The Trump team said the meeting will be “on the subject of vaccines and immunizations.”
Kennedy, a longtime environmental activist and radio host, gained notoriety after a 2014 book called Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak, in which he argued that the mercury-containing compound, used as a preservative in flu vaccines, was linked to autism.
“There is no link between vaccines and autism,” the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) clearly states, echoing findings about the lack of a connection between vaccines and autism made repeatedly by major scientific and medical organizations worldwide.
“If vaccines become a political identity issue like climate change, then it’s not good for public health,” Saad Omer, associate professor of global health, epidemiology, and pediatrics at Emory University, told BuzzFeed News about public response to Trump’s meeting.
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