Yves here. Articles like this drive me crazy. The efforts to shore up a discredited medical orthodoxy, here with vaccines, demonstrates in a pet peeve cognitive bias, that of black and white thinking.

It is undeniable that RFK, Jr. getting a much bigger platform thanks to his Presidential campaign and now his role as head of HHS, has played a big role in the dangerous decline in vaccination, particularly among the young. However, the fact that RFK, Jr. is dangerously wrong with his measles vaccine alarmism and his doubling down on the bogus claim that it causes autism does not mean that all the vaccines being pushed onto patients are warranted….as this article tacitly assumes.

In general, American medicine has a strong, money-driven propensity to overtesting and overtreatment. Vaccines are one example. And that’s before getting to the ginormous controversy about Covid vaccine injuries, which are a legitimate cause