Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote to Toxicology Reports’ editor in chief.
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The Health and Human Services secretary is asking a medical journal for more information on why it removed a published article that suggested a link between vaccines and infant deaths.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has made a career of repeating unsubstantiated allegations that vaccines cause harm, wrote last week to Toxicology Reports editor in chief Lawrence H. Lash, a Wayne State University pharmacology professor, asking about the removal. Kennedy then posted the letter on X this week.
“Americans have a right to know why scientific papers are removed, who made those decisions, what evidence supported them, and whether the same standards are applied consistently,” Kennedy wrote.
