President-elect Donald Trump asked Robert
F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist and
skeptic of vaccines, to chair a presidential
commission on vaccine safety, Kennedy said
Tuesday.
The two have questioned whether vaccines
cause autism, a claim consistently debunked
by medical professionals across the board.
The commission will be designed "to make
sure we have scientific integrity in the
vaccine process for efficacy and safety
effects," Kennedy told reporters after the
meeting with Trump.
Kennedy said Trump requested the meeting,
and the president-elect "has some doubts
about the current vaccine policies and he has
questions about it. His opinion doesn't
matter, but the science does matter and we
ought to be reading the science and we
ought to be debating the science."
Kennedy said Trump is "very pro-vaccine, as
am I," but wants to maker sure "they're as
safe as they possibly can be."
In March 2014 — before he became a
presidential candidate — Trump said on
Twitter: "Healthy young child goes to doctor,
gets pumped with massive shot of many
vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes -
AUTISM. Many such cases!"
China has agreed to invest in Nigeria following a visit from its foreign affairs minister to Nigeria - The country said this was in addition to earlier investments - Nigeria has withdrawn diplomatic relationship with Taiwan and agreed to the One China policy Wang Yi who is the Chinese foreign minister has promised that the country is investing $40 billion as part of the plan to deepen relationship with Nigeria. He made this comment during a press briefing with his Nigerian counterpart, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama on Wednesday, January 11 adding that this money was in addition to $22 billion projects already invested. READ ALSO: China might refuse to give Nigeria $20bn loan Yi said: “China has already invested or financed a total number of $22billion projects here in Nigeria, another $23billion projects are on-going. In addition, we are also following up another over $40billion of investments, which are in the pipeline.” China to invest in Nigeria; Taiwanese office
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