From your reference -
"That’s despite decades of evidence assembled by his Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and his Health Department telling him so.
“I’ve never said, literally never said, anything about it,” he snapped in response to cross-examination during a House of Representatives committee session.
“That’s exactly the point,” retorted Washington Democrat Representative Kim Schrier.
“You don’t say anything about it, but the doubt you’ve created about all of medicine and science is causing parents to make dangerous decisions.”
So now he is being pilloried for not saying anything. And of course this is supposed to be the age of the better educated.

So much for the younger generation. Lied to about a lot of things and things that aren't said are somehow worse.