{"id":31973,"date":"2025-01-30T18:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/i-asked-you-a-simple-question-bobby-sanders-grills-rfk-jr-on-vaccines-and-autism-video\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T18:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:16:54","slug":"i-asked-you-a-simple-question-bobby-sanders-grills-rfk-jr-on-vaccines-and-autism-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/i-asked-you-a-simple-question-bobby-sanders-grills-rfk-jr-on-vaccines-and-autism-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I asked you a simple question, Bobby&#8217;: Sanders grills RFK Jr on vaccines and autism \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F Kennedy Jr avoided answering a question from the independent senator Bernie Sanders about whether he still believes vaccines cause autism despite extensive scientific evidence to the contrary. Speaking at a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee on Thursday, RFK Jr said he wouldn&#8217;t take office with any &#8216;preordained&#8217; beliefs and added that if he was shown studies dismissing a link he would accept that. In a Fox News interview in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6330950198112\">RFK Jr said he believed &#8216;autism does come from vaccines&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/30\/rfk-hhs-confirmation-hearing\">RFK Jr dodges clear answers on vaccines as Senate grilling enters second day<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2025\/jan\/30\/sanders-grills-rfk-jr-on-vaccines-and-autism-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F Kennedy Jr avoided answering a question from the independent senator Bernie Sanders about whether he still believes vaccines cause autism despite extensive scientific evidence to the contrary. Speaking at a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee on Thursday, RFK Jr said he wouldn&#8217;t take office with any &#8216;preordained&#8217; beliefs and added that &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;I asked you a simple question, Bobby&#8217;: Sanders grills RFK Jr on vaccines and autism \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/i-asked-you-a-simple-question-bobby-sanders-grills-rfk-jr-on-vaccines-and-autism-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;I asked you a simple question, Bobby&#8217;: Sanders grills RFK Jr on vaccines and autism \u2013 video\">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-31973","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\/31973","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=31973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}