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Translating what Kennedy’s anti-vaccine allies hear in his response to the measles outbreak
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is threading the needle between his agency’s role as a neutral arbiter of science and the rhetoric of anti-vaccine activists.
Inside an anti-vaccine autism summit in the age of RFK Jr.
Public health experts say the anti-vaccine views fronted by the HHS secretary are wrong and undermine trust in science. But a recent three-day gathering shows his followers still believe in him.
Former top health official criticizes RFK Jr. for downplaying measles deaths
The former top vaccines official at the Food and Drug Administration criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
RFK Jr. says cause of autism will be found by September, but experts fear he's reviving debunked theories
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a "massive testing and research effort" will focus on the cause of autism, but ...
Autism rate increased, CDC says in report that contradicts RFK Jr. on cause
In a sample of communities, the biennial autism surveillance report found that 1 in 31 8-year-olds had the condition. The CDC attributed the increase to better screening.
RFK Jr.’s long, complicated history with the measles vaccines
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week made his strongest endorsement yet of the measles vaccine ...
Kennedy tells FDA employees that 'the Deep State is real': report
HHS Secretary Kennedy reportedly told FDA employees on Friday that "the Deep State" is real and that the agency had become a ...
RFK Jr. Bought a $4.4M Georgetown House Per Cheryl Hines’ “Demands”—the Misogynistic Press Was Free
The Health and Human Services secretary has a DC home to call his own, but there’s one grating thing about how the sale is ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claims measles vaccine protection ‘wanes very quickly'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for people to get the measles vaccine while in the same breath falsely claiming it hasn’t been ...