Junior Kennedy wants to bring back polio.

A key legal adviser to Robert Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, is at the center of efforts to push federal drug regulators to revoke approval for the polio and hepatitis B vaccines and block distribution of 13 other critical vaccines.

Aaron Siri, a lawyer who has been helping Kennedy select top health administrators as part of the Trump transition process, is deeply embedded in longstanding efforts to force the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to withdraw a raft of vaccines that have saved the lives and health of millions of Americans.

What more is there to say? Trump’s choice for health secretary wants to kill or maim thousand or millions of people.

Siri works closely with the Informed Consent Action Network (Ican), a “medical freedom” non-profit founded by Del Bigtree, whose has long waged war on vaccines including as producer of the anti-vaccination documentary, Vaxxed. The New York Times report noted that Siri filed the 2022 petition calling for the FDA to revoke approval for the polio vaccine on behalf of ICAN.

Poliovirus, the cause of a disease that used to be one of the most feared by Americans, has been eliminated from the country by the US through polio vaccines. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that the best way to avoid its return and keep people safe is through vaccination.

Polio wasn’t just “one of the most feared” diseases, it was one of the deadliest diseases. It was one of the most feared because it was so contagious and so terrible. The objective badness is much more to the point than how feared it was. Junior Kennedy fears vaccines, and he’s dead wrong to do so.

Trump said this week that Kennedy may investigate vaccines for a supposed link with autism.

That investigation has already been done. Many times, for many years. Nobody needs Junior Kennedy to “investigate” anything. The man’s an idiot.