'Experts' Cited By RFK Jr. to Justify mRNA Vaccine Funding Cut Have Ties to Anti-vax Supplement Company [View all]

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Earlier this month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, announced that his department was cutting $500 million in funding to mRNA vaccine projects. While mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives through the COVID pandemic and earned its inventors a Nobel Prize in 2023, Kennedy has long opposed its use and peddled false claims about it. In support of the funding cut, the HHS website linked to a single piece of “evidence.”

The 181-page document, “COVID-19 mRNA ‘vaccine’ harms research collection,” which is hosted on an open website, is a bibliography of misrepresented studies—the overwhelming majority of which have nothing to do with the vaccines. It originally appeared in an independently published 2024 anti-vax book “Toxic Shot: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines,’” according to its opening page.

Co-authored by Canadian immunologist Bryan Bridle, a professor at a veterinary college in Ontario and one of the authors on the bibliography, the book featured a foreword from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Naomi Wolff—both of whom have promoted conspiracy theories about the mRNA vaccines.

Bridle made headlines in 2022 when he sued his university for $3 million, alleging he faced online harassment and censorship pressure after speaking out about shortcuts in the development of mRNA vaccines. He dropped his suit last November. Today, he is an “international fellow” at the Independent Medical Alliance, a fringe medical group in Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement known for promoting the use of ivermectin as a treatment for a range of maladies including COVID, against which it is not effective.

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