The U.S. has recorded more measles cases in seven months of 2026 than in all of 2025. The outbreak map traces directly to states that adopted RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies — and the federal apparatus that would normally respond has been restructured by the same ideological network that produced the cri
RFK Jr. is demanding that a scientific journal explain why it retracted a vaccine study he used to justify federal policy changes. The study was pulled for methodological failures. That sequence — policy first, retracted evidence second, pressure on the journal third — is the story.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, publicly blamed RFK Jr. for the resurgence of measles and whooping cough. It is the clearest Republican accountability for a public health failure that was entirely predictable — and one senator's X post is not the same thing as a consequence.
A ProPublica investigation documents rising measles and whooping cough rates in states that weakened vaccine requirements following RFK Jr.'s recommendations — a public health crisis the administration refuses to acknowledge.