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The new US secretary of Health and Human Services has a long history of spreading misinformation about vaccines. How much damage can he do?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
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Protests from his family and medical professionals, his stances on vaccines and AIDS, and Bernie Sanders's onesie interrogation. But the polio virus shares his excitement about returning to work. #DailyShow #RFKJr #Vaccine #Health
In October 1956 the ascending rock idol lent his considerable stardom to helping save lives by getting vaccinated against polio on the Ed Sullivan show. Today an anti-vax fanatic with a celebrity name is in line to be in charge of public health.
The reactionary playbook frames all COVID-era public-health measures as an elite conspiracy to enrich what it calls “a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders.” It's also flypaper for conspiracy theorists on the left.
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RFK, Jr.'s nomination normalizes and emboldens the anti-vaccine movement. The danger now is that diseases confined to the past become diseases of the future.
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