WTF

The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.

Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.

Many public health experts are concerned about the hepatitis B vote because children are especially vulnerable to the virus. More than 90 percent of infants who are infected develop chronic hepatitis B — which can lead to cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer.

But Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana and a gastroenterologist, noted on Thursday in a social media post that Mr. Siri was not an expert on childhood vaccines. “Aaron Siri is a trial attorney who makes his living suing vaccine manufacturers,” Mr. Cassidy wrote.

The agenda for Friday, when the committee is scheduled to take up broader issues about the childhood vaccine schedule, lists as a speaker Aaron Siri, a lawyer who for years joined with Mr. Kennedy in court battles over vaccines.

Mark Blaxill, a well-known anti-vaccine activist and self-described “critic of the C.D.C.” who is now a staff member at the agency, presented data on the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine, pulling from studies that included papers published by David Geier, a discredited vaccine critic.

Dr. Nevison is a former board member of SafeMinds, an organization that supports the false theory that vaccines cause autism.