During Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s interview with Phil McGraw, better known as "Dr. Phil," on Monday, an audience member asked him how Kennedy would advise new parents on vaccine safety. "We live in a democracy," Kennedy said, "and part of the responsibility of being a parent is to do your own research. You research the baby stroller, you research the foods that they're getting, and you need to research the medicines that they're taking as well."
Kennedy’s advice to "do your own research" sounds superficially reasonable. But in the context of his longtime opposition to vaccines and the milieu of misinformation in which anti-vaxxers operate, it is a misleading and irresponsible mantra.
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