Closed Schools, Closed Minds

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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David Zweig, author of An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions, discusses public health’s blind spots—and when caution became the risk. Plus, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reshapes the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, swapping experts for skeptics and dredging up the long-debunked thimerosal panic on his way to declaring war on mayonnaise. And in the Spiel: a U.S. strike on Iran’s Fordow facility may have been less obliteration than “oblit-ish-ation,” though both the administration and its critics are spinning narratives faster than centrifuges. Produced by Corey WaraProduction Coordinator Ashley KhanEmail us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.2	We talked today. Another update on the advisory committee on immunization practices. Yes, RFK Jr. He fired all 17 experts on the committee
1:19.5	about two weeks ago, filled the committee. And by filled, I mean half filled the committee
1:23.8	with eight members, one quit before today's meeting. So now most of the members
1:27.9	of the committee are what you could call vaccine skeptics. They're opening up the vaccine
1:32.7	schedule, the pediatric vaccine schedule. And today's big recommendation was to take aim at
1:38.7	thimerosol, a form of mercury that is sometimes added to vaccines for sterilization.
1:50.0	But tamarisol is not added to pediatric vaccines because it has been criticized and feared for many years, unwarrantedly feared, but feared.
1:53.5	It's sort of like the chemtrails, or let's be fair, the fluoride of the vaccine space.
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