history of "here's a mix of random drugs and/or poisons, it fixes everything".

Where do they find these people? Is there a file somewhere labelled, "absolute fucking weirdos"?

The regresivists has beta tested this in slovakia.

They found a crackpot doctor, a wannabe politician, and put him in charge of investigation of the management of the pandemic. Instead he went on the holy anti-vax crusade.

https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/news-digest-fico-s-pandemic-investigator-calls-covid-vaccinated-people-corn

That said, I’ll rather not ask someone to cut their hair because of the job position they uphold unless it is a public facing role.

My point is more that he's a charlatan. Here's a paragraph from his Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsef_Levi

Levi is a critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and mRNA vaccines, and a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic. He has published papers on the mortality rates of COVID-19 vaccines. He wrote on Twitter in 2023 that “the evidence is mounting and indisputable that mRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death, especially among young people". On June 11, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced that he appointed Levi as one of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). However, Levi did not have medical, epidemiological, or immunological training, experience, or background.

If he's going to be a charlatan, he can at least try to be a good charlatan and groom himself. It would be different if he was actually a subject matter expert.

The hair is a dead give away though

Fair enough.

I mean as much as I'm wanting to say 'well what did you expect?' I'm very thankful for medical experts who keep digging in and giving publicity to these transgressions.