The House of Pod Rants 4: The Revenge
Dec 9, 2025
Kaveh hosts Dr. David Gorski, a surgical oncologist known for critiquing pseudoscience, Dr. Seth Trueger, an emergency medicine physician focusing on health policy, and Edward Nirenberg, an analyst addressing vaccine misinformation. They dive into the implications of ACIP's new Hepatitis B birth-dose policy and critique the weak evidence behind it. The discussion tackles the wellness industry's hypocrisy, aluminum adjuvants in vaccines, and debunks claims of aluminum toxicity while addressing the shifting landscape of anti-vaccine sentiment.
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Birth Dose Hepatitis B Policy Shift
- The CDC panel moved from universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination to individualized guidance based on maternal testing.
- Dr. Kaveh Hoda warns this will lower uptake and raise chronic hepatitis B, reversing decades of public-health gains.
Vaccines Reduce Pharma's Long-Term Customer Base
- Anti-vaccine narratives claim pharma wants people chronically ill to sell drugs, using hepatitis B as an example.
- Dr. Kaveh Hoda points out the exact opposite: vaccination prevents lifelong antiviral dependence and future disease.
Wellness Industry Hypocrisy
- Wellness and MAHA proponents attack mainstream medicine yet sell poorly regulated supplements made by large corporations.
- Seth Trueger highlights the hypocrisy that supplements avoid the rigorous checks medicines face while monetizing fear.