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Italian health chief says he resigned over 'anti-scientific' policies
Walter Ricciardi says populist government has ‘difficulty interacting with science
The head of Italy’s national health research organisation has said he was forced to quit because of the “anti-scientific” policies of the country’s populist government.
Walter Ricciardi, the president of the National Health Institute, said the government’s endorsement of unscientific positions, particularly regarding vaccinations, was putting public health at risk.
The League and the Five Star Movement (M5S) came to power last June with M5S leaders pledging to change a law that made it mandatory for children enrolling in state-run schools to receive 10 vaccines. Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League and Italy’s deputy prime minister, has said 10 vaccines are “too much”.
Ricciardi said in an interview with Corriere della Sera: “It’s clear that when the deputy prime minister says that he, as a father, believes there are too many obligatory, useless and dangerous vaccines, that’s not just unscientific, it’s anti-scientific.”
He also said repeated claims that migrants brought diseases were “groundless”, the government’s insistence that waste-to-energy plants are obsolete was “nonsensical”, and a decision to ease restrictions on the use of contaminated soils in farming was taken without evaluating the impact on health.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/03/italian-health-chief-resigns-over-anti-scientific-policies