Donald Trump has embraced the slogan MAHA — Make America Healthy Again — but his policies are doing exactly the opposite. Fears are growing in the medical world that his war on science and research will make America sicker, not stronger.

Trump’s latest target is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s premier public health agency. He fired the director, Dr. Susan Monarez, because she wouldn’t endorse the anti-science, anti-vaccine obsessions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services. Four other senior officials then quit in protest.

Kennedy is considered a quack by serious researchers who agree that vaccines are a safe, even miraculous, advance. “The World Health Organization, an agency with some of the most prominent medical experts around

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