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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

In a 2005 article for Rolling Stone that was later retracted, Kennedy claimed government officials had buried data showing a link between vaccines and autism, The Wall Street Journal said. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. The final findings were published in 2003.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

At their first meeting with the leadership of AHRQ last month, officials from Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency said that they didn’t know what the agency did — and that its budget would be cut by 80% to 90%, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting who were granted anonymity because of fears of retribution.