People Are Accusing This Trump Official Of "Gaslighting" For His Comments About The Measles Vaccine

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But according to a statement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this illness (that astir radical my property antecedently lone knew from playing Oregon Trail) is definitelyyyy not coming backmost owed to a argumentation failure.

Well, yesterday, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, appeared connected CNN to speech astir measles and impulse parents to vaccinate their kids. But the erstwhile TV doc got immoderate pushback from big Dana Bash.

Bash asked Oz if measles is surging owed to the Trump medication "undermining enactment oregon advocacy for measles and different vaccines?"

Oz replied, "I don't judge so. We've advocated for measles vaccines each along. Secretary Kennedy has been astatine the precise beforehand of this movement..."

At which constituent Bash interrupted, saying, "Oh, travel on."

Undeterred, Oz continued, "He is. When the archetypal outbreak happened successful Texas. He said, 'Get your vaccines for measles,' due to the fact that that's an illustration of an ailment that you should get vaccinated against."

FYI, during the 2025 measles outbreak successful Texas, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came nether occurrence for promoting misinformation astir utilizing vitamin A to forestall measles, among different unproven treatments. He besides endorsed the measles vaccine, with the caveat that the prime to vaccinate is "a idiosyncratic one."

A small aboriginal successful the conversation, Bash called backmost to this caller tweet from Children's Health Defense, an enactment that RFK Jr. founded and chaired from 2015 to 2023:

She asked Dr. Oz if radical should fearfulness measles, and helium replied, "Oh, for sure." He went connected to say, "Take the vaccine, please. We person a solution for a problem. Not each illnesses are arsenic dangerous, and not each radical are arsenic susceptible to those illnesses, but measles is 1 you should get your vaccine."

Here's the clip:

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a effect of the medication undermining enactment for vaccines?

DR OZ: I don't judge so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines

BASH: Oh, travel connected pic.twitter.com/gCIMqIuN7I

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2026

CNN / Via Twitter: @atrupar

In response, radical are cheering for the infinitesimal erstwhile Dana Bash intelligibly had enough:

The connection "gaslight" definite keeps coming up.

People are besides calling retired different problematic "cures" Kennedy has endorsed, similar his recent unproven claim that eating a ketogenic fare could cure intelligence illnesses similar schizophrenia.

Meanwhile, existent doctors are urging radical to vaccinate their kids and sermon immoderate concerns they whitethorn person with their pediatricians.

So, yeah, I conjecture it's conscionable different time successful 1984... Oops, I mean 2026.

Let maine cognize what you deliberation successful the comments.

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