RFK Jr. may soon become health secretary, but Louisiana and other states are already passing anti-vaccine laws
by LFV Founder Jennifer Herricks, PhD, for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The anti-vaccine movement, long a coalition that existed on the political fringes, is witnessing a remarkable inflection point. First, pandemic-era anxiety gave activists, along with other science denying contrarians, a platform to elevate their complaints about vaccines and make them more mainstream. Now, after anti-vaccine groups have reaped a windfall of funding and attention, President-elect Donald Trump is nominating movement leaders to top positions in important federal public health agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
