Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a Republican senator into a tailspin of fury Wednesday during the Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general.
Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, had raised concerns about the spread of right-wing misinformation surrounding vaccines, particularly the claim entertained by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr that inoculations cause autism in infants.
