The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board ripped into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over “disturbing” new reports that he pushed out a top vaccine expert and instead tapped an anti-vax lawyer to lead a national study on vaccines and autism.
On Wednesday, news broke that Kennedy had appointed David Geier—who doesn’t even have a medical degree—to oversee a new study commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) searching for a link between autism and vaccines. In 2012, Maryland’s state Board of Physicians disciplined Geier with a $10,000 fine for practicing medicine without a license.
Geier has long peddled the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism and neurological damage in children. He has written dozens of studies claiming to have found a link, none of which passed legal or scientific muster, according to the Journal.
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