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

Physician's Weekly

The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks. 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.

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

Physicians News Digest

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department. Now, the naysayers have triumphed.