Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent doubter of the safety of vaccines, told reporters on Tuesday that he will chair a commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity as part of Donald Trump’s administration.
The president-elect’s spokeswoman issued a statement hours later saying “no decisions have been made” about “forming a committee on Autism.” But the news is already raising concern about what Trump, who has a long history of questioning vaccine safety, could do to undercut childhood vaccines.
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What he can do is help to get the truth out in the open in an honest discussion about vaccine safety – why are you so afraid of an open honest discussion?
Can’t the Sec of HHS, who Trump is appointing, put whoever he wants on ACIP committee?
Pres elect seems to never have met a conspiracy he doesn’t give at least some credence to.
As Neil deGrasse Tyson has said “Nothing is more dangerous than a scientifically-illiterate adult in power.”