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Their wordsIt suggests to me that CHD is the past and that more radical antivax groups are the present and the future, which is profoundly depressing to think about.
Their wordsSadly, though, his denials of being antivax fooled enough Senators-or at least gave them sufficient plausible deniability-to allow them to tell themselves that they were not confirming a nominee for HHS Secretary who would immediately start dismantling US federal health and vaccination programs, which is exactly what RFK Jr. immediately proceeded to do after being confirmed as HHS Secretary, almost exactly as I'd predicted that he would.
Their wordsIndeed, since taking over the reins of HHS, RFK Jr. has weaponized a funhouse version of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) paradigm against vaccines, misrepresented medical ethics to attack vaccines, dismantled the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), replacing the experts with antivaxxers, who immediately turned the committee into a clown car barreling through the vaccine schedule.
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