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Hiltzik: With slate of anti-vaccine moves, RFK Jr. steps up his assault on public health
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. places anti-vaxxers in control of U.S. vaccine policy, slandering an actual expert along ...
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Stephanie Grace: Bill Cassidy is running out of excuses for RFK Jr.
U.S. Sen. and physician Bill Cassidy wagered that he could keep Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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How one meeting in 2020 and a GOP senator helped create RFK Jr.’s vaccine wreck
In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...
Amid the complex nature of autism, CT families face new conundrum: RFK
We’re not going to find a smoking gun that is going to explain the incidence of autism. And it’s certainly not going to be ...
After RFK Jr. autism claims, CT families respond — one with a poem
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...
Vaccine advisory overhaul: Kennedy's controversial panel picks spark Senate scrutiny
A former mRNA researcher who has gone on podcasts claiming Americans were “hypnotized” into getting Covid-19 shots and that ...
RFK Jr. faces blowback from senators, former vaccine committee members after firings
Recently fired members of a committee that advises the federal government on immunization safety lashed out at Health and ...
CDC vaccine advisers who were removed from committee by RFK Jr. speak out
The 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, who were ousted last week, argued their abrupt dismissal has "left ...
RFK Jr. is sabotaging the vaccine program. Here’s how to stop him.
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed secretary of Health and Human Services, some hoped that the responsibility of public ...
After firing entire CDC vaccine committee, RFK Jr. appoints 8 new members including vaccine skeptics: Who they are and what to know
Health and Human Services Department head RFK Jr. ousted all 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization ...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine moves raise fears ahead of next school year
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) entire vaccine board even as childhood vaccination rates ...