RFK Jr to research unsupported link between vaccines and autism, Trump says
by Robert Tait in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6ST7K)
President-elect boosts discredited claims peddled by his health secretary pick Kennedy in NBC interview
Donald Trump has said Robert F Kennedy Jr, his nominee for health secretary, may investigate a supposed link between vaccines and autism - despite a consensus among the medical establishment debunking any such connection.
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC, the US president-elect claimed an investigation was justified by the increasing prevalence of autism diagnoses among American children over the past 25 years.
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