Commentary: Trump's new orders on child vaccines are even more dangerous than they seemed at first

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Set us as preferred No one can claim to have been surprised by the executive order President Trump issued Monday calling for a radical transformation of childhood vaccination practices in the U.S.After all, Trump has been beating the anti-vaccination drum for years.His secretary of health and human services, Robert F.

Kennedy Jr., is an established anti-vaccine activist.Trump himself has been an almost limitless fount of misinformation and disinformation about medicine, promoting useless nostrums against COVID-19 such as hydroxychloroquine, pondering whether ingesting bleach would kill the virus and questioning whether expectant mothers should take Tylenol.I’ve seen proof where they have a vaccination that looks like the size of a bottle of soda, poured into a little child’s body, and bad things happen.— President Trump fabricates a yarn about childhood vaccinationsMonday’s executive order marks a new phase in his battle against public health.The order is tantamount to a one-stop shop offering all the common anti-vaccine tropes claiming that America’s children have been overwhelmed by excessive immunizations — a multivalent injection of fact-free claptrap, if you wish.

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You agree that we and our third-party vendors may collect and use your information, including through cookies, pixels and similar technologies, for the purposes set forth in our Privacy Policy such as personalizing your experience and ads.The tsunami of fabricated claims in the order and voiced by Trump and others at the Oval Office announcement Monday is almost overwhelming.If there’s a saving grace in this episode, it’s that most states and the vast majority of parents are likely...