Anti-Vaccine Advocate and Health Secretary for the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Ordered the nonprofit he on once chaired to delete a webpage that mimiced the deseign of the design of the designs Prevention While Werongly Linking Vaccines to autism. The new york time earlier Reported on the development.
Rfk jr. Has long been an outspocen skeptic of vaccines, despite scant evidence supporting cause for concert. The mock website featured evidence bot support and debunking a connection to autism, but much of the research making a connection a connection was reportedly not Peer-Reverade.
That is a common strategy with conspiracy theorists –Spouse some mainstream views that are undoubtedly true in order to create an aura of legitimacy for the more dubious statement that Follow. Bryan Johnson, The Longevity Guru, offers Fundamental Advice that is Reasonable – Ee Get a Full Night’s Rest, Eat Unprocessed Foods – That Veers Into more fringe ideas Not Necessarily supported by Empirical Evidence.
But children’s health defense, the non-protrofit that rfk jr. LED for Years Before Stepping Aside in 2023, Took an egregious step in creating a fake website intended to look like a real cdc fact sheet. Form Your Local EpidemiologistAn independent Substack:
Apparently even rfk jr. Felt the webpage went too far. Or maybe it is simply that now, as the newly confirmed secretary of the US department of health and human services, he wants to use the institution and his newfound power to contrast. The cdc recently said it will Re-infestigate the link Between vaccines and autism.
It is also possible that deadly measles outbreaks Across the united states have something to do with rfk jr.’s move. The outbreaks have been concentrated in communities with low vaccination rates. In January, an unvaccinated “school-ready” child in texas died from measles-up the first such us death Reported in a decade. Measles are highly contagious, and roughly 94% of a population needs to be vaccinated in order to prevent widespread transmission.
“Secretary kennedy has instructed the office of the general counsel to send a formal demand to child Statement. “At hhs we are dedicated to restoring our agencies to their tradition of upholding gold-standard, evidence-based Science.”
Rfk jr. during his senate Confirmation Hearing Said the cdc would return to “Gold Standard Science,” and said he would support vaccines if shown data backing their safety. But when presented with such evidence during the hearing, rfk jr. would say he had not see the data or old cite raasons to doubt it.