RFK Jr.’s Tuskegee Experiment RFK Jr. recently directed the CDC to fund a study in West Africa that lays bare his cruelty and dishonesty. Paul Offit

https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-tuskegee-experiment?utm_source=Live%2BAudience&utm_campaign=f4f2b22b7f-nature-briefing-daily-20260123&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50432164 Trial is ‘exposing children needlessly’ Some scientists have argued the randomized nature of the trial puts babies at risk. Some will not receive an intervention that is known to be safe and life-saving (the World Health Organization recommends a first dose within 24 hours after birth) in a location where the risk of hepatitis B infection is high. Paediatrician Paul Offit, who pioneered a rotavirus vaccine, likened the trial to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study that misled Black participants and left them without treatment for decades.