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Kennedy Nukes the Vaccine Narrative

... and Trump launches his own discount pharmacy (spoiler: It's a bait-and-switch)

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Jenna McCarthy
Oct 01, 2025
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Remember at last month’s contentious Senate Finance Committee hearing—when Senator Maria “I Want All the Jabs” Cantwell proudly whipped out her dusty How Vaccines Helped All But Eradicate Diseases (that’s the actual title) chart before calling RFK Jr. a charlatan and insisting that “the history on vaccines is very clear?” Well, the HHS secretary just dropped a seven-minute demolition of her “vaccines did all the work” graphic and I have to say, it is glorious. Of course, the second he said, “gold-standard science” and “vaccine injuries,” half the internet reached for their favorite Iron Lung JPEG like it was an EpiPen. You could practically hear the keyboards clackety-clack-clacking:

“HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ABOUT POLIO?”

An angry Ms. Cantwell and her janky chart.

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