From wellness influencers worried about Wi-Fi to crypto enthusiasts trading peer-to-peer coins, the CHD [Children’s Health Defense] conference offered something for everyone in the room. The campaign against vaccines, though, took center stage. As a pro-vaccine clinician, I was an outlier ….
Children’s Health Defense is less than a decade old, and this year’s conference was the first since the organization’s founder and former chairman Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm as secretary at Health and Human Services. And while Kennedy goes to great lengths to convince a worried public that he isn’t an anti-vaxxer …, no such mealy-mouthed equivocation was on offer here.
Even as we watch the almost daily destruction of health institutions in the U.S., this weekend was a reminder that we mustn’t underestimate the threat a movement like CHD represents. For the scientists and officials they accuse of causing an endless litany of health harms, there were no olive branches on offer, only the threat of orange jumpsuits and prison time.
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