Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services, has voiced concerns regarding vaccine safety, asserting that current testing methods are inadequate. His advocacy for placebo-controlled trials for already-approved vaccines has been deemed unethical by experts, highlighting potential risks to public health. Kennedy's misleading claims linking vaccines to deaths and his intentions to reshape National Institutes of Health research towards vaccine safety generate concern among public health leaders, who worry about the implications of his beliefs in a position of power.
In his push for vaccine safety, Kennedy has repeatedly falsely linked vaccines to deaths without evidence, saying 'that's the danger of not having placebo-controlled trials.'
Kennedy vowed that if he won the presidency, he would 'reorient' National Institutes of Health research efforts to focus on vaccine safety, saying 'none of the childhood [vaccines] have ever been studied.'
Experts say placebo-controlled trials would be irresponsible to apply to most vaccines because it could deprive people of immunizations already proved to prevent infectious disease.
Kennedy's insistence that vaccines are not regulated adequately fits a broad pattern of his disparagement of them despite overwhelming scientific evidence.
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