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Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:55 PM Mar 31

RFK Jr. 'already vindicating his critics': Wall Street Journal

Source: The Hill

RFK Jr. ‘already vindicating his critics’: Wall Street Journal

by Joseph Choi - 03/31/25 5:17 PM ET

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. having served as Health and Human Services secretary for about a month and a half, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board said he is already “vindicating” his critics through his far-reaching actions.

In an editorial published Sunday, the Journal wrote that his recently announced plan of reducing the “bloated” Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by 20,000 jobs was not “radical.”

But the Journal’s board wrote that “what is disturbing are news reports that Mr. Kennedy has tapped David Geier, a longtime vaccine critic, to assist with a CDC study of vaccines and autism.”

“Mr. Geier has spent decades spreading the discredited theory, embraced by Mr. Kennedy, that thimerosal in vaccines causes autism and neurological damage in children,” the Journal wrote.

“Mr. Geier has also accused the CDC of concealing vaccine safety data ...

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5224015-kennedy-criticized-vaccines-wsj-editorial/

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FUCK WSJ Skittles Mar 31 #1
"Mr. Geier has spent decades spreading the discredited theory, embraced by Mr. Kennedy..." J_William_Ryan Mar 31 #2

J_William_Ryan

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2. "Mr. Geier has spent decades spreading the discredited theory, embraced by Mr. Kennedy..."
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 09:02 PM
Mar 31

Instead of jeopardizing the health and lives of Americans himself, Kennedy will just hire someone to do it for him.

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