From the BBC coverage: > Kennedy has also alarmed some over his hiring of David Geier, who has been described by some as a conspiracy theorist, to research vac

From the BBC coverage: > Kennedy has also alarmed some over his hiring of David Geier, who has been described by some as a conspiracy theorist, to research vaccines and autism, and on Thursday Democrats in the US House of Representatives wrote to HHS "to express our urgent concern" over the selection of "a biased and discredited individual". > Geier is a leading vaccine sceptic who was fined by the state of Maryland for practicing medicine without a medical degree or licence and prescribing dangerous treatments to autistic children. I think it was this guy, or his dad who was also a kook doctor, that was giving puberty blockers to autistic kids without their parents' knowledge or consent, which is a wild coincidence given other recent culture war controversies about that medication.