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A visibly frustrated lawmaker tried to find out why Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has allegedly avoided legitimate public review of his policy decisions on vaccines.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, Kennedy's actions on vaccines since taking the helm of HHS, include launching a government study on autism "led by someone who has previously promoted debunked links between vaccines and autism; changing recommendations for COVID vaccines; and pulling back on vaccine research and development, such as canceling a contract with drug company Moderna to develop a new flu vaccine using mRNA technology, which was used to make COVID vaccines."

On Tuesday, Kennedy testified before the the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health....

A professor with the Yale School of Public Health claimed that Donald Trump is "destroying a generation of knowledge" just like Mao Zedong did during China's Cultural Revolution.

Gregg Gonsalves wrote for The Nation, "What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917."

He continued, "Just because this moment isn’t associated with the intense political bloodshed of those eras doesn’t make the comparison any less apt. In one way or another, the goal is to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions in the service of a radical ideology."...

Nearly one in five American teenage boys is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, marking a dramatic rise in the past decade, the New York Times reported on Monday.