2: Make America Healthy Again? RFK Jr. and the Dangerous Vaccine-Autism Myth

The Baker Institute’s Kirstin Matthews and Rekha Lakshmanan join the podcast to discuss recent policy developments under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again commission, plus the persistent — and dangerous — misinformation linking autism with vaccines.

This conversation was recorded on Sept. 15, 2025. 

Featured guests:

• Kirstin Matthews, Ph.D., https://www.bakerinstitute.org/expert/kirstin-rw-matthews
• Rekha Lakshmanan, https://www.bakerinstitute.org/expert/rekha-lakshmanan

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