Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Response to “The Message of Measles”—What The New Yorker Wouldn’t Publish
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The New Yorker magazine article, The Message of Measles, begins with the following statement: “As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease,” then says “anti-vaxxers” are irrational since the risks of vaccines are so low and the rewards so enormous.
In his response to Mr. Paumgarten (which The New Yorker magazine refused to publish), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brings to light the science supporting the risk/reward assertion and rationally leads to the conclusion that government officials systematically obscure the risks while exaggerating the benefits of vaccines including the MMR.
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