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If there’s one thing that really, really, really irritates the living crap out of me, it’s how large swaths of the press have been describing President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in their reporting as a “vaccine skeptic,” rather than what he is, an antivaccine […]
Regular readers know that I am a longtime critic of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in particular his promotion of antivaccine propaganda that contributed to real deaths in a poor nation, his promotion of bizarre conspiracy theories about vaccines and COVID-19, his HIV/AIDS denialism, and, well, just about everything about this overprivileged addled fool. That is, […]
Last week, President-Elect Donald Trump rounded out the list of his nominees for health positions in his administration. Initially, he had nominated antivax activist and all-around conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whom given his having bent the knee to Donald Trump before the election in return for the promise of a high-ranking health position […]
Ever since longtime antivaccine activist, supporter of “natural health” quackery, and fear mongered about food ingredients Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his quixotic Presidential campaign and bent the knee to Donald Trump in exchange for a high-ranking health-related position in the Trump administration, should Trump win, I’ve been trying to warn my readers what it […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It’s the fulfillment of an implied promise that Trump made at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in late October, where he said he would let […]
Last week, the day before the election, I described Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who in return for abandoning his quixotic and bizarre campaign for the Presidency as an independent to bend the knee and swear everlasting fealty to former President Donald Trump had been promised control over the entire federal health policy apparatus, as an […]
As hard as it is to believe, I’ve been writing about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for nearly two decades. It all began in 2005 when RFK Jr. first “outed” himself as an antivaxxer by writing a conspiracy-laden “exposé” of the CDC falsely claiming that it was covering up evidence that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal had […]