Beneath the day-to-day action of the Trump administration, with chaos and confusion taking up all of our attention, there are elements of the new Make America Great Again coalition that are barely holding together. The ultimate example comes from Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sparked fury among his supporters for (mostly) telling the truth about measles.
Now, Kennedy is known for many things, including hosting a parasitic brain worm, dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park, and being blamed for driving his second wife to suicide. But he is best known for being the nation’s most prominent “vaccine skeptic” or “anti-vaxxer,” depending on whom you ask.
His decades of profitable advocacy against vaccines included likening an “autism epidemic”
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