After saying that the Texas measles outbreak is ‘no big deal’, RFK Jr. tries to make amends with an opinion piece, but falls far short of an unflinching endorsement of vaccines and public health. This…
RFK Jr.’s dismissal of the Texas measles outbreak as “nothing to see here” was even more disheartening in that perhaps no one has contributed more to the perception that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is dangerous…
Because of the decades-long promotion that vaccines cause autism, children with autism and their healthy siblings have significantly lower rates of vaccination than other children, which does not decrease their chances of developing autism, but increases their…
A measles outbreak in Philadelphia in the early 1990s might be a window into the future.
The COVID pandemic provided an opportunity for anti-vaccine activists to expand their misinformation campaign. Who funds them?
Anti-vaccine activism has never had a particular political affiliation, but during the COVID pandemic, people were much more likely to be hospitalized and die from COVID if they lived in heavily red counties than in heavily blue counties.
