{"id":31831,"date":"2025-01-29T11:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/rfk-jrs-shifting-vaccines-stance-worries-experts-ahead-of-confirmation-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:25:41","slug":"rfk-jrs-shifting-vaccines-stance-worries-experts-ahead-of-confirmation-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/rfk-jrs-shifting-vaccines-stance-worries-experts-ahead-of-confirmation-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr\u2019s shifting vaccines stance worries experts ahead of confirmation hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-vaccine rhetoric has been a lucrative enterprise for RFK Jr \u2013 one he is now trying to distance himself from<\/p>\n<p>Anti-vaccine rhetoric and lawsuits were a lucrative enterprise for Robert F Kennedy Jr, leading up to his nomination to be secretary of health \u2013 one he is seeking to distance himself from as he enters confirmation hearings this week.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, he <a href=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/Presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/F3C8425ED335BB5685258C1A00565D57\/%24FILE\/Kennedy%2C%20Jr.%2C%20Robert%20F.%20%20finalEA.pdf\">promised to resign<\/a> from his consultancies and chairmanship of Children\u2019s Health Defense, a leading anti-vaccine nonprofit, if he is confirmed. That is cold comfort to public health experts anxiously eyeing his confirmation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/29\/rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-vaccine rhetoric has been a lucrative enterprise for RFK Jr \u2013 one he is now trying to distance himself from Anti-vaccine rhetoric and lawsuits were a lucrative enterprise for Robert F Kennedy Jr, leading up to his nomination to be secretary of health \u2013 one he is seeking to distance himself from as he enters &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr\u2019s shifting vaccines stance worries experts ahead of confirmation hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/rfk-jrs-shifting-vaccines-stance-worries-experts-ahead-of-confirmation-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr\u2019s shifting vaccines stance worries experts ahead of confirmation hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}