Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent much of two Senate nomination hearings trying to convince members who will vote for his confirmation as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that he is not against vaccines, nor is he anti-science, but his history tells another story.
And for the most part Republicans, more than Democrats, appeared to take him at his word. Still, some