Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
Source: New York Times
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
In an interview posted online last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, offered unorthodox, and at times contradictory, messages on vaccination. Eric Lee/The New York Times
By Teddy Rosenbluth
March 10, 2025
Updated 8:14 p.m. ET
In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments.
He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research.
He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research.
He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved “almost miraculous and instantaneous” recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.
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Teddy Rosenbluth is a health reporter and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers. More about Teddy Rosenbluth
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
It is unclear [LOL} whether U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has long promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in the planned CDC study or how it would be carried out. The CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services were not immediately available for comment.
Teach the controversy! (Said controversy is solely a product of the fact that a lunatic conspiracy theory that got its start from a conscious scientific fraud, carried out for money, isn’t recognized as such by people lacking either the desire or the ability to think, or both.)
Four years of this.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/heroin-you-had-one-job
and I read here today that the USDA just cut funding for schools to buy healthy local food... this is all madness 
