Someone once said that politicians should be like NASCAR drivers and show all their sponsors on their uniform. Maybe the same should apply to anyone commenting on public health matters.
Aren’t we giving RFK, Jr. a pass on his innumerable lies? (Personally that might actually be reasonable because I think he is slightly deranged. Liars are usually consistent and the number of contradictory statements suggest that he does not actually know what he’s doing).
So put simply: the venerable, esteemed Dr. Paul Offit is a simple two-bit liar. Who knew. And who knew how gullible the MSM and CNN were. Paul Offit is a disgrace to medicine and to science. There is nothing worse than to lie about facts that anybody can check. And further, to claim that 50% of the US population is chronically infected with HBV is simply insane and provably nonsense. Dr. Offit deserves to have his medical license taken away from him.
Thanks Maryanne. Bald-faced lies by publicly respected people influencing millions of people ought to be called out, but very rarely are with such authority and documented precision. Well done! How do such people sleep at night?? Are they really just driven by personal wealth aspirations?? We only get one life - what a way to use it!
Offit avoids debates and doesn't enter into any interview where the journalist fact-checks him...and/or he will present "alternative facts" and will avoid providing evidence for these facts if queried about them. He is a classic example of the physician who has sold his soul to Big Pharma.
Worst of all, the media is complicit with him and allows him to fabricate his world view.
It was remarkable when he told the truth after the second Covid booster was released, and he told the media that he was NOT recommending it because there were no clinical trials showing their efficacy! Wow! And then, when the media stopped interviewing him, he wrote a super pro-vaccine book in get into their good graces again...and of course, he avoids questions about the efficacy of the Covid boosters.
Offit is the poster child for conflicted scientists who spout what his task masters want to hear.
"It was remarkable when he told the truth after the second Covid booster was released, and he told the media that he was NOT recommending it because there were no clinical trials showing their efficacy! ..."
. . .
Almost four years ago, David Zwieg wrote a still relevant essay (“Why Are We Boosting Kids?”)*1 He wrote that “Dr. Paul Offit … recently said that getting boosted would not be worth the risk for the average healthy 17-year-old boy, and he advised his son, who is in his 20s, not to get a third dose” https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/should-teens-get-booster-omicron/621222/
It's worth noting his advice went against that of the CDC & ACIP vaccine recommendations! Now, I wonder if he, and his son, are getting their annual Covid booster (and Offit should be getting a booster 2x a year!).
*1: David Zweig, “Why Are We Boosting Kids?” – The CDC and the FDA have ignored other countries’ caution, the WHO’s chief scientist, American experts, and their own data. https://www.thefp.com/p/why-are-we-boosting-kids
Here's a video depicting Paul Offit's response to Joshua Coleman's respectful request for an interview with the Vaxxed Bus, with Offit's response being: "Get outta here. Get the fuck outta here. I don’t want to talk to you. Alright." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5EDASGJsSY
Offit's response epitomises the arrogant and contemptuous attitude people face when they question vaccination policy and practice.
It's because of people such as Paul Offit that we are in the current diabolical mess with people being vaccinated over and over again via the 'womb to tomb' vaccination schedule.
And Offit is a medical doctor who supports mandatory vaccination, i.e. supports violating valid voluntary informed consent for vaccination.
Has anyone in the US reported medical doctor Paul Offit for his support of mandatory vaccination, and thereby the violation of valid voluntary informed consent for vaccination?
See below transcript of the video:
Joshua Coleman: I think they wanted to see if they could get an interview with you Paul. Are you up for that? An interview with the Vaxxed Bus?
Paul Offit: Who are you?
Joshua Coleman: I’m just a camera guy.
Paul Offit: No.
Joshua Coleman: You’re not interested?
Paul Offit: Are you kidding me?
Joshua Coleman: We could talk about, you know, differences of opinion.
Paul Offit’s Colleague: You know you can’t do that here right?
Paul Offit: Get outta here. Get the fuck outta here. I don’t want to talk to you. Alright.
Joshua Coleman: I mean, I just think if you have the truth on your side you’d be up for just having a conversation.
Paul Offit: Out!
Joshua Coleman: …I’m just a camera guy, that’s it… Have a good lunch.
“Public health relies on trust, honesty and transparency. When influential experts make false claims, and networks fail to scrutinise them, the public is misled.
Offit declined the opportunity to clarify his statements. The record now speaks for itself.”
As you say Margaret: “Public health relies on trust, honesty and transparency. When influential experts make false claims, and networks fail to scrutinise them, the public is misled."
Influential experts are making false claims about diseases and vaccine products. This is mis/disinformation. How can people make informed decisions about vaccine interventions, when fear-mongering and lies are spread to make people succumb to vaccination for themselves and their children? And what does it even matter to be 'informed' if the vaccine intervention is mandated, with incentives, pressure, coercion and manipulation being exerted to make people comply, under threat of penalty?
It's a disaster...particularly for the medical profession...as vaccinators have collaborated with incentives, pressure, coercion, manipulation and mandates, and violated their own personal professional and legal obligation to obtain voluntary informed consent for vaccination, and respect people's freedom to decline the intervention if they so choose.
This is the ginormous scandal that is yet to be understood...there is no authentic voluntary informed consent for vaccination.
I say it over and over but worth repeating “45 years given to the medical profession” as an RN hospital trained (the best of the best hospital) and they have failed the people! Closer to 80 than 70! In fact, I just began the 80th year as some countries count! The “Day of Infamy” proclaimed FDR! Justice please for hurting people!
Paul Offit is an example of why Americans have lost trust in the medical establishment. He outright lies on a major TV station and would easily lie right to your face. His claims put fear in the hearts of low informed parents who want to protect their children. The fact that he is a paid propagandist is not ever revealed to them. I wish that you or Dr Levi could refute his claims on CNN and point out his bias. I’d suggest Dr Malone as well except his reputation amongst these crazies has been trashed. They are fools. I also blame the “journalists” who give Offit a platform. They, too, are biased and paid for by big Pharma. Thank you, Maryanne, for being at the forefront to report and correct the lies told by these unscrupulous people.
Dr Triple D .. deceptive, deceitful, and dangerous
.. by his habitual dishonesty he has become Death, the Destroyer of worlds .. of lives within ours
fortunately, by such investigations as this, Offit is proving to be patient zero for the herd immunity developing against his poisonous .. verging on criminal .. lies
how easy it is to detest such truly mad mad scientists as he
“CDC data presented to ACIP last week make this clear [Armstrong's 30,000 children were speculative reconstructions, not surveillance data]. The national surveillance system (NNDSS) shows acute hepatitis B cases in children under 10 were extremely low — around 400 per year — before the universal birth dose was introduced.”
. . .
During the December 4th meeting, Dr. Nevision gave a presentation, “Burden of Disease,” about Heb B. However, this morning in his Substack post Dr. Offit falsely claimed that “Nevison had ignored the 1991 data [Armstrong's model] showing that thousands of American children had acquired hepatitis B infections from sources other than their mothers.” https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-we-need-to-stop-trusting-experts
In reality, Dr. Nevison specifically discussed Armstrong's study. She concluded, “Horizontal transmission among young children is rare and was strongly overstated by the Armstrong et al. model.”
One of the classic "tells" of a liar and sociopath is the rigid adherence to correctness. The wise person recognizes the limits of his/her knowledge, acknowledges the ambiguity of the truth, and honors his/her opponent by pointing out the merits of their argument, without ignoring the weaknesses. Absolutism betrays intellectual dishonesty. The power of the sociopathic liar is to charm us with their certainty. They instinctively understand that humans all struggle with ambiguity, and crave simple explanations, which they are all too willing to supply for us. The irony is that in many ways, they are their own best customers. In other words they likely narcissistically fall in love with the incantations of certitude that they hear fall from their own lips.
Was Offitt lying about “50% of people in this country have chronic hepatitis B and don’t know it,” or did he get confused and repeat his earlier “50% of people with chronic hepatitis" line, but screw up by changing one word?
I’m not sure. Did he misspeak? I asked him to clarify what he meant but got no response. He also did not respond to questions about his other claims which directly contradicted my own records.
It's possible he screwed up. But, he sure did say it with demonic self-confidence. To be less charitable, if he ever was called out on it [as Maryanne has done here], he could claim plausible deniability (e.g "I misspoke"). In any case, his statement certainly raised the fear level among CNN viewers.
Wow. If 50% of Americans really did have Hepatitis, you would have to question that 34 years of vaccination at birth. 🤔
I had never closely examined the prevalence before, but even prior to the universal birth dose, the numbers were extremely low.
Well, a smart journalist would, but this is CNN. Those w/ brains need not apply.
They are paid to toe the line.
Yes!!!
Someone once said that politicians should be like NASCAR drivers and show all their sponsors on their uniform. Maybe the same should apply to anyone commenting on public health matters.
Disclosure is one thing....lying is another.
Aren’t we giving RFK, Jr. a pass on his innumerable lies? (Personally that might actually be reasonable because I think he is slightly deranged. Liars are usually consistent and the number of contradictory statements suggest that he does not actually know what he’s doing).
Which lies?
So put simply: the venerable, esteemed Dr. Paul Offit is a simple two-bit liar. Who knew. And who knew how gullible the MSM and CNN were. Paul Offit is a disgrace to medicine and to science. There is nothing worse than to lie about facts that anybody can check. And further, to claim that 50% of the US population is chronically infected with HBV is simply insane and provably nonsense. Dr. Offit deserves to have his medical license taken away from him.
Thanks Maryanne. Bald-faced lies by publicly respected people influencing millions of people ought to be called out, but very rarely are with such authority and documented precision. Well done! How do such people sleep at night?? Are they really just driven by personal wealth aspirations?? We only get one life - what a way to use it!
I ask myself these questions all the time.
Offit avoids debates and doesn't enter into any interview where the journalist fact-checks him...and/or he will present "alternative facts" and will avoid providing evidence for these facts if queried about them. He is a classic example of the physician who has sold his soul to Big Pharma.
Worst of all, the media is complicit with him and allows him to fabricate his world view.
It was remarkable when he told the truth after the second Covid booster was released, and he told the media that he was NOT recommending it because there were no clinical trials showing their efficacy! Wow! And then, when the media stopped interviewing him, he wrote a super pro-vaccine book in get into their good graces again...and of course, he avoids questions about the efficacy of the Covid boosters.
Offit is the poster child for conflicted scientists who spout what his task masters want to hear.
"It was remarkable when he told the truth after the second Covid booster was released, and he told the media that he was NOT recommending it because there were no clinical trials showing their efficacy! ..."
. . .
Almost four years ago, David Zwieg wrote a still relevant essay (“Why Are We Boosting Kids?”)*1 He wrote that “Dr. Paul Offit … recently said that getting boosted would not be worth the risk for the average healthy 17-year-old boy, and he advised his son, who is in his 20s, not to get a third dose” https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/should-teens-get-booster-omicron/621222/
It's worth noting his advice went against that of the CDC & ACIP vaccine recommendations! Now, I wonder if he, and his son, are getting their annual Covid booster (and Offit should be getting a booster 2x a year!).
*1: David Zweig, “Why Are We Boosting Kids?” – The CDC and the FDA have ignored other countries’ caution, the WHO’s chief scientist, American experts, and their own data. https://www.thefp.com/p/why-are-we-boosting-kids
Here's a video depicting Paul Offit's response to Joshua Coleman's respectful request for an interview with the Vaxxed Bus, with Offit's response being: "Get outta here. Get the fuck outta here. I don’t want to talk to you. Alright." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5EDASGJsSY
Offit's response epitomises the arrogant and contemptuous attitude people face when they question vaccination policy and practice.
It's because of people such as Paul Offit that we are in the current diabolical mess with people being vaccinated over and over again via the 'womb to tomb' vaccination schedule.
And Offit is a medical doctor who supports mandatory vaccination, i.e. supports violating valid voluntary informed consent for vaccination.
Has anyone in the US reported medical doctor Paul Offit for his support of mandatory vaccination, and thereby the violation of valid voluntary informed consent for vaccination?
See below transcript of the video:
Joshua Coleman: I think they wanted to see if they could get an interview with you Paul. Are you up for that? An interview with the Vaxxed Bus?
Paul Offit: Who are you?
Joshua Coleman: I’m just a camera guy.
Paul Offit: No.
Joshua Coleman: You’re not interested?
Paul Offit: Are you kidding me?
Joshua Coleman: We could talk about, you know, differences of opinion.
Paul Offit’s Colleague: You know you can’t do that here right?
Paul Offit: Get outta here. Get the fuck outta here. I don’t want to talk to you. Alright.
Joshua Coleman: I mean, I just think if you have the truth on your side you’d be up for just having a conversation.
Paul Offit: Out!
Joshua Coleman: …I’m just a camera guy, that’s it… Have a good lunch.
Also see: Dr. Paul Offit: Debunking the Vaccine-Autism Link. Newsweek. Oct 24 2008, updated Jun 03 2010: https://www.newsweek.com/dr-paul-offit-debunking-vaccine-autism-link-91933
Wow, he's a piece of work.
Yep, a piece of work…
“Public health relies on trust, honesty and transparency. When influential experts make false claims, and networks fail to scrutinise them, the public is misled.
Offit declined the opportunity to clarify his statements. The record now speaks for itself.”
This says it all Maryanne!
As you say Margaret: “Public health relies on trust, honesty and transparency. When influential experts make false claims, and networks fail to scrutinise them, the public is misled."
Influential experts are making false claims about diseases and vaccine products. This is mis/disinformation. How can people make informed decisions about vaccine interventions, when fear-mongering and lies are spread to make people succumb to vaccination for themselves and their children? And what does it even matter to be 'informed' if the vaccine intervention is mandated, with incentives, pressure, coercion and manipulation being exerted to make people comply, under threat of penalty?
It's a disaster...particularly for the medical profession...as vaccinators have collaborated with incentives, pressure, coercion, manipulation and mandates, and violated their own personal professional and legal obligation to obtain voluntary informed consent for vaccination, and respect people's freedom to decline the intervention if they so choose.
This is the ginormous scandal that is yet to be understood...there is no authentic voluntary informed consent for vaccination.
I say it over and over but worth repeating “45 years given to the medical profession” as an RN hospital trained (the best of the best hospital) and they have failed the people! Closer to 80 than 70! In fact, I just began the 80th year as some countries count! The “Day of Infamy” proclaimed FDR! Justice please for hurting people!
Paul Offit is an example of why Americans have lost trust in the medical establishment. He outright lies on a major TV station and would easily lie right to your face. His claims put fear in the hearts of low informed parents who want to protect their children. The fact that he is a paid propagandist is not ever revealed to them. I wish that you or Dr Levi could refute his claims on CNN and point out his bias. I’d suggest Dr Malone as well except his reputation amongst these crazies has been trashed. They are fools. I also blame the “journalists” who give Offit a platform. They, too, are biased and paid for by big Pharma. Thank you, Maryanne, for being at the forefront to report and correct the lies told by these unscrupulous people.
Thank you. It’s troubling that legacy media allows these experts to lie with impunity.
Yes, and it harms people because they believe them!!
thank you Dr Demasi,
Dr Triple D .. deceptive, deceitful, and dangerous
.. by his habitual dishonesty he has become Death, the Destroyer of worlds .. of lives within ours
fortunately, by such investigations as this, Offit is proving to be patient zero for the herd immunity developing against his poisonous .. verging on criminal .. lies
how easy it is to detest such truly mad mad scientists as he
“CDC data presented to ACIP last week make this clear [Armstrong's 30,000 children were speculative reconstructions, not surveillance data]. The national surveillance system (NNDSS) shows acute hepatitis B cases in children under 10 were extremely low — around 400 per year — before the universal birth dose was introduced.”
. . .
During the December 4th meeting, Dr. Nevision gave a presentation, “Burden of Disease,” about Heb B. However, this morning in his Substack post Dr. Offit falsely claimed that “Nevison had ignored the 1991 data [Armstrong's model] showing that thousands of American children had acquired hepatitis B infections from sources other than their mothers.” https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-we-need-to-stop-trusting-experts
In reality, Dr. Nevison specifically discussed Armstrong's study. She concluded, “Horizontal transmission among young children is rare and was strongly overstated by the Armstrong et al. model.”
Her presentation starts @ about 37:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpthhPBFAgI
Presentations slides: https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-12-04-05/02-nevison-Hepatitis-B-508.pdf AND https://www.cdc.gov/acip/meetings/presentation-slides-december-04-05-2025.html
Liar Liar Pants on Fire
"30K cases"=Reality is 400 cases..
"165 million Americans" = Reality is 1 million
Maryanne...you have to learn Vaccine maths is different to non vaccine maths !!
Time to skitch our very own American e-Karen onto him!
One of the classic "tells" of a liar and sociopath is the rigid adherence to correctness. The wise person recognizes the limits of his/her knowledge, acknowledges the ambiguity of the truth, and honors his/her opponent by pointing out the merits of their argument, without ignoring the weaknesses. Absolutism betrays intellectual dishonesty. The power of the sociopathic liar is to charm us with their certainty. They instinctively understand that humans all struggle with ambiguity, and crave simple explanations, which they are all too willing to supply for us. The irony is that in many ways, they are their own best customers. In other words they likely narcissistically fall in love with the incantations of certitude that they hear fall from their own lips.
You are simply the best! So good! So thorough! So accurate! Never stop sharing the truth.
Thanks Brian
Was Offitt lying about “50% of people in this country have chronic hepatitis B and don’t know it,” or did he get confused and repeat his earlier “50% of people with chronic hepatitis" line, but screw up by changing one word?
I’m not sure. Did he misspeak? I asked him to clarify what he meant but got no response. He also did not respond to questions about his other claims which directly contradicted my own records.
It's possible he screwed up. But, he sure did say it with demonic self-confidence. To be less charitable, if he ever was called out on it [as Maryanne has done here], he could claim plausible deniability (e.g "I misspoke"). In any case, his statement certainly raised the fear level among CNN viewers.