Washington – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Did he insist that he does not want to remove vaccines – he just wants to make sure they are safe.
But he has already outlined a blueprint that could subject recommended vaccines to renewed research, to transmit research, to strip legal protection for vaccine makers and change how vaccines are advertised. His step -by -step plan offers a window on how RFK Jr. The levers of power could use the best American health official to sow doubts about vaccines at a time when the percentages of the variations in childhood are already slipping.
The nominee of President Trump to lead the Ministry of Health and Human Services in a book from 2023 that he co-writer: “VAX-Unvax: Let the Science Speak”, and On the website He has worked from a non -profit organization that it promotes the idea that vaccines are unsafe. The book, which claims that the cumulative effects of vaccination are not studied enough, is one of the many that RFK Jr. has written about vaccines and public health as part of his decades of search for question whether vaccines are safe.
Has taken up his advocacy against vaccination reflect that claims “Autism comes from vaccines” and conspiracy theories that claim that government officials and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates have worked together to promote vaccines to take advantage. He has also advanced these ideas through the health defense of the non -profit organization, which has filed lawsuits with regard to vaccinations.
RFK Jr. This week is confronted with confirmation hearings for two senate committees, and it is likely that legislators will ask for his opinion about vaccinations. Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) Populated 16 questions about immunisations in a long letter prior to the hearings. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell (KY.) Also indicated his concern about the vaccine views of the nominee.
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