Opposition to cancer is an easy sell for most people. Sort of like being against Hitler. And yet, during his first administration, Trump reportedly said that “Hitler did some good things.” Now his administration seems to be extending this gentle attitude of tolerance to cancer, as well.

Earlier this month, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers, handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted to remove a long-established recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies get this vaccine within 24 hours. The CDC’s advisory now, nonsensically, suggests delaying it by two months, a suggestion that has no medical justification and is projected to result in some 300 liver cancer cases per year and 480 deaths per year. The survival rate for liver cancer is very low: only about 15 percent in the United States.

Also this month, the Trump administration filed a brief supporting Monsanto in its attempt to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer allegedly caused by Roundup, its

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