In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.

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    Ah yes, the well known scientific method of rejecting findings that don’t support your hypothesis.

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      He claims to have doubts about the study’s methodology. But he has no science education, so he’s not qualified to judge that.

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        I have no formal science education besides college electives, but the methodology looks fine to me.

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      “I reject your reality and substitute my own”, but in a way that’s cruel and tragic instead of cheeky and fun