RFK Jr. Courts Vaccine Skeptics at Conference Promoting Vaccine Misinformation

In a moment that marks a striking departure from the traditional role of the nation's chief health steward, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before a gathering of vaccine skeptics this week, offering them not merely his presence but his allegiance. The event, held amid a broader cultural reckoning over scientific authority and public trust, featured claims that decades of vaccine science—including the near-eradication of polio—constitute deliberate deception. When the person charged with safeguarding the public's health lends legitimacy to ideas that public health institutions h