Robert F. Kennedy JrThe lawyer of . has filed a petition to revoke polio vaccine. In filing his petition with the Food and Drug Administration, Aaron Siri argued that vaccines are dangerous. Like Kennedy, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Siri has a long history of fighting vaccines.
according to salonSiri has already submitted 13 more requests to stop more vaccines. Their requests include efforts to stop vaccines hepatitis B and COVID-19. Kennedy spoke in support of Siri when he recently appeared on The Highwire with Del Bigtree podcast
“I love Aaron Siri,” Kennedy said on the show, per Salon. “There is no one who has been a greater asset to the medical freedom movement than he.”
As conspiracy theorists continue their efforts to stop vaccines, scientists are fighting misinformation. In 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an investigation when a large number of polio cases emerged in a Hasidic Jewish community in Rockland County, New York, which is home to many anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. inform Salon.
Dr. Peter Salk expressed concern about ongoing conspiracy theories while speaking about the legacy of his late father, Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine in 1955. Speaking to Salon in 2023, Salk he said his father would be alarmed if he saw the spread of anti-vaccine theories in today’s world.
“His whole commitment was to protect the population from infectious diseases,” Salk said in an interview with Salon.
On Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren debunked Kennedy’s theories when she he tweeted“Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio: That’s what’s on the horizon if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes secretary of Health and Human Services.”
Siri and Kennedy partner with organizations that also agree with their conspiracies. One such organization is the Informed Consent Action Network, which supports the theory that vaccines cause autism and other health problems.
