RFK Jr.’s Bold Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers
Since becoming Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly denied that he opposes vaccines and has toned down some of his more extreme rhetoric on the subject. But in a keynote speech today at a conference for Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization he founded, the old Kennedy was back. He complained about safety studies, floated disproven theories about a link between vaccines and autism, and all but declared himself an anti-vaxxer. “You have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House,” he told the crowd. His choice to take the stage at the conference signaled a shift. Since becoming HHS secretary, Kennedy had distanced himself from Children’s Health Defense as he worked to convince the Senate that he held mainstream-enough views on vaccines. Children’s Health Defense, meanwhile, attempts to convince parents that vaccines are a threat to their children’s well-being. In just the past few days, CHD has used its X account to warn parents against trusting babies with health-care providers who might give them vaccines, claimed that childhood …
