RFK’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Shot Is Ripping the Anti-Vax World Apart

In the anti-vaccine world, few immunizations are as demonized as the measles, mumps, and rubella or MMR shot. For years, vaccine “skeptics” have falsely claimed that the MMR vaccine causes autism, or sickens children with the very diseases it protects them against. But this week, the anti-vax world faced a reckoning when Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine activists, wrote an op-ed for Fox News calling for MMR vaccines to be “readily accessible for all those who want them” amid an ongoing and sometimes fatal measles outbreak in Texas and other states.