A collection of 8 posts
The hepatitis B vaccine episode is a preview of what happens when scientific institutions are corrupted by people who reject the scientific method itself.
By firing experts, cancelling important research funding, and promoting conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. threatens to undermine some of America’s most important public health achievements.
In anticipation of the ‘new results’ RFK Jr. has promised about the causes of autism, an overview of what science has already learned.
Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
The US health secretary is spreading disinformation about vaccines while the administration he serves guts medical-research agencies and programs.
Water fluoridation is a scientifically validated public health measure. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to eliminate it is unjustified scaremongering.
Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.