If you ask most doctors, scientists, or public health officials, you will likely get more than a few reasons why Robert F Kennedy, Jr should not be Health Secretary.
But as he testifies at his confirmation hearing as Trump’s nominee to serve as Health and Human Services secretary, let’s focus on just a few.
A Few Reasons Why RFK Jr Should Not Be Health Secretary
And let’s just focus on the things that Kennedy has said…
“In 1965, my father toured Willowbrook on Staten Island and launched the national campaign to shut down these medieval warehouses for human beings. I worked for 200 hours in one of those nightmare facilities—Wassaic Home for the Retarded in Dutchess County, New York in 1968 and 1969. I worked around people suffering every kind of intellectual disability, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, schizophrenia and hydrocephaly, among many others. I never saw a case of autism. In fact, like most Americans, I knew nothing about the disease until I saw the extremely mild form depicted by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rainman in 1988.”
Is the Autism Epidemic Real?
Kennedy believes in an autism epidemic that is caused by vaccines because he didn’t see any autistic people when he volunteered in state mental hospitals in the late 1960s.
“A Special Treatment Unit for disturbed mentally retarded adolescents was established in Cambridge State Hospital in the 60’s with remarkable therapeutic success. A similar unit for 20 autistic children and adolescents was created at the Faribault State Hospital in 1969.”
A historical perspective and service report : Region VIII, American Association on Mental Deficiency.
Even though there is plenty of evidence that autistic children and adults were being cared for at these state mental hospitals…
“I have never in my life seen a man my age with full-blown autism, not once. Where are these men? One out of every 22 men who are walking around the mall with helmets on, who are non-toilet-trained, nonverbal, stimming, toe-walking, hand-flapping. I’ve never seen it.”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
And he regularly repeats his idea that there are no adults with autism because he doesn’t see adults at the mall hand-flapping and stimming, with helmets on!
What else?
He doesn’t think the measles vaccinations are necessary and said that he would not vaccinate his own kids.
Why?
He thinks that only poor and malnourished people are at risk from measles.
Kennedy claims that in 1964, it was “almost all severely malnourished kids, mainly from the Mississippi Delta” who died. And that “it is very, very hard to kill a healthy child with any infectious disease, but particularly with measles.”
Of course, this is not true.
Only measles is much more serious if you are malnourished, everyone is at risk of death if they are unvaccinated. That’s what we saw in the pre-vaccine era, when deaths were certainly not limited to the Mississippi Delta.
And then of course, there are his anti-vaccine books and his anti-vaccine organization. An anti-vaccine organization that exploits dead children to push his agenda that vaccines are dangerous and not necessary.
Tell your Senators: Oppose Kennedy for Health and Human Services Secretary
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Last Updated on January 29, 2025
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