This week, Canada officially lost its measles elimination status, which it held for nearly 30 years — a shameful consequence of falling childhood vaccination rates.

In the U.S., anti-vaccine and anti-science rhetoric continue to grow more deeply entrenched as the result of a years-long campaign by anti-vaccine activists, who once operated at the fringes of society. With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now leading the nation’s health agencies, they are emboldened to push their agenda even further.

Mark Gorton, president of the MAHA Institute, told an event earlier this month hosted by Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit organization Kennedy founded, that “I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message that we need to be more boldly anti-vax.”

Their strategy isn’t merely to sow doubt on

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