Trump Taps Vaccine Skeptic to Chair 'Committee on Vaccine Safety'
The move is merely the latest in Trump’s dance with the anti-vax community.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and activist, who also happens to be an outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist. After the meeting, Kennedy told reporters it went “very well,” and said that Trump “asked me to chair a commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity.” He also said that Trump called him to ask for the meeting.
Trump’s transition team did not respond to a question asking for confirmation in 2005, and published about it in 2014. Scientists have found no evidence that thimerosal in vaccines causes any harm, and furthermore, it hasn’t been used in vaccines for children since 2001, with the exception of the flu vaccine.
