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What RFK Jr. Is Not Telling You About mRNA Vaccines and Their Safety.

The extraordinary true story of how mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives—and how America's top health official is now destroying the science that made it possible

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Joshua Powell
Aug 09, 2025
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This was originally published on LinkedIn in the Healthcare Writers Journal.

Authors Note: RFK Jr. and his conspiracy theorist experts should be providing this type of explanation along with references. They don’t because they can’t and continue to spread lies. So they choose not to share reference material and as we have all learned, when they have in the past is has been fake and inaccurate.

The scene was almost too perfect for Hollywood: In a gleaming Stockholm concert hall on December 10, 2023, Katalin Karikó stepped to the podium to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The 68-year-old biochemist, who had once been demoted and told to abandon her "worthless" research, was being honored for discoveries that made COVID-19 vaccines possible—vaccines that had already saved an estimated 19.8 million lives worldwide (Watson et al., 2022).

But 4,000 miles away in Washington, D.C., a different story was unfolding. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the conspiracy theorist and vaccine denie…

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