Health officials in Trump administration were accused of fueling ‘crisis of public trust’ over autism and vaccines

Misinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a recently released report.

Experts say that officials in the past year have focused intently on both vaccines and autism, including efforts to connect autism to the use of acetaminophen (frequently sold as Tylenol) during pregnancy, despite growing evidence of no link, and replacing all members of the federal autism committee with advisers who have anti-vaccine and pseudoscientific histories.

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      1 day ago

      You don’t know me. You don’t know who I am or what I do.

      But yes, my fellow citizens are not standing up enough. In fact, a ton of my local community strongly approves of what’s happening. They will gladly watch their friends and family dragged away.

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      Oh they’re fighting back, all right. Their fighting is downvoting Lemmy comments critical of their apathy and hoping that the next election makes a difference, even though they won’t actually show up and vote themselves for reasons.