If I have sounded like a broken record these past months, it is because these developments in American public health are as important as they are horrifying.
Gone is respect for the hard-earned body of knowledge developed over so many years by exhaustive trial and error, by continuous study, experimentation, and re-evaluation, honed by failure and followed by success.
Sadly, for the American people, whether it is something distorting his soul or his mind, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with his many anti-vaccination compatriots, has brought chaos and destruction to us all.
President Trump and his cohorts are determined to do away with the bedrock principles that underlie our democracy: due process and the presumption of innocence.
At last, a major institution in America is standing up to the bullying and extortion that seems to characterize every action of the Trump administration.
While Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the MAGA faithful will repeat again and again that their main goal is reducing waste and promoting efficiency, there are far more insidious motives at work.
As with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that childhood vaccines are more dangerous than the fatal childhood diseases they are designed to combat, that the Measles vaccine can cause autism, Trump’s gender war is yet another occasion where unsupported dogma contradicts medical and psychological experience.
It is one thing to ignore the easily found evidence of the effectiveness of vaccination, but it is incredibly worse and morally reprehensible to actively sabotage attempts to better protect the public from disease.
