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Outgoing Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr as health secretary before speaking out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Republican senator Bill Cassidy \u2013 a medical doctor who voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist\u00a0Robert F Kennedy<\/a>\u00a0as federal health secretary in early 2025 \u2013 on Sunday denounced\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201ccrazy, stupid\u201d claims about the safety of the combined MMR vaccine for undermining faith in immunization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Trump recently ordered changes<\/a> to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule, with Kennedy by his side, the president called for two shots of the combined Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine to be scrapped in favor of two doses of three separate vaccines, claiming that the MMR shots are \u201csort of like a nuclear weapon\u201d that could be \u201cquite lethal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy, whose re-election bid ended in defeat to a Trump-backed challenger in a Republican primary in Louisiana, has been on the president\u2019s enemies list since 2021, when the senator voted to convict him of \u201cincitement of insurrection\u201d in connection with the US Capitol attack carried out by Trump supporters toward the end of his first presidency.

Asked about Trump\u2019s comment that \u201cnothing bad can happen\u201d from advising parents to get six separate shots for their children, instead of two, Cassidy told CNN<\/a> on Sunday: \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t so potentially tragic, you would break out laughing at a comment like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just take it from the perspective of the parent: now instead of going to the doctor twice to get their child vaccinated, they have to go six times. Instead of the child getting two jabs, they get six jabs,\u201d he continued. \u201cInstead of the insurance company paying for two doctor\u2019s visits, they\u2019re paying for six, which is going to ultimately drive up premiums \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo the president is wrong; there\u2019s a lot of bad things that will come out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy\u2019s critics have lambasted the outgoing senator for expressing misgivings about Trump\u2019s actions, including a recent shouting match over the ongoing Iran war \u2013 but continuing to cast crucial votes to confirm the president\u2019s nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cast the decisive vote on 8 August that allowed Todd Blanche \u2013 a former criminal defense lawyer for Trump \u2013 to secure Senate confirmation as US attorney general.

When Cassidy, the chair of the Senate health committee, previously announced<\/a> that he would vote to confirm Kennedy as health secretary, he acknowledged that \u201cthe most notable opponents of Mr Kennedy were pediatricians on the frontlines of our children\u2019s health who regularly have to combat misinformation; combating vaccine skepticism with correct information \u2013 correct information that comes from their education, training and experience as physicians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy<\/a> also revealed that he had extracted a promise from Kennedy, who has pushed the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism for decades, that \u201cCDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Kennedy became health secretary, however, the \u201cAutism and Vaccines\u201d page<\/a> on the CDC website was altered to undermine that scientific consensus. An asterisk was added to the headline \u201cVaccines do not cause Autism\u201d, which leads to a footnote pointing out that \u201cthe root causes of autism\u201d remain unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text was also added to the top of the same page, so that anyone who searches for CDC guidance on autism and vaccines is now presented with two \u201ckey points\u201d that further appease vaccine skeptics and conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe claim \u2018vaccines do not cause autism\u2019 is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,\u201d the first key point reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second addition, since one of the nation\u2019s leading anti-vaccine activists took charge, suggests that the lack of evidence for a link between vaccines and autism could be the result of a conspiracy. \u201cStudies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities,\u201d the CDC site now claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy on Sunday told CNN that Trump\u2019s\u00a0MMR<\/a>\u00a0commentary \u201cwill do nothing\u201d to address the discredited link between vaccine and autism stemming from a single paper that was ultimately retracted.

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