Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a win to his anti-vaccine supporters on Thursday by reviving a task force meant to scrutinize childhood vaccines for safety.

The move to restore the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines comes days after Kennedy Jr. was rebuffed by a major medical journal over his demand that a study confirming the safety of childhood vaccines be retracted.

It also comes less than a week after a man who blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed killed a police officer outside the CDC’s headquarters in a shooting. Kennedy Jr. was slow to respond to the news of the shooting and only visited the location three days after the attack.

In an announcement on the Department of Health and Human Services website, the mission of the task force was described as “[impro

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