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And they worried he wouldn’t be bipartisan! Last week, President-elect Donald Trump met with that scion of America’s premier Democratic dynasty, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The confab, which reportedly occurred at Trump’s request, centered on the issue of childhood vaccines and their (nonexistent) relationship to autism. When Kennedy emerged from the meeting, he was exultant: He told reporters that the president-elect had asked him to chair a commission on “vaccine safety and scientific integrity.”

“President-elect Trump has some doubts about the current vaccine policies, and he has questions about [them],” Kennedy said.

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