Known for his anti-vaccine views and espousal of conspiracy theories, selecting Kennedy (RFK Jr) to be the US health secretary was like putting a Moon landing denier in charge of space exploration.
Despite pledging to “Make America Healthy Again”, a pun on the President’s slogan “Make America Great Again”, Kennedy is distorting policy and sacking dissenters in order to promote junk science.
The spark was when Kennedy announced that the new Covid-19 shots would be authorised but with severe restrictions limiting them to people 65 and older or who had risk factors for severe coronavirus disease, instead of everyone over six months old.
Jim O’Neill, a top aide and ally of RFK Jr, will temporarily lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the Director was fired. O’Neill, a former investment executive, has no scientific or medical background (Photo: Amy Rossetti/Department of Health and Human Services via AP)Her lawyers, Mark Zaid and Abbe David Lowell, said in a blistering statement: “When Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted.”
Four other top CDC officials quit including the Chief Medical Officer, Debra Houry and Demetre Daskalakis, the director of the National Centre for Immunis ation and Respiratory Diseases.
They aren’t quite right. What he is doing is far bigger than that.
Since he took office he has stuffed a critical vaccine approval panel with sceptics who have criticised coronavirus policies in the past.
During his tenure, the Department of Health and Human Services has haemorrhaged thousands of employees amid a brutal job cull that has drained morale and caused a brain drain that will hamper health policy for decades to come.
The disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield, whose infamous 1998 paper falsely claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism (Photo: Shaun Curry /AFP via Getty Images)Those comments led Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, a Democrat, to say: “Just shut up. Stop peddling b*******. You should be fired.”
Scientists have spent decades looking for the answer but after just six months of work, Kennedy claims to have beaten them to it.
As a parent of a child with special needs, I can tell you that parents I know with autistic children are utterly terrified about what this will mean.
And they fear their children will shun vaccines after hearing baseless stories that they caused their autism.
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Because of his platform, his nonsense will reach far beyond America and embolden vaccine sceptics and conspiracy theorists everywhere.
As children return to school, without vaccines they will be at greater risk of measles and whooping cough as well as other potentially fatal conditions.
Though the paper was withdrawn, Wakefield became a martyr for anti-vaccine lunatics like Kennedy, who see him as a hero.
For Wakefield, the health secretary’s work isn’t unhinged, which is how sensible-minded people see it: instead it will be the crowning glory of his life’s appalling work.
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