The man suspected of opening fire and killing a police officer Friday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) building in Atlanta, Georgia had previously expressed anti-vaccine sentiments, according to multiple reports. Hours after the incident, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the suspected shooter as 30-year-old Patrick …
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A former top federal vaccine official spoke on the danger of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. giving “false hope” to people as the Health and Human Services secretary recently promised to identify the “cause” of autism by September. “There are people, probably, who are hearing me now who know that I …
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A second Texas child has died of a measles outbreak, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — infamous spreader of vaccine misinformation — reportedly plans to attend the funeral on Sunday. Axios first reported news of Kennedy’s trip to Texas, with NBC News later reporting that …
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As a mother of a 10-month-old infant, I worry a lot — about her sleep schedule, whether she’s eating enough, if she’s hitting her developmental milestones. What I didn’t expect to have to worry about as a parent in 2025 was measles, a preventable disease which was considered eliminated in …
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A school-aged child has died from measles amid an outbreak in West Texas, marking the first reported measles death in the U.S. in a decade. The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed Wednesday that a “school-aged child who was not vaccinated” had died after being hospitalized last week, the …
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A top anti-vaxxer has taken over Robert Kennedy Jr.’s campaign communications shop — underscoring the fringe, anti-science thrust of the independent candidate’s presidential bid. Del Bigtree leads the conspiratorial, anti-vaccine Informed Consent Action Network, which alleges (against substantial scientific evidence) that childhood vaccines cause autism, and that myriad vaccines — …
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Matthew Perry, who charmed audiences across the globe as the sarcastic roommate Chandler Bing on the popular sitcom Friends, was reportedly found dead on Oct. 28 at his Los Angeles home from an apparent drowning, law enforcement sources confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 54 years old. An LAPD spokesman …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., notorious purveyor of anti-vax conspiracy theories who claims he has “never been anti-vax,” believes that the media has “slammed” him more than Donald Trump. “It’s interesting tome because I’ve beenreallyslammedin away that I think isunprecedented, even more thanPresident Trump wasslammedbythe mainstream corporatemedia,” Kennedy said on Maria …
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Rage against Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates accelerated Ron DeSantis’ rise to the top of the Republican Party. It was supposed to be a key part of the governor’s plan to outflank Donald Trump in the 2024 primary. But here’s the problem: Republican voters, at this point, largely just don’t …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a panel of health misinformation superstars on Tuesday evening for a roundtable discussion that suggested his medical conspiracism will be a key component of his 2024 presidential run. During the unfiltered conversation, he falsely suggested that millions of deaths in the Great Influenza (or “Spanish …
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