That the president is ready to stand by his decision irrespective of how much it flies in the face of the information we currently know to be medically sound and reasonable is hardly surprising. The intensity with which he and RFK Jr. appear to be fixating on finding an “answer” to autism, however, is concerning to many.

That includes former president Barack Obama, who yesterday claimed that the current administration’s new proposal posed a threat to public health.

“We have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved,” Obama said during an interview at the O2 Arena in London. “It undermines public health … that can do harm to women.”