God help you wary gentlemen,
There’s plenty to dismay,
With nuts like Oz and Kennedy,
There’s madness on the way.
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They’re technophobes with dim light bulbs,
And now they run the show
Oh, the comforts of po-li-o
Polio
Oh, the comforts of po–li–o.
God help you wary gentlemen
You’re stuck with RFK
If you’ve got fleas or heart disease
Raw milk will save the day
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His brain has worms but he still spurns
The penicillin-V
For the comforts of Oz’s vitamin C,
Vitamin C
Oh, the comforts of Oz’s vitamin C
He wants to trash the NIH
And end the FDA
We’ll buy our drugs in Mexico
Or maybe from Bombay
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Stay in your homes and watch for drones
They radiate 5G
Like your toaster, your phone, and your TV,
Your TV
Like your to-as-ter, your phone, and your TV.
Happy and healthy (although not necessarily stress-free) holidays from all of us.
Josh Bloom
Dr. Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, ACSH's Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. During his 20-plus years in drug discovery at Wyeth, his research group discovered the antibiotic Tygacil®, approved in 2005. He holds 25 issued patents and has authored 35 academic papers. Since joining ACSH in 2010, he has written more than 2,000 articles and dozens of op-eds for major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and Chicago Tribune.
