Hi, everyone, happy Friday. It's 4 o'clock in New York, just days before Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., heads to Capitol Hill to kickstart his confirmation process. Brand new reporting

reveals that one of his AIDS has been waging war against one of the miracles of modern

medicine, the polio vaccine. New York Times is reporting this today, quote, the lawyer helping

RFK Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration

has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. That campaign is

just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.

In fact, Aaron Siri is a critical player in the

anti-vax movement, or what RFK calls the medical freedom movement. New York Times adds that

Siri is representing a group in, quote, petitioning the FDA to pause distribution of 13 other

vaccines, including combination products that cover

tetanus, diphtheria, polio, and hepatitis A until their makers disclose details about aluminum

and ingredient researchers have associated with a small increase in asthma cases. Before we go any further, we should be crystal

clear in stating the established facts and science. Siri is fighting to revoke use of vaccines

that save lives. That's it. Full stop. On the polio vaccine, the CDC says that just since 1988,

quote, an estimated 20 million people who would have been paralyzed by the disease are walking and more than 1.5 million lives have been saved.

Prior to the vaccine, the World Health Organization says that a half a million people were killed or paralyzed by polio every single year.

But since we're doing this, the second Trump administration, for them, those facts, that history that established science around vaccines appears to be going by the wayside already. New York Times reporting this,

quote, Kennedy has privately expressed interest in having Siri serve in the Health and Human Services

Department as in the top legal job as the general counsel. Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Kennedy,

said Mr. Siri has been advising

Kennedy. Now, should RFK be confirmed by the United States Senate, all signs point to an HHS that is a

dramatic departure from every previous administration, be it Republican or Democratic. An op-ed in the

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