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Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science
Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance
Guardian staff
Sun 20 Jul 2025 11.30 AEST
“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s School of Public Health.
That war appeared to enter a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science.
Kennedy abruptly cancelled a scheduled meeting of a key health care advisory panel, the US Preventive Services Task Force, earlier this month. That, combined with his recent removal of a panel of more than a dozen vaccine advisers, signals that his dismantling of science-based policymaking is likely far from over.
‘Making viruses great again’
“Do you enjoy getting sick from preventable diseases?” Arwa Madhawi asks in her Week in Patriarchy column. “Do you have a hankering to make once-declining viruses great again? If so, why not pop over to the US where the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and his anti-vaccine cronies are making a valiant effort to overturn decades of progress in modern medicine.”
Measles cases are at their highest rate in 33 years in the US, and while not entirely to blame, Trump’s officials don’t seem bothered. RFK Jr has downplayed the numbers. Kennedy has announced that the federal CDC will stop recommending Covid-19 booster shots for healthy children and pregnant women. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) said in a statement: “It is very clear that Covid-19 infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability”. Leading medical associations are suing the Trump administration as a result.
Two new surveys, published as a research letter in Jama Network Open, have found that only 35% to 40% of US pregnant women and parents of young children say they intend to fully vaccinate their child. That means the majority of pregnant women and parents don’t plan to accept all recommended kids’ vaccines.
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My view – from this and other sources – is that the man is a dangerous fool, who with Trump as president for the next few years could wreak havoc and terminally damage the US and Global public health systems.
He is a clear and present danger to many globally…
David.
2 comments:
Interesting viewpoint as western population health collapses but he is crazy? An important point is that no placebo controlled trials have been done on any vaccine and no long term trials so we just don't know. He has vowed to change that, which to my mind is a good thing. Covid vaccines are no longer recommended for < 18 in Australia either, as risk exceeds benefit (which is negative) Lots of excess mortality around the world currently, but to examine association with covid vaccines is heresy? Why is that?
I support most of the MAHA stuff, the survival of the west depends on reversing a disastrous decline in population health and birth rates.
Even batshit crazy can have one or two sparks, but the chap is just one of the old fashion nut jobs, every village had one, now with the internet the village idiots can join forces. The US needs help but not from these quacks and wannabe celebs.
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