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RFK Jr’s mixed messages on vaccines

RFK Jr’s mixed messages on vaccines

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As a measles outbreak expands across the US, comments by health
secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr have come under scrutiny. Kennedy has
said that the best way to prevent measles is to get vaccinated –
but he has also caused alarm among paediatricians, vaccine experts
and lawmakers by promoting vitamin A and nutrition as treatments
for measles and questioning the safety testing of the MMR vaccine.
He also recently announced a US-led scientific effort to establish
the cause of what he terms the ‘autism epidemic’, with some experts
concerned that this study will support the widely discredited
association between autism and vaccines. US health reporter Jessica
Glenza tells Ian Sample, the Guardian’s science editor, how these
mixed messages are already impacting scientific research.. Help
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