US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will keynote a sold-out anti-vaccine conference in Washington DC hosted by Children's Health Defense, the organization he formerly led. He will appear alongside Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced former doctor whose fraudulent study falsely linked the MMR vaccine to autism. The event also features speakers like Sen. Ron Johnson and frames itself around the "health freedom movement."
Background
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. serves as US Health Secretary under the Trump administration, bringing long-standing anti-vaccine advocacy into a prominent government role. Andrew Wakefield's 1998 retracted study has been the cornerstone myth of the modern anti-vaccine movement despite being thoroughly debunked.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026 at 06:06 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10