Following meeting Dr Andrew Wakefield, and after having tweeted a strongly sceptical standpoint surrounding the safety of vaccines issued today, President-elect Donald J. Trump has allegedly, according to incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer, considered appointing prominent vaccine sceptic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to head a vaccine committee. Spicer stated that the two had discussed “the issues pertaining to vaccines and immunizations.”
After the meeting concluded, Kennedy told reporters that Mr. Trump had asked him to “chair a commission on vaccination safety and scientific integrity.”
Kennedy said he told Mr. Trump he would agree to chair such a commission, and that their meeting was held at Mr. Trump’s request.
Mr Kennedy, perhaps best known for being the son of the well-admired liberal advocate Sen. Bobby Kennedy, commonly known by his initials as RFK, has swung from environmental campaigning to focus on the dangers of vaccines in more recent times.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly shared his belief that there is a link between vaccines and autism, explaining the move to appoint Kennedy in such a position:
“I am totally in favour of vaccines,” Mr. Trump said in a 2015 GOP primary debate. “But I want smaller doses over a longer period of time. Same exact amount, but you take this little beautiful baby, and you pump–I mean, it looks just like it’s meant for a horse, not for a child, and we’ve had so many instances, people that work for me. … [in which] a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back and a week later had a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.” That kind of anecdote is near irrefutable by any sensible, reasonable person.
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