Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) wouldn't let anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off the hook on Thursday after he gave an evasive answer to one of his questions.
During Kennedy's confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump's secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, Cassidy asked Kennedy whether he would assure parents that they could safely vaccinate their children against measles and hepatitis B without the risk of it causing autism.
"Senator, I am not going into the agency with any..." Kennedy began.
"That's a yes or not question," Cassidy interrupted. "Because the data is up there. That's kind of a yes or no. I don't mean to cut you off but that really is a yes or no."
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Kennedy replied that he would recommend the vaccines for measles and hepatitis B "if the data was there."
Cassidy, a former physician, then informed Kennedy that he used to perform hepatitis B vaccinations on patients and told him, "I know the data is there."
In fact, the hepatitis B vaccine has been around for nearly 40 years and no study has shown any link between it and autism.
Kennedy in the past has not only linked vaccines to autism but has even gone so far as to say, "There is no vaccine that is... safe and effective."
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