In his first Senate confirmation hearing to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated claims we have written about before on vaccines and chronic disease.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worked strenuously Wednesday to clarify his views on vaccines after a top Democrat challenged him on past statements and actions that seemed to suggest he was a blanket opponent of shots.

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Kennedy claimed he is not against vaccination, contrary to decades of public comments.

If confirmed by the Senate to be the nation’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have vast powers over immunization policies for children and adults.

For the first time in modern American history, a skeptic of medical research could be responsible for safeguarding public health.

The likely next secretary of Health and Human Services scared me with a cruel and misleading statement—and that’s the danger he poses to parents everywhere.

Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, brought up the Children’s Health Defense, which is the organization Mr. Kennedy co-founded that has spread falsehoods about vaccinations for children, pulling up images of onesies sold by the nonprofit that read “Unvaxxed, Unafraid” and “No Vax, No Problem.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the nation’s top health official is uncertain after a key Republican joined Democrats to raise persistent concerns over the nominee’s deep skepticism of routine childhood vaccinations that prevent deadly diseases.

Past statements attributed to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding vaccine safety were in focus Wednesday during his confirmation hearing to become the top health official in the United States.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former presidential candidate and environmental activist, endorsed Donald Trump last year and threw his weight behind a campaign to “Make America Healthy Again.” For the past two decades he has been best known for airing skeptical views on vaccines.