Heather Cox Richardson
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7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not only was it unfair to make the industrious and the prudent responsible for such shiftless men, he wrote, it would ruin the country, by destroying individual enterprise.
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Sumner called for a laissez-faire world in which those who failed should be permitted to sink into poverty and die to keep the US from becoming a place where lazy people wanted a handout.
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In the end, such people needed to be purged from society for the good of the nation.
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At the time, those succeeding in the industrializing economy nodded along with Sumner.
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The Republican New York Times editor wrote that even though Sumner's views are singularly hard and uncompromising, it is difficult to quarrel with their deductions, however one may feel one's finer instinct hurt by their apparent cruelty.
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The Trump administration seems to have embraced Sumner's belief that the nation depends upon the survival of the fittest.
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As microbiologist and senior health reporter Beth Mole reported last year in Rs Technica, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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Kennedy Jr.
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appears to believe that the key to health is not to rely on the vaccines proven to prevent infectious diseases, but rather to have a strong immune system, fortified, as he wrote in a 2021 book, through healthy.
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Living, clean water, and good nutrition.
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He accused those who support vaccines of misleading the American public for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare industry.
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This seems to explain why he has claimed, without evidence, that the Texas children who died of measles were malnourished, and that we don't know what was killing the eighty-three Samoans who died in the country's twenty nineteen measles epidemic, during which Kennedy associated with members of the anti-vaccine movement there.
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It would also explain why he promised to turn away from promoting vaccination to exploring new treatments for measles, including vitamins.
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And it would help to explain the effort to change the vaccine schedule for children by separating the MMR vaccine into single disease vaccines.
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Rather than two shots requiring two doctors' visits, the vaccine series would require six.
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Experts say such a change will mean poorer children will not get the whole vaccine series, putting them and their
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our communities at risk.
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If overall health can fight off germs and illnesses, then measures like the pasteurization of milk and the tracking of foodborne illnesses are unnecessary.
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The US is experiencing a particularly bad wave of foodborne illness.
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It's driven both by hot weather that nurtures food contamination and by federal funding cuts that scaled back the ability of federal agencies to conduct food inspections and provide grants to state and local health departments that used to be able to trace outbreaks quickly.
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