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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines ...

Martin Wittenberg and Andrew Kerr School of Economics and DataFirst, University of Cape Town Abstract: In this paper we deal with some of the criticisms levelled at us and DataFirst. We also produce ...