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riversedge

(77,764 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 06:01 PM Sep 2

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 CDC’s “dysfunction” and the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the rollout of lifesaving vaccines—dismissing 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
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RFK Jr. Stands Behind His Conspiracy Theories Amid Demands for Resignation (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2 OP
People will start to die as a result of his ignorance before long randr Sep 2 #1
Turn the microwave up Blue Owl Sep 2 #2
Usually my wife and I get our boosters around this time of year creeksneakers2 Sep 2 #3
CVS said this Avalon Sparks Sep 2 #4
The damned clusterfuck tRump and Jr. have created will most certainly kill a lot of people. groundloop Sep 2 #5
Trump wants this. hadEnuf Sep 2 #8
Yeah. We used to go to CVS creeksneakers2 Sep 2 #9
The new Covid shot is available in some states jgo Sep 3 #10
That's a lot to go through. creeksneakers2 Sep 3 #11
Fuck him and every fucking Republican who has mainstreamed this shit. Get. His. Fucking. Ass. Out. Karasu Sep 2 #6
"I'm not crazy! I'm just misunderstood!" Martin68 Sep 2 #7
of course he does Skittles Sep 3 #12
Interesting piece on conspiracies jfz9580m Sep 3 #13

randr

(12,588 posts)
1. People will start to die as a result of his ignorance before long
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 06:07 PM
Sep 2

and he will scurry off to the dust bin of history.

creeksneakers2

(7,808 posts)
3. Usually my wife and I get our boosters around this time of year
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 06:32 PM
Sep 2

Asked at the pharmacy today and was told Covid shots haven't been approved yet. Will they be? Trump may kill us all.

groundloop

(13,272 posts)
5. The damned clusterfuck tRump and Jr. have created will most certainly kill a lot of people.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:42 PM
Sep 2

All of this because a long term IV heroin abuser thinks he knows more than doctors and scientists.

hadEnuf

(3,397 posts)
8. Trump wants this.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:07 PM
Sep 2

He wants Americans suffering from pandemics, broke, hungry, and fighting a civil war with each other.

Vlad is very pleased.

creeksneakers2

(7,808 posts)
9. Yeah. We used to go to CVS
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:41 PM
Sep 2

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)
10. The new Covid shot is available in some states
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:52 AM
Sep 3

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.

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
6. Fuck him and every fucking Republican who has mainstreamed this shit. Get. His. Fucking. Ass. Out.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:58 PM
Sep 2

jfz9580m

(15,957 posts)
13. Interesting piece on conspiracies
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 04:04 AM
Sep 3

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 can’t 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 can’t rule anything out without absolute proof that it didn’t happen (the reason “the does God exist” argument goes on and on).
With Lihop, the way these GOP guys work, you don’t 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 didn’t care enough.
That’s 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 Ellison’s 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 aren’t 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 don’t 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 Zitron’s business idiots.

I never really thought of Dr Fauci etc as “elites” except talent wise. That’s never scary. It’s 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 ..

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