When U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the respected Baton Rouge physician and longtime vaccine advocate admitted that the decision had been difficult.

Kennedy is well known for advocating policies that fall well outside mainstream medical thinking, particularly when it comes to vaccination.

But Cassidy said at the time he would consult regularly with Kennedy, and use his oversight authority as chair of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to “rebuff any attempts to remove the public’s access to lifesaving vaccines without ironclad, causational scientific evidence that can be defended before the mainstream scientific community and before Congress.” The senator also vowed to “carefully watch

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