Tag: Robert F. Kennedy Jr

RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, on Sunday told American parents that they should get their children vaccinated against measles, as the surge in infections has reached numbers not seen in the past 35 years.
Kennedy, a leading vaccination skeptic who has spent years amplifying misinformation about vaccines, including the shot that protects against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), made his call in the course of a contentious interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning.
His remark came as the incidence of measles crossed a milestone – the US has now officially recorded 2,371 confirmed infections so far this year, surpassing the total tally in 2025 of 2,289.
Taken together, the past two years have seen more measles infections in the US than the rest of the 21st century combined. The last time a greater number of measles cases were recorded in a single year was in 1991. […]
Kennedy continues to shrug off criticism that his work as a prominent vaccine skeptic, both before and after he entered the Trump administration, has exacerbated the problem. Asked whether he took any responsibility for the measles surge, he said: “Absolutely not.”

Of course not, and after he’d grudgingly said this pro-vaccine thing, he then reverted to form:

Kennedy used the CNN exchange to spread further misinformation about other aspects of public health. He claimed that both respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that is a major cause of infant mortality and Lyme disease were caused by manipulation of germs in laboratories.
The suggestion has been contradicted by decades of scientific evidence that suggest they both have natural roots. RSV was initially identified in the 1950s, two decades before such experimentation, known as “gain-of-function” research, started.
During the interview, Kennedy repeated unfounded claims that there was a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism, and poured doubt on the efficacy of vaccines to protect children against Covid-19.

In other words, lying as per usual. But he’s been caught on video saying that parents should in fact get their kids jabbed, and that’s a weapon the Democrats need to hammer him with the next time he goes off on a lying spree like this.

Yeah, of course he did. To be honest, I thought this was too ridiculous to be true, so did a quick Google, and oh for fuck’s sake. I don’t like linking to News Corp sites if I can avoid it, but the New York Post is where the story seems to originate; one of their writers was, for reasons not given, granted access to a bunch of Junior’s old diaries back in 2013 and she has now turned what she learned from that into a book, because why on earth wouldn’t you sit on this story for years instead of releasing it when it was timely and might’ve at least got in the way of his rise to political prominence… The story is actually about three men who influenced him after Bobby Sr’s murder into becoming the piece of shit he now is (one of whom had Epstein connections, because why not), and the raccoon revelation is somewhat casually tossed off—and I’ve just realised what a really bad choice of words that is considering the subject matter, but oh well—as if it’s “just one of those things”, but I suppose it kind of is “just one of those things” for this dickhead, and I’m increasingly sure there’s a lot more of this sort of thing in his background that he’s hasn’t admitted to even in private… starting to think that brainworm was the animal world trying to get its revenge on him.

Cheryl Hines says Robert F Kennedy Jr won’t run for president in 2028

The actor Cheryl Hines has said she does not believe her husband, Robert F Kennedy Jr, will run for the White House after Donald Trump’s presidency.
Hines was asked by Elizabeth Vargas, a NewsNation anchor, on Monday, “Is your husband going to run for president in 2028? And, if so, are you ready for that?”
“Gosh, he’s not going to run for president,” Hines replied, though she subsequently conceded that Kennedy at one point “didn’t think he was going to go into politics – and the next thing you know he’s telling me he wants to run”.

I mean, obviously he wants to run, cos he did run last year, lest we forget; he wanted to be the Democrat candidate, then went independent until Mushroom Cock managed to buy whatever’s left of his worm-eaten soul:

Kennedy endorsed Trump, a Republican, on 23 August 2024, defecting from the party to which his father – Robert F Kennedy, a former US senator – and uncle, John F Kennedy, belonged before their assassinations in the 1960s.
“We are aligned on many key issues,” Kennedy said at the time of Trump, whom he had once previously referred to as a “a terrible president”.

I’ve no doubt one of those key issues is the amount of money Kennedy was promised to drop out and be Trump’s HHS guy instead. Anyway, I see no reason why he couldn’t be president given how the incumbent keeps getting away with it, and he wouldn’t be any more unqualified for that position than he already is for his current one…

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus.
The report exposes glaring scientific failures from a health secretary who earlier this week threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals.
The 73-page “Make America healthy again” report – which was commissioned by the Trump administration to examine the causes of chronic illness, and which Kennedy promoted it as “gold-standard” science backed by more than 500 citations – includes references to seven studies that appear to be entirely invented, and others that the researchers say have been mischaracterized.
Two supposed studies on ADHD medication advertising simply do not exist in the journals where they are claimed to be published. Virginia Commonwealth University confirmed to Notus that researcher Robert L Findling, listed as an author of one paper, never wrote such an article, while another citation leads only to the Kennedy report itself when searched online. […]
The citation failures come as Kennedy, a noted skeptic of vaccines, criticized medical publishing this week, branding top journals the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and Jama as “corrupt” and alleging they were controlled by pharmaceutical companies. He outlined plans for creating government-run journals instead.

Somehow I’m not wholly surprised that these citations don’t exist, given that RFK Jr.’s qualifications for his job don’t exist either, but I’m still kind of shocked despite that. The report appears to be full of shit and other problems as it is, but the evident number of outright lies is concerning. I fear this gives us an insight into what those government-run journals might be like…

RFK Jr. says people should not take medical advice from him, defends HHS cuts during congressional hearings

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s most publicly recognized vaccine skeptics, took a softened approach on vaccines when he answered questions before a House committee Wednesday morning, saying, “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.” […]
During the House hearing, Kennedy avoided sharing his own thoughts about vaccines — which have previously invited skepticism — instead deferring to the doctors running the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Asked by Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan if he would today vaccinate his own children for measles and chickenpox, Kennedy said “probably” for measles, but that “what I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.”
“I don’t want to seem like I’m being evasive, but I don’t think people should be taking advice, medical advice from me,” Kennedy said.
He said he has directed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya to try to “lay out the pros and cons, the risks and benefits, accurately as we understand them, with replicable studies,” for people to “make that decision.”
His comments mark a departure from his strong opinions about vaccines before taking office as HHS secretary.
During his confirmation hearing in January, Kennedy said that he supports vaccines, although he refused to unequivocally say that vaccines don’t cause autism, despite numerous existing studies already showing there is no link. However, in March, the HHS confirmed that the CDC will study whether vaccines cause autism.
Shortly after Kennedy said people should not take his medical advice, some public health experts criticized the comments — with one saying that giving people guidance “is [Kennedy’s] job.”

EXACTLY. Robert. MATE. Do you even know what it means to be Health and Human Services Secretary in the US? If not, here’s Wikipedia to tell you:

The duties of the secretary revolve around human conditions and concerns in the United States. This includes advising the president on matters of health, welfare, and income security programs. The secretary strives to administer the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out approved programs and make the public aware of the objectives of the department.

In other words, PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO TAKE YOUR ADVICE. THAT’S YOUR FUCKING JOB, YOU WORM-RIDDLED CUNT. You’re supposed to actually know these things, you’re getting paid a quarter of a million dollars each year to know things. That’s the problem. Because THEY CAN’T do that. They CAN’T trust you. You’re even less qualified to be in that job than *I* am. Can’t believe only two people died in that measles outbreak with this fool overseeing it. Won’t it be nice when that country is run again by people who actually know how to do their jobs? I have to hold out hope that it ever will be, of course…

This is RFK Jr’s latest statement about autistic people.

I am becoming increasingly fine with the idea of everyone in this fucking regime dying. I mean, we all die eventually, of course, but I want them to die sooner rather than later. And preferably violently. I don’t want any of these people to live long enough to die of natural causes.

And I HATE that about me. As I may have said before, I don’t like the idea of taking pleasure in someone’s death, I could refuse to mourn them but I couldn’t actively celebrate their departure. I could do that now. These people have made me a worse person, because I could be very happy about theirs. Their leaving this world would actually leave it a better place. And I REALLY hate that I’m like this now. But that’s where we are. Cos I certainly don’t see any other way out of the current nightmare.

Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department

Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently – and said the government is providing resources, including protective vaccines.
“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team,” Kennedy – an avowed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who for years has sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines – said in a post on X. […]
A total of 164 measles cases were reported as of 27 February across Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas, information from the CDC showed. About 95% of those infected were unvaccinated people, including children whose parents did not follow CDC recommendations to get them immunized with safe, effective vaccines providing protection against measles as well as other easily preventable diseases. Another 3% were from people who received only one of the two required shots for immunity, CDC data showed on Friday.

Dangerous fucking idiots, both Bobby Brainworm and all these stupid cunts that wouldn’t vaccinate their kids. And the ones that still won’t, even now. The child who died in the Texas epidemic was the first US death from measles since 2015, and that person had been the first since 2003. It wasn’t completely wiped out there, but it was massively reduced; Wiki tells that in the 1960s, pre-vaccine, it affected about 3000 out of every million people, but by about 2000 there was literally a one in a million chance of getting it. The vaccine fucking worked and people stopped dying. I’m glad that for once Kennedy’s overcome his usual antipathy to vaccines somehow, but it’s a bit late… especially when HE’s been one of the key figures for years in convincing people that vaccines are the work of Satan. Cunt.