RFKJr is a terrible anti-vaxxer. But there are so many other problems as well with him taking over the entirety of the federal healthcare in the US. The threat can’t be overstated.
My letter to my US Senators in PA (John Fetterman and Dave Mccormick):
Senator Smith mentioned that RFKJr called people on antidepressants “addicts” because of the side-effects of going off some antidepressants abruptly. This shows an incredible misunderstanding about antidepressants OR a desire to spread disinformation about mental health.
RFKJr was asked if he intends to cut Medicaid and he said Trump isn’t happy with the deductibles and premiums. He was clearly confusing it with Medicare, and I guess he intends to cut Medicare. People don’t want that.
RFKJr said he will allow infectious diseases to contaminate the food supply, spreading among livestock and farm workers. He said he’s hands off the farms. Letting the chips fall where they may? This will lead to deaths of Americans, harm to businesses, risk the supply chain, and a loss of confidence in the US.
With RFKJr in charge, nobody will be able to trust the healthcare system, or the food supply. Americans will be at the mercy of anyone seeking to do bio-attacks.
RFKJR’s crunchy woo woo cult type opposition to science and experts is embarrassing. This was demonstrated by him having this sort of cult with him at the confirmation hearing.
RFKJr should be rejected outright.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.
RFKJr tried to get the Supreme Court to give doctors immunity from any consequences for harming or killing people by telling them bad medical misinformation, arguing that doctors should have “free speech” rights to give bad medical advice. That’s outrageous, and you can’t possibly have a functional society that way, and at least for now, the courts recognized this reality.
NBC News – Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. group’s attempt to protect anti-Covid-vaccine doctors from investigations – Justice Elena Kagan turned away an emergency request from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services. Nov. 20, 2024, 4:20 PM EST By Lawrence Hurley The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to protect doctors being investigated in Washington state for allegedly spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 virus. The emergency application was denied by Justice Elena Kagan on behalf of the court.
RFKJr when explaining why he brought a lawsuit to get rid of all the covid vaccines off the market, he tried to claim wrongly: “most experts agree today even the people who did it back then that covid vaccines are inappropriate for six-year-old children who basically have a zero risk from covid that’s why I brought that lawsuit”
This is not true, and it’s evidence that he’s going to try to keep any covid vaccines, or any new covid vaccines, from ever reaching youths. This is a eugenics argument against vaccines.
CIDRAP – Early-life infection burden continues throughout childhood, new data reveal – Chris Dall, MA January 6, 2025 New data from researchers in Denmark suggest that children who have a lot of common infections early in life have higher risk of moderate to severe infections and antibiotic use throughout childhood.
Reasonable doctors disagree with RFKJr, and in fact think he’s dangerously wrong.
Jen Rubin interviews Dr. Rob Davidson Jen speaks with Dr. Rob Davidson about how public health is at severe risk, especially in light of RFK Jr. and his potential confirmation, but what he and his group have done to try to prevent that. The Contrarian Jan 28, 2025 It’s concerning to put this guy at the head of the biggest organization controlling healthcare in this country to be the mouthpiece of public health. That’s the concern. We’re worried that they could change childhood vaccination schedule. We’re worried that they may add things like autism, which has been shown conclusively to not be caused by vaccines, specifically the MMR vaccine. We’re concerned they could add that to diseases that are considered related to vaccines. So I think that’s a big one. Certainly, he’s got some very strange health views. He has said very clearly he is not sure HIV causes AIDS. That is a concern. HIV does cause AIDS. People doing research, the amazing work since I remember in the mid-80s when I was a teenager when AIDS was a death sentence and now it’s a chronic disease, right? And we can we can manage it. We can we can help prevent people from getting it. We can help people live full, healthy lives with HIV and not move on to get AIDS. You know, but we’re also concerned about his really lack of any record talking about Medicaid, Medicare, the ACA. We know Trump. We know Congress. Many people in Congress want to go after Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and massive corporations.
There are some weirdo doctors of course — many want to sell you “alternatives” to vaccines or real medicine.
Docs Organize Against, and for, RFK Jr.’s Nomination to Run HHS — Letters, visits to senators among their strategies by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today January 13, 2025 Last Updated January 14, 2025 For groups opposing Kennedy, his skepticism on vaccines is among their biggest objections. Kennedy “has stated that he doesn’t think any vaccine is safe and effective,” Rob Davidson, MD, MPH, executive director of the Committee to Protect Health Care, which opposes the nomination, said in a phone interview with a press person present. “To propose that this guy should lead the biggest health agency in the U.S., dictating policy and just having a mouthpiece — being the official government spokesperson for how we should run our health system — I think it’s terrifying. It will erode trust in this critical tool we have to prevent disease.” The group has more than 19,000 signatures on a letter opposing Kennedyopens in a new tab or window, more than 15,000 of which are physicians, while a number of the rest are healthcare professionals, Davidson said.
The anti-vax ivermectin doctors haven’t gone away, they’re just rebranding.
Important Context Ivermectin Doctors Rebrand and Rally for Kennedy Confirmation Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance is rebranding for the anti-vaxxer’s Senate confirmation battle. Walker Bragman Jan 29, 2025 As with CHD, the spread of COVID misinformation has proven lucrative for the FLCCC, Washington Post analysis of tax records revealed. As WaPo reported, the group “went from receiving $1 million combined when they formed in 2020 to collecting more than $21 million combined in 2022.” Important Context has previously revealed that FLCCC and CHD receive money through major donor-advised funds and have also shared donors like the Crary Social Ecology Fund. The groups both promote the same narratives. Kennedy has claimed that the “early treatment” drugs were “suppressed” and that those promoting them, despite their proven lack of efficacy, were “censored.” In the recent pseudo-documentary Covid Collateral: Where Do We Go For Truth?, Marik made a similar claim, calling ivermectin “a big threat,” wrongly claiming if it “proved to be an effective drug for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2, the vaccination program would have been deemed null-and-void.” The documentary was funded by a company tied to the pro-Trump Epoch Times and the Falun Gong Chinese cult.
Surely there must be more than one republican who wants to not get sick all the damn time as well?
STAT – At confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. refuses to say that vaccines don’t cause autism – HHS nominee’s refusal appeared to imperil the support of at least one senator Republican – By Rachel Cohrs Zhang and Matthew Herper Jan. 30, 2025 Cassidy (R-La.) finished the hearing with a monologue questioning whether RFK Jr. could harm President Trump’s legacy, and said he has not decided whether to support his confirmation. During a hearing before the Senate health committee, Cassidy pressed Kennedy on the issue of whether vaccines cause autism.
Updated Jan 31, 2025