RFK Jr. ‘already vindicating his critics’: Wall Street Journal

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. having served arsenic Health and Human Services caput for astir a period and a half, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial committee said helium is already “vindicating” his critics done his far-reaching actions.

In an editorial published Sunday, the Journal wrote that his precocious announced program of reducing the “bloated” Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by 20,000 jobs was not “radical.”

But the Journal’s committee wrote that “what is disturbing are quality reports that Mr. Kennedy has tapped David Geier, a longtime vaccine critic, to assistance with a CDC survey of vaccines and autism.”

“Mr. Geier has spent decades spreading the discredited theory, embraced by Mr. Kennedy, that thimerosal successful vaccines causes autism and neurological harm successful children,” the Journal wrote.

“Mr. Geier has besides accused the CDC of concealing vaccine information information and claimed that amended nutrition and hygiene—not vaccines—are liable for the disappearance of deadly infectious diseases,” they added. “If Mr. Kennedy genuinely wants an independent, impartial reappraisal of vaccine data, Mr. Geier is the incorrect antheral for the job. The study’s results look preordained.”

The Journal’s committee expressed concerns that Kennedy’s actions would effect successful a encephalon drain astatine HHS, citing the abrupt departure connected Friday of Peter Marks, who led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).

They further wrote that hopes among Senate Republicans that different Trump appointees similar Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary would support Kennedy successful cheque person not panned out, noting that grants involving mRNA exertion are present required to beryllium straight reported to Kennedy’s office.

“Mr. Kennedy rightly criticized the Biden Administration’s Covid responses for ignoring science, but helium won’t reconstruct nationalist assurance if helium feeds skepticism astir vaccines that person saved countless lives,” they wrote. “Our worst fears astir Mr. Kennedy are coming true.”

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