Attorney for RFK Jr. blasts 'hysterical' media report as distortion of HHS pick's views on vaccines

An attorney advising Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-Elect Donald Trump's secretary nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is slamming a New York Times report this week that claimed he sought to revoke the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval for the polio vaccine.

"Contrary to hysterical media reports that the petition sought to make sure no polio vaccines would be available, the scope of the petition was quite narrow," Aaron Siri, a close RFK Jr. adviser and partner at Siri & Glimstad LLP, told Fox News Digital. "It simply asked the FDA to require a proper trial for licensure for children of a novel polio vaccine."

The New York Times reported Friday that Siri is "waging a war" against all vaccines, but Siri said the re...