"Since taking office, Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the health and human services department (HHS) has undermined vaccines at every turn. He has dismissed the entire CDC vaccine advisory panel, narrowed access to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines, filled scientific advisory boards with conspiracy theorists and fired the newly appointed CDC director for refusing to rubber-stamp his actions. But his rejection of vaccines is only part of the problem."
"Secretary Kennedy is unfit to be our nation's leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern science. For generations, doctors have agreed that germs like bacteria or viruses cause infectious diseases. In the 1850s, John Snow, known as the father of epidemiology, traced a cholera outbreak in London to water contaminated with human waste not the bad air, or so-called miasma, that many at that time believed to be the cause."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as secretary of Health and Human Services, has undermined vaccines by dismissing the CDC vaccine advisory panel, narrowing access to COVID-19 vaccines, appointing conspiracy theorists to scientific boards, and firing a CDC director who refused to rubber-stamp his actions. He rejects fundamental principles of modern science and challenges germ theory. Historical examples demonstrate germ theory’s impact: John Snow traced cholera to contaminated water; Louis Pasteur’s anthrax vaccine experiment proved immunization’s effectiveness; Ignaz Semmelweis promoted handwashing; Joseph Lister introduced sterilization; Florence Nightingale improved hospital hygiene; Pasteur developed pasteurization, all saving millions of lives.
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