To understand why Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking the hepatitis B vaccine, look to the rhetoric coming from his loudest fans in the anti-vaccine movement. According to the misnamed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, the only women who get hepatitis B are filthy degenerates. Jillian Michaels, the former reality TV star-turned right-wing demagogue, declared last year that the hepatitis B vaccine is only useful for “drug addicts and people who have risky sex.”

“Are we protecting them for a lifetime of unprotected sex and drugs?” a popular MAHA advocate complained on X, apparently thinking it’s self-evident that that such protection is unnecessary for good people. A favorite anti-vaccine podcaster tweeted that hepatitis B is a disease of people

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