Robert F. Kennedy Jr. always impressed me. In the early 2000s, he worked excellent work as an environmental administration that took over industry pig housing, dirty streams and rivers, and we talked about a visit to North Carolina together to document the pollution.
But then Kennedy began to urge me to write about vaccines in childhood and cited discredited arguments that they caused autism. I had read vaccine research and uninformed his views, conspiracy and dangerous, and his dogmatism generally condemned me about his judgment. I decided that it would be inappropriate to quote someone with such a way of thinking.
And if a person is not qualified to be quoted in a column, she is probably not the best choice to lead America’s health programs.
This applies in particular because one of the greatest potential threats to this country – albeit to measure it – is a bird flu pandemic, since the bird flu mutates and spreads to cows and other mammals. When there is a pandemic, vaccines are essential. Perhaps the best that President Trump did in his first term was the start of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership that accelerated the development of COVID-19 vaccines and saved many lives.
What would happen if another operation was required, but this time the point was suspicious of vaccines in health – including those who arrested the last pandemic?
The Coronavirus vaccine is “the most deadliest vaccine that has ever been produced”, Kennedy mistakenly claimed, and in May 2021 he applied for the government to revoke the approval – although the vaccine had already saved 140,000 lives by then.
Kennedy has also claimed that the Polio vaccine – one of the great triumphs of the 20th century – may have caused cancer “that many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many. The Times has reported that a lawyer near Kennedy, Aaron Siri, who helps him, has applied for health officers for the Trump administration that the government has applied for the approval for the polio vaccine.
Siri has also requested that the government to revoke admission to the hepatitis -B vaccine and a break when distributing about a dozen other vaccines.
Kennedy’s Take? “I love Aaron Siri,” said Kennedy.
Kennedy now insists that he is the senators that he is not “against Akakkine” and would not discourage their use. Really? In 2021 he said in a podcast that he was actively holding parents from vaccinating children and asked others to do the same.
“Our task is to oppose and talk to everyone about it,” he said. “When you walk along the street – and now I do it myself, what is, you know, I don’t want to do it – I am not a busy body. I see someone on a hiking trail that is wearing a little baby and I say to him: “Don’t let him vaccinate.”
“Don’t keep your mouth closed,” he advised. “Confront them all.”
Kennedy said that doctors “slaughtered all of these children” by vaccinating them. The non -profit organization that he founded sells child health defense baby -uresies with news such as “No vax no problem”.
Even now that he is in great pressure, since he hopes to be confirmed, Bobt and Wedt, Kennedy will not do without discredited theory that vaccines cause autism.
The idea of Kennedy’s ongoing health programs is particularly worrying because the administration may not have much medical guidance. The White House Science Advisor is not a scientist. Trump withdraws from the World Health Organization, whose global flu surveillance network contributes to the development of flu vaccine, and the administration even addressed employees from the centers for the control and prevention of illnesses not to send e -mail contacts to the World Health Organization.
Kennedy has good ideas for promoting a healthy school dinner and the discouraging ultra -sonic food. He has the right to ask questions why obesity, diabetes and autism increase (many scientists suspect that a factor can possibly be environmental toxins such as endocrine disruptors). But Kennedy’s passion has been hostility to vaccines for many years that were bundled in certainty and malice.
This is not just a search for vaccine security, as Kennedy tries to propose this. It is a misguided and dangerous campaign to undermine trust in vaccines. A woman dies every two hours in the USA of cervical cancer, which is almost exclusively avoidable with HPV vaccinations – and Kennedy has supported a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the vaccine.
The problems naturally go beyond vaccines. Kennedy is a conspiracy theorist who says in the “debates” about who was behind the 11th September Chinese and Ashkeneas Jews who claimed that Lyme Borreliosis is probably a military biowapen. Some of it is bigotry; Everything is nonsense.
In addition to his ideological excesses, Kennedy does not understand our health system. In his hearings, he confused Medicare and Medicaid. He represents the apotheosis of the politicization of science; He is our own Lysenko.
I hope Senatorers protect American children from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
(Tagstotranslate) Vaccination and immunization
