"Kennedy has long spoken with disturbing disgust about autistic people, claiming at one press conference that autistic children destroy families and will never pay taxes. They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date."
"In June, he fired every member of the advisory committee on immunization practices, an influential group of vaccine experts whose recommendations had long shaped policy for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In place of the experts, he reconstituted the panel with a number of vaccine critics and cranks, whose incompetence has led to chaotic meetings and bizarrely changing vaccine recommendations."
"Donald Trump has recently joined his health secretary in casting aspersions on childhood vaccines safe and effective treatments that have saved countless lives and are among the more wonderful miracles of human innovation. It's too much liquid, the president said of the early childhood immunizations on Monday. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing, when you look at it."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr pursued claims linking a single pharmaceutical cause to autism and targeted common pain relievers taken during pregnancy. He expressed demeaning views about autistic people and pledged to identify a single cause. Kennedy moved to restrict vaccines, firing the advisory committee on immunization practices and replacing experts with vaccine critics, producing chaotic meetings and shifting recommendations. Donald Trump echoed skepticism of childhood immunizations and questioned their volume, while the administration discouraged pregnant women from taking an over-the-counter medication to ease pain or reduce fevers. Public-health expertise and vaccine confidence have been undermined.
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