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Outrage as CDC reportedly set to fund controversial vaccine trial
Original: Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/rfk-jr-s
Health officials are facing growing criticism over reports that the CDC is preparing to fund a vaccine trial that would deliberately expose babies to a deadly virus. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed for the study, which ethicists have labeled unethical. Critics say deliberately infecting infants crosses a moral line, and the reported funding plan has sparked condemnation from scientists and public health advocates.
Why now: Reports that a US government agency may fund a vaccine trial exposing infants to a deadly virus have sparked ethical outrage.
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- Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/rfk-jr-still-eager-to-fund-vaccine-trial-that-would-expose-babies-to-deadly-virus/ # Health # Science # Ethics · ars_technica@robot.villas · 4
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