If you’d like to know where America is headed under the leadership of an anti-science conspiracy theorist like Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., consider this recent comment from the guy Kennedy picked to head up the federal vaccine advisory panel.

Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist and vaccine skeptic who pushed unproven treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic, said of the current surge of measles cases in America: “What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles, what is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?”

Oh, cool. So we’re lab rats for goofy science skeptics now?

Milhoan was speaking on the “Why Should I Trust You?” podcast. His enthusiasm about studying the real-world effects of a once-eradicated, deadly disease that’s now returning, thanks to vaccine skepticism, is certainly a choice. Personally, my choice would be to not scare parents away from safe and proven vaccines, thus not having to study how many kids wind up dying. But maybe I’m just an old-fashioned science believer.

U.S. measles cases in 2025 were the highest they’ve been since 1991. We eliminated measles in 2000, but now America is poised to lose its status as a measles-free........

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