Is RFK Jnr right, should we be skeptical about vaccines?

OK, let’s start with the quick TL;DR; version — No, RFK Jnr is wrong about vaccine skepticism, he is a crackpot. I really should not need to publish any of this … but hey, for what are obvious reasons, here we are.

RFK Jnr has long deep dark history of promoting utterly absurd non-scientific BS. In his published book, he has literally hundreds of pages where he repeats a lot of HIV/AIDS denialism that is just factually wrong. He also has been a fanatical anti-vaccine advocate long before any of us had heard about COVID.

To be very very clear, the anti-vaccine stuff he comes out with is not scientific and has no credible evidence. We will get to debunking some of the popular myths shortly, but first permit me to spell it out with crayons.

What have Vaccines ever done for us?

There is rather robust evidence that vaccines have been the most successful medical intervention ever created by humans.

The abundance of evidence for this is right there, for anybody who cares to actually check.

Polio …