Vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. says he'll chair vaccine commission for Trump
President-elect Donald Trump has asked vaccine doubter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to chair a “commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity,” Kennedy told reporters after a meeting in Trump Tower Tuesday.
Kennedy, who said he accepted the assignment, has been insisting for over a decade that traces of mercury in a preservative formerly used in childhood vaccines caused a massive increase in autism diagnoses. He has clung to the theory despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.
Kennedy and other vaccine skeptics have found a welcoming audience in Trump, who has repeatedly stated the belief that vaccines cause autism.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/donal...017/01/trump-meets-robert-f-kennedy-jr-233417
Cringeworthy.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked vaccine doubter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to chair a “commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity,” Kennedy told reporters after a meeting in Trump Tower Tuesday.
Kennedy, who said he accepted the assignment, has been insisting for over a decade that traces of mercury in a preservative formerly used in childhood vaccines caused a massive increase in autism diagnoses. He has clung to the theory despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.
Kennedy and other vaccine skeptics have found a welcoming audience in Trump, who has repeatedly stated the belief that vaccines cause autism.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/donal...017/01/trump-meets-robert-f-kennedy-jr-233417
Cringeworthy.