On the campaign trail last October, President Trump promised to let his Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "go wild on health." A year later, that promise is being fulfilled.

Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, is unmaking federal immunization policy and running roughshod over decades of efforts to keep the anti-vaccine movement from sowing doubt over the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.

He has appointed a raft of anti-vaccine activists or critics to federal health positions, and prioritized research into finding any possible harm from vaccines, promoting some theories that have been long debunked.

Last week, anti-vaccine talking points were on full display during a meeting of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory g

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