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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Disinformation and Defunds Critical Public Health Research
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Interview with Dr. Kristen Panthagani, a scholar with the Yale Emergency Scholars (YES) Program, completing an integrated emergency medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication, conducted by Scott Harris.
"The views expressed in this interview belong to Dr. Panthagani and do not necessarily reflect the views of Yale University or Yale New Haven Hospital."
Dr. Kristen Panthagani discusses criticism of Trump-appointed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s spread of disinformation about the safety of vaccines, promotion of bogus “cures” for the growing measles epidemic, regressive rhetoric about people suffering from autism, the mass firing of federal research scientists and budget cuts ending research into Alzheimer’s and cancer.