One Year of RFK Jr.: Vaccinations Are Down, Measles Are up, Public Health Hangs in the Balance (Editorial)

Guest Opinion: After a year of RFK Jr., vaccination rates are down, measles are up, and public health hangs in the balance

Almost 250 years ago, George Washington created America’s first mass immunization mandate, relying on science to protect public health.

One year of RFK Jr.: vaccinations are down, measles are up, public health hangs in the balance (Editorial)

Almost 250 years ago, George Washington created America’s first mass immunization mandate, relying on science to protect public health. Oh, how times have changed. Back then, smallpox had just helped end the Continental Army’s invasion of Canada. Despite making it all the way to Quebec, thousands of soldiers contracted the disease. Washington feared the same would happen to his own troops, fresh from their surprise victories at Trenton and Princ…

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim

Ringo Chiu, Shutterstock, The UnPopulist illustrationSen. Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, chairs and is the face of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). A physician, Cassidy has been a vocal advocate of vaccines and even ran a vaccination campaign in his home state. “After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases,” Cassidy said in a speech, “I dedicated much of my time to vaccine research and…

RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Crusade Put Critical Program and Public Health In Danger

RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Crusade Put Critical Program and Public Health In Danger Ross Marchand March 2, 2026 This op-ed was originally published in the Washington Examiner.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is determined to expand his unprecedented assault on healthcare and patient choice. He’s already played dangerous games with vaccine access and ma…

One year of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary: The Lancet reacts, and so do I

Editors of The Lancet published an op-ed decrying RFK Jr.'s one year of failure at HHS. They're correct about RFK Jr, but they are not blameless in what has happened. The post One year of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary: The Lancet reacts, and so do I first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

EXCLUSIVE COMMENT: Concerns Raised Over RFK Jr’s Health Leadership – Dr Andrew Miller

Here is a transcript of Dr Andrew Miller’s weekly medical and news commentary during WAMN’s Sunday Broadcast. “Hi, thanks for your time. The last 12 months has been a roller coaster ride as far as the Trump administration is concerned, but for those of us in the medical field, the appointment of Robert F Kennedy as the health secretary has been far more devastating than even we suspected at the time. “He sounded reasonable going into the positio…