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riversedge

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Tue Sep 2, 2025, 06:01 PM Sep 2

RFK Jr. Stands Behind His Conspiracy Theories Amid Demands for Resignation [View all]

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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