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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox

ideas and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this week's episode.

To hear the full episode, and to get access to all our podcasts and articles,

visit us at quillette.com and click the subscribe button. And this week we'll be talking about a

timely subject, vaccines. I say timely because in recent days, we've seen U.S. Secretary of

Health and Human Services, RFK Jr. and

his government allies take aggressive steps to discredit immunization treatments that offer proven,

often life-saving benefits.

This included revisiting the debunked idea that vaccines are linked to autism, limiting COVID

vaccine availability among Americans who

aren't senior citizens, stacking advisory committees with fellow vaccine skeptics, and in the case

of one of those skeptics, raising dubious concerns about effective new immunization treatments

that have already begun to protect young children from the effects of RSV.

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