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In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.

Aaron Siri, a conspiracy theorist like Kennedy, has also filed a petition to stop distribution of 13 other vaccines

French painter who wrote about her relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso in a bestselling book

The French-born Françoise Gilot had long made her frustration clear that despite acclaim for her art she would still be best known for her relationship with the older Picasso.

An accomplished painter and memoirist, French artist became a social celebrity for her romantic relationship with Picasso

When Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was found to be safe and effective in 1955, following a successful trial involving nearly two million American children, it marked a turning point in the fight against a highly infectious disease causing incurable paralysis or even death. Prior to Salk's discovery, between 25,000 and…

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For most of humanity’s existence, most of us were all on the same team when it came to eradicating deadly diseases.

Unlike COVID-19, vaccinations for polio are nearly ubiquitous. Could an outbreak actually happen again?