True colors on display in U.S Dept. of Health and Human Services

From sowing doubt about childhood vaccines to appointing fringe researchers to lead bogus studies, Kennedy is advancing the anti-vaccine agenda he swore he didn't have.

Excerpt: " During his confirmation hearing to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to distance himself from his notorious reputation as the country’s most infamous anti-vaxxer.

He said he supported the measles vaccine, despite writing in a 2021 book that Americans had been “misled” into “believing that measles is a deadly disease and that measles vaccines are necessary, safe, and effective.” He promised to support the childhood vaccine schedule, despite casting doubt on the long-term safety of that schedule in his 2023 book.

“I believe that vaccines play a critical role in healthcare,” Kennedy said. “All of my kids are vaccinated.”

Kennedy’s doublespeak was at least enough to land him the job. Now that he’s in it, though, Kennedy has continued apace with his just-asking-questions approach to undermining vaccination in America.

Kennedy’s attacks on vaccines were apparently so swift and so disruptive that in late March, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official quit the agency in a fiery resignation letter. “This man doesn’t care about the truth. He cares about what is making him followers,” Dr. Peter Marks wrote to the FDA’s acting commissioner."