Reacting to a New York Times report that a lawyer representing Robert. K. Kennedy Jr. has asked the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle angrily called out the potential Donald Trump Cabinet member.
With Kennedy selected by the president-elect to head up the Department of Health and Human Services despite having no expertise in the sciences, Barnicle recalled growing up in a time when polio was a scourge that crippled countless children.
With the Times reporting that RFK Jr. attorney Aaron Siri has been waging war against vaccines for years, and is now actively advising Kennedy on staffing his department should he pass Senate approval, Barnicle launched into a diatribe.
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"I went to grammar school with kids who came to the same grammar school classroom I sat in who were wearing braces and sticks to carry them through the day, to walk, they had polio," the 81-year-old Barnicle told the panel.
"The idea that we're going to eliminate that Salk vaccine and take a look at vaccines that all infants and children get to prevent measles and other really radical diseases that could cause harm to them, the idea that we're talking about eliminating them based upon the quackery of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. –– and it is quackery –– and he is a very smart guy and he ought to know better but he clearly doesn't know better."
"But the idea that we're still seriously talking about eliminating vaccines for many children is almost beyond belief," he added.
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