The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary said he needed to see data showing vaccines are safe, but when an influential Republican senator did so, he dismissed it.

Summary

During his Senate confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed scientific evidence on vaccine safety despite claiming he would follow the data.

He rejected studies debunking vaccine-autism links, downplayed COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, and avoided endorsing the HPV vaccine.

His remarks on racial differences in vaccination raised further concerns.

Lawmakers and health experts criticized his reliance on flawed research, warning his leadership could erode public trust and revive preventable diseases.

His confirmation remains contentious.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•6 hours ago

    the reason you have distrust from people at home and why they don’t believe anything you say and they don’t believe government at all is you’re telling my kid to take a Hepatitis B vaccine when he’s one day old. You get it through drug use and sexually transmitted. That’s how you get Hepatitis B, but you’re telling me my kid has to take it at one day old … that’s not science.

    The “That’s not science” kills me. Just because you don’t understand the science doesn’t mean it isn’t science.

    • @[email protected]
      7•5 hours ago

      Also, if you can get it through sex and IV drug use, you can get it through blood contact, which can happen in other ways. Why not protect against it? In case kids decide to become “blood brothers” or practice insufficient hygiene around other kids’ bloody noses or something

      • @[email protected]
        3•4 hours ago

        Considering how long it can take kids to both use a tissue properly and dispose of it properly, that can happen within the first hour at a daycare center.