Death is the policy

"Do your ain research," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents considering vaccination for their children during an 80-minute televised interview with Dr. Phil past week. He offered the loaded directive with immoderate of his go-to antivax falsehoods: communal shots are neurotoxic, the measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is "leaky," the MMR vaccine hasn't been adequately tested. In the mediate of a large U.S. measles outbreak, wherever 3 unvaccinated radical person died - 2 of whom were children - Kennedy continues to downplay the microorganism and refuses to archer the information astir lifesaving vaccines.

The basal strategy of his disinformation run is multibranching. In 1 of his ain published books, Kennedy indicates that helium does not judge successful germ theory, alternatively subscribing to a mentation of the abandoned 19th period conception that the "miasma" is the root of disease. He has historically profited from his "vaccine skepticism." And then, there's thing else: the taproot that reaches deepest into the American psyche and is echoed crossed the Trump administration's policies.

"It's very, precise hard for measles to termination a steadfast person," Kennedy falsely said during a March Fox Nation intervi …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.