Dr. Joseph Ladapo As Possible CDC Director
We ran this post in October, 2022. Dr. Ladapo could be a fine CDC Director choice. Media is already slamming him. You know why. Ladapo has been a pox on our state from the time DeSantis pushed aside Dr. Scott Rivkees, the state’s respectable surgeon general, to create a mischievous vacancy.
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Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, author of Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health, voices opposition to adding COVID-19 vaccine to CDC’s immunization schedule for children
Dr. Joseph Ladapo is the first state surgeon general to speak out against CDC recommendations.
“A vaccine associated with rapidly declining effectiveness against infection, an evolving safety profile including possible subclinical myocarditis, and no high-quality evidence proving a clinical benefit to healthy children should not be added to the routine vaccine schedule.
“It is an insult to the scientific process and shows that current leadership at the CDC and other parts of the federal government prioritize politics over common sense. Americans deserve better, more honest leadership in public health.”
In Dr. Ladapo’s book Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health published on August 23, 2022, he describes his views on public health restrictions, early home treatment, and COVID-19 vaccines, along with how Florida officials made public health decisions that set Florida apart from other states—and nations. Based on this experience, Dr. Ladapo explains how states can make better public health decisions in the future—particularly during a crisis.
Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD is the surgeon general of Florida and professor at University of Florida College of Medicine. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Ladapo worked as an associate professor of general internal medicine and a health policy researcher at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and children.
Praise for Transcend Fear
"In two years of interviewing public health officials, Dr. Joe Ladapo was the most impressive I met, and the most decent. I suspect it won't be long before every American knows his name."
—Tucker Carlson
“This gripping biographical narrative lets the world understand the complex reality that has unfolded in the life of Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD. He stands as an impressive physical and intellectual force yet has been formed and molded into a respectful, careful, and quietly courageous leader in public health. The narrative quickly brings the reader through the life of Ladapo, his family, and Governor Ron DeSantis as characters working to save Floridians and the nation at large from the catastrophic federal response to the pandemic that has unfolded before our very eyes. Ladapo is a wonderful writer and has taken brave steps in disclosure that many public figures could not bring themselves to do in spoken words or print. This book will stand as an important inflection point for Dr. Ladapo and America’s public health community at a time of continued crisis and upheaval in our country. So, sit back and enjoy this wonderful story about one of America's finest heroes in contemporary history.”
—Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, coauthor of Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Biopharmaceutical Complex
“I searched the nation for ethical and honorable physicians to tell the American people the real public health truth. By reviewing decades of research prior to Covid and observing real-time scientific data, Dr. Ladapo spoke boldly and accurately. He reminded us that masks are unable to stop the spread of a tiny respiratory virus; he reminded us that early treatment is always superior to negligence; and he reminded us of Public Health 101: locking down healthy people is never going to be an effective—or legal—public health measure. Dr. Ladapo was different because he refused to delegate his personal responsibility to think critically—even in the face of overwhelming pressure to follow the herd.”
—Simone Gold, MD, JD, founder of America’s Frontline Doctors and CEO of GoldCare™Health & Wellness
“Joe Ladapo has been one of very few public voices of reason throughout the Covid pandemic. While other leaders in the field of public health have panicked, forgotten their training, and allowed their thinking to be clouded by fear, he has consistently demanded that we look at the actual evidence, and do a careful weighing of benefits and harms before putting in place massively disruptive public health interventions. With Joe at the center of Florida’s public health decision making, it is not hard to understand why the state has come out of the pandemic looking so good.”
—Sebastian Rushworth, MD, author of Covid: Why Most of What You Know Is Wrong
President Donald Trump plans to nominate CDC Acting Director Susan Monarez for the agency’s top post, CBS reported today.
Monarez was previously deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created by the Biden administration to accelerate “high-risk, high reward” biomedical research. ARPA-H is modeled after the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
You got to be kidding?
Why don't we just get Fauci back from Italy, sounds like the same evil people.
Posted by: Benedetta | March 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
ATTENTION DOGE, Secy. HHS Kennedy:
Where is HHS Most Wanted CDC researcher Poul Thorsen?
I demand that he be extradicted from Denmark to stand trial in Georgia for stealing $1 million dollars from the CDC:
HHS Inspector General Most wanted List:
"In April 2011, Thorsen was indicted on 22 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering."
"From approximately February 2004 until February 2010, Poul Thorsen executed a scheme to steal grant money awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC had awarded grant money to Denmark for research involving infant disabilities, autism, genetic disorders, and fetal alcohol syndrome. CDC awarded the grant to fund studies of the relationship between autism and the exposure to vaccines, the relationship between cerebral palsy and infection during pregnancy, and the relationship between developmental outcomes and fetal alcohol exposure.
Thorsen worked as a visiting scientist at CDC, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, before the grant was awarded.
The initial grant was awarded to the Danish Medical Research Council. In approximately 2007, a second grant was awarded to the Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. Both agencies are governmental agencies in Denmark. The research was done by the Aarhaus University and Odense University Hospital in Denmark.
Thorsen allegedly diverted over $1 million of the CDC grant money to his own personal bank account. Thorsen submitted fraudulent invoices on CDC letterhead to medical facilities assisting in the research for reimbursement of work allegedly covered by the grants."
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/poul-thorsen/
AUTISM RESEARCHER INDICTED FOR STEALING GRANT MONEY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 13, 2011
Thorsen Allegedly Absconded With Over $1 Million
https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/gan/press/2011/04-13-11.html
Autism Researcher Indicted for Stealing Grant Money from CDC
Danish man allegedly stole more than $1 million
"He allegedly used the money to buy a house in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, an Audi and a Honda, along with allegedly cashing several cashiers checks. The indictment requires him to give up the motorcycle, house and cars.
Thorsen faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count and a maximum of 10 years in prison for each money laundering count, along with a fine of up to $250,000 for each count.
“Grant money for disease research is a precious commodity. When grant funds are stolen, we lose not only the money, but also the opportunity to better understand and cure debilitating diseases," United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a statement. "We will now seek the defendant’s extradition for him to face federal charges in the United States.”
https://patch.com/georgia/vahi/autism-researcher-indicted-for-stealing-grant-money-from-cdc
Thorsen's controversial CDC funded vaccine/autism "research" paper is still linked by vaccine apologist "Orac" aka Dr. David Gorski (cancer surgeon) as evidence that there is no vaccine/"autism" link:
A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12421889/
RFK Jr. weighed in on this at the time:
"In spite of the fact that Thorsen appears to be easily located, was an author on a scientific poster at a conference this year, and is living and working in Denmark, a number of high-profile vaccine-autism conspiracy adherents, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have repeated only in the last few months the claim that he is a fugitive, “on the run from Interpol,” and on Interpol’s most-wanted list. The Kennedy connection is an interesting one, given that Thorsen is author on a 2014 paper with other authors publishing “for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network.”
If the charges are true, Thorsen bilked the US government, specifically the CDC, out of millions and used it to buy himself things. How that translates into a willingness to engage in a conspiracy with the CDC remains elusive.
But if he is guilty, living and working comfortably and continuing scientific research in Denmark isn't the consequence he deserves. Indeed, I would find it egregious that anyone could just merrily continue engaging in science and finding colleagues who seem happy to work with him after he skirted justice, ripped off the taxpayers of my country, and opened up legitimate scientific work to accusations of fraud by association."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2015/08/10/hey-interpol-i-found-your-autism-researcher-fugitive/
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | March 24, 2025 at 01:21 AM
RFKennedy Jr has been put head of school lunches."
So how did Michelle Obama get that job without HHS appointment or Congressional approval? "My wife is a good cook and she likes to garden," were her qualifications.
Well, we still have the freedom to just say "no thank you" to vaccines.
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | March 23, 2025 at 02:06 AM
I am sorry. this is not the time for second guessing people in high places because they have struggled so hard.
2016, in my garden; I was visited by the Holy Spirit.
We are going to win; the human race is going to win.
Posted by: Benedetta | March 22, 2025 at 09:14 PM
After Fauci got done with all of us; Congress has passed a law, I read that recently? The way my memory is going, it was right in this article. The appointment for the CDC head is no longer just up to the president as in the past, now it has to be vetted by Congress.
I guess that happened after the likes of Fauci. Rand Paul, I get his emails all the time; is beside himself to get Fauci.
Oh Fauci is in Italy now. Living well Has a job with GSK ; that is official now, cause he has always worked for them.
I don't think Dr. Joseph Ladapo is going to get in.
" Dr. Joseph Ladapo, and a former Texas Republican congressman, Dr. Michael Burgess, are each being backed by some of President Trump's allies to be the next head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The White House is searching for a replacement after the nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman, was abruptly pulled last week."
He was for all the vaccines, covid CDC do as you will till he was not. So a true politician.
What does Dr. Michael Burgess really believe and stand for?
RFKennedy Jr has been put head of school lunches.
I don't think anything is going to change here? I am so sorry. I don't think Trump has the steel in his spine on this matter, he gives us the fact that autism has risen and that is all.
They are all folding like cheap suits when it came to a few measle cases in Texas, and of course polio looms. All they have to do is stop naming any kind of paralyzing disease what they are calling it now and start calling it polio. Again.
Posted by: Benedetta | March 22, 2025 at 09:29 AM
MTG says the quiet part out loud....
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is calling on the FDA to pull approval of the coronavirus vaccines and remove them from the childhood vaccine schedule, citing links to “permanent harm and deaths.”
"Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo was among those who led the way in bringing attention to the potential side effects of the vaccines, which caught little attention from mainstream outlets as the Biden administration attempted to force the jabs on millions upon millions of workers via Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-to-pull-fda-approval-of-coronavirus-vaccines-asap/
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | March 21, 2025 at 06:30 PM
Autism Mom;
Monoclonal antibodies were used in covid 19 treatments, so that is a one time deal.
I see that this same antibody binder TB006 ; a monoclonal antibody is also showing promise in treatment for Alzheimer's and Parkinson disease as well.
In Kawasaki disease which is serum sickness they were using immunoglobin treatment which is polyclonal antibody treatment. That means more than one, by many. They were obtaining blood from 10,000 donors (that is what they said) and get the antibodies out of all of that to treat Kawalskis. From my understanding it was only a couple of treatments .
It is all IV infusions. They go to a clinic and sit there hooked up to an IV for half a day.
Which is what my sister-in-law has done for years. She is getting a Polyclonal or immunoglobin treatment. She sits half a day getting those treatments at some medical facility.
It cost her 1000s of dollars per treatment I don't know how she is paying for it. She stops from time to time, but then gets some kind of reoccurring infection and back she goes. In her case it is not a cure, but a treatment.
Posted by: Benedetta | March 20, 2025 at 02:56 PM
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06500637
[email protected]
Per Detailed Description: "A key molecular mechanism implicated in ASD is immune dysregulation and unchecked neuroinflammation marked by increased microglial activation. Galectin-3 (Gal-3) a galactoside-binding lectin, is critical to activation of neuroinflammation resulting in the proliferation of microglia 7 Gal-3 has been shown to be elevated in individuals with ASD. To inhibit Gal-3's contribution to neuroinflammation. Truebinding has developed TB006, a neutralizing monoclonal antibody against Gal-3. Our overall hypothesis is that TB006 will significantly improve core and associated behavioral symptoms of ASD and be well tolerated with no significant adverse effects in adults with ASD."
Posted by: Autism Mom | March 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Maybe they should not have with drawn Weldon's nomination At least the second nomination refused would be harder do you think?
Posted by: Benedetta | March 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM