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Over the last several weeks, the media has been hyper-focused on Epstein Files and the Trump administration, perhaps looming pardon of Gilae Maxwell and other stories.

But there's a really big story that we need to discuss. There are other things, terrible things happening right now that are really flying under the radar.

One of those is the destruction of science in America. RFK juniors, co-conspirators are gutting America scientific community and the ramifications will

really be felt for a long long time will be felt for decades I believe so here with me today

the authors of a fantastic and I have to admit frightening piece it's in mother Jones in its title

the plot against vaccines and it's Kira Butler's here and Anna Merlin. Thank you both for joining.

Thanks for having us. Thank you. Kira is a national correspondent at Mother Jones and Anna is a senior

reporter at Mother Jones. So you can, you ladies aside who you want to take this one, but I'd like

to start with the person you discuss at the top of your piece. And that is, I guess it was sort of the, I don't know, was it sort of the test case or the case that kicked this all off? And that's the, and that's Yates Hazelhurst. Am I correct with that? Yeah, it was one of the test cases. So the top of our piece talks about a little boy named Yates Hazlehurst, who in 2003, his family filed a lawsuit

with what's called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, basically alleging that

when Yates was a toddler and received an MMR vaccine, it had caused him to develop autism.

And if this sounds familiar, it's because it's a claim

that folks have made for years.

It's been pretty conclusively at this point disproven

that vaccines can cause autism,

but the Hazelhurst family and other families

sued through this federal program alleging

that that is what happened.

And it kicked off in the case of the Hazelhurst family litigation that has lasted for

about 22 years at this point and counting.

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