https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/15/robert-kennedy-vaccines-public-health/

«So if it’s a choice whether to trust my health to experts who might recommend a somewhat suboptimal vaccination schedule to score political points[*], or to experts selected by a guy who has casually suggested that the polio vaccine has killed more people than polio, well, that’s not a hard decision. And it shouldn’t have been hard for Republicans to spare us that decision, either. Instead they made the same mistake as that ACIP committee, only more so [emphasis mine]: They let politics get in the way of the job they’d been given by the American public.»

\*Not sure I’d use the phrase “political points” here; smacks of false balance. And there’s a lot that goes into deciding an entire society’s vaccine schedule. I wonder if ethicists were present at that meeting, and, if not, what they would say. Anyway, there were other factors than saving lives that went into that decision, and it did not come out popular or easily explainable.

And after all that: anti-vaxxers are still scared of needles.