Robert Kennedy Jr. says he will chair "vaccination safety" committee for Trump

[herding cats]

President-elect Donald Trump met with Robert Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic, on Tuesday. According to incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer, the two discussed “the issues pertaining to vaccines and immunizations.”

After the meeting concluded, Kennedy told reporters that Mr. Trump had asked him to “chair a commission on vaccination safety and scientific integrity.” Kennedy said he told Mr. Trump he would chair such a commission, and that their meeting was held at Mr. Trump’s request.

Kennedy, the eldest son of liberal icon Sen. Robert Kennedy, was best known as an environmental advocate before increasingly devoting his time to the supposed dangers of vaccines.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly shared his belief that there is a link between vaccines and autism.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-meets-with-vaccine-skeptic-robert-kennedy-jr/

I don't know how much power Trump can actually wield on this issue, but that he's giving it a new surge of legitimacy is terrifying enough.

[Freethinker65]

1. So much for public health

[SylviaD]

2. RFK, Jr???

Why is he getting entangled with Trump?

[herding cats]

7. He's an anti-vaxxer

He's dyed in the wool believer of all the BS about how vaccines cause autism.

[SylviaD]

21. ..and he is willing to throw in with Trump just to...

...advance his own petty agenda?? So disappointed.

[MFM008]

3. This is

Sad and sickening.

[otohara]

4. What I Would Given For A Polio Vaccine

but no .... I had to miss it by a few months and got mocked by MEN like Donald Trump into my late twenties.

This is sad - people who are anti-vaxx will slather themselves in scented cleaning/beauty products &Spray Febreze around their homes.

[COLGATE4]

12. My best childhood friend and I just got the Salk when it

came out - his year-older brother missed it and would up with a paralyzed leg (and heavy, clunky braces for years). It's criminal that Kennedy would lend his name and prestige to a dishonest game of scientific woo.

[still_one]

5. This and his HHS director Tom Price they can all go to hell

[MineralMan]

6. What a maroon. I guess the smart skipped a generation.

BWT, did you know that RFK was the reason the anti-nepotism law was passed back in 1967?

[herding cats]

8. I did know that about RFK.

The law is even still occasionally referred to as the Bobby Kennedy Law.

Thanks for the timely reminder!

[JHan]

9. The Era of Woo...

"Destroy the Establishment" = getting rid of all the people with expertise in Washington, replacing them with friends and family, and this idiocy.

[DonCoquixote]

10. Gee I wonder how long it is

for Jill Stein to get invited invited to this shindig.

[Johonny]

11. Speaking of people wasting their life on pointless BS

[mopinko]

13. he thinks it looks oh, so good to have a kennedy on the payroll.

you would think by now he would have some defenses against people just wanting to cash in on his name.
but apparently not.

btw, he is also an rt star.

[Oneironaut]

14. The lunatics have escaped the padded rooms and are in the control room.

I look forward to the committee on how the moon landings were fake, and funding to prove to prove that the earth is indeed flat.

[Historic NY]

15. He has experience with drugs...is that the qualifier.

[sheshe2]

16. Wow good job...

This is a whole new day for us this is the dumbing down of the White House.

[alarimer]

17. Make Measles Great Again.

This is disgraceful.

[fishwax]

18. ugh. what a disgrace.

[PlanetBev]

19. My mother got polio in 1951 Los Angeles

Piece of luck me, my sister and father didn't get it. My mother eventually recovered, but someone down the street died and someone else ended up on an iron lung.

Thank goodness for Dr. Salk.

[progressoid]

20. One of my favorite college profs had it as a child.

In her final years, the effects severely affected her mobility. It was a difficult end for her.