RFK Jr. Stands Behind His Conspiracy Theories Amid Demands for Resignation
Source: daily beast
HEALTH HAZARD
The Health Secretary is calling lifesaving COVID vaccines experimental and ineffective while favoring unproven, alternative methods.
Laura Esposito Sep. 2 2025 4:54PM EDT
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Kennedy, a conspiracy theorist with no background in science, published a Wall Street Journal op-ed Tuesday defending his chaotic overhaul of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid growing calls for his resignation.
In the piece, the notorious anti-vaxxer blasted the CDCs dysfunction and the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the rollout of lifesaving vaccinesdismissing them as experimental and ineffective drugs that he believes should not be prioritized over unproven alternatives.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., makes his way to the inaugural Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall on Monday, August 4, 2025.
That dysfunction produced irrational policy during Covid: cloth masks on toddlers, arbitrary 6-foot distancing, boosters for healthy children, prolonged school closings, economy-crushing lockdowns, and the suppression of low-cost therapeutics in favor of experimental and ineffective drugs, Kennedy wrote.
His reference to low-cost therapeutics can be interpreted as a nod to substances such as ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug embraced by the anti-vaccine movement amid baseless claims it could prevent or treat COVID-19...................
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-stands-behind-his-conspiracy-theories-amid-demands-for-resignation/
This is an older article:
The psychology of the anti-vaccine movement Free
https://portlandpress.com/biochemist/article/43/4/52/229493/The-psychology-of-the-anti-vaccine-movement

randr
(12,588 posts)and he will scurry off to the dust bin of history.
Blue Owl
(57,338 posts)Until that fucking kook explodes
creeksneakers2
(7,808 posts)Asked at the pharmacy today and was told Covid shots haven't been approved yet. Will they be? Trump may kill us all.
Avalon Sparks
(2,721 posts)Hopefully u r in a state that will have
groundloop
(13,272 posts)All of this because a long term IV heroin abuser thinks he knows more than doctors and scientists.
hadEnuf
(3,397 posts)He wants Americans suffering from pandemics, broke, hungry, and fighting a civil war with each other.
Vlad is very pleased.
creeksneakers2
(7,808 posts)But I read that's uncertain. So I asked where I get my other prescriptions filled. She said the vaccine wasn't approved at all, so I guess until it is it won't be available anywhere in any state.
jgo
(1,000 posts)I posted earlier today that I got the new Covid shot this morning. I had to travel a fairly long distance to a different state, and had to pay out-of-pocket since it is not covered by Medicare yet, but I got the shot. I am hoping to get reimbursed if/when Medicare covers it, but not counting on it.
creeksneakers2
(7,808 posts)Good for you. One more person who won't be spreading it.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)Martin68
(26,458 posts)Skittles
(167,406 posts)he's a fucking nutcase
jfz9580m
(15,957 posts)I was using the two examples given to assess my conspiracy proneness:
1) the Princess Diana was killed one I dismiss outright as garbage only saying probably since technically you cant outright rule anything out. But based on my knowledge of reality I would put the odds of their being any credence to that as very low.
2) the 9/11 example is trickier. Mihop again I would outright rule out aside from that technically you cant rule anything out without absolute proof that it didnt happen (the reason the does God exist argument goes on and on).
With Lihop, the way these GOP guys work, you dont need a conspiratorial worldview to think that ..Lihoi (let it happen out of incompetence) and maybe if there were a 100 key officials who could have stopped it, my reading of these systems is that there were maybe 15 out of the 100 who didnt care enough.
Thats what worries me these days as I feel that as long as their rears are safe and there is no accountability this present day reality is filled with people who need strict oversight they are not getting. While those of us with no power and no control are pounded away over safety.
That was Larry Ellisons worldview.
I am not conspiratorial at all, but distrust of the same people who wanted climate change lied about is not anything like anti-vaccine paranoia. Anyway vaccines arent enough. They need to shut down wet markets and factory farms to prevent future pandemics instead of scrambling for vaccines at the last minute while never giving a shit about safety when there is time.
I dislike and distrust the elite (I dont mean the truly elite who are rarely powerful like say my oncologist. I would say he is elite intellectually but he is just a rando doctor)-but the types of people who ascend to elite status in a corrupt society tend to be mediocre dimwits like Zitrons business idiots.
I never really thought of Dr Fauci etc as elites except talent wise. Thats never scary. Its untalented and mercenary elites I have a problem with. They often come off as really stupid people. So between not being that well intentioned and daft to boot ..