Robert F. Kennedy Junior on Wednesday faced a make-or-break Senate hearing, where he was grilled on his history of promoting the vaccine misinformation and planned to raise American science agencies as he President Donald Bids to become Trump’s health secretary.
If confirmed, 71 -year -old Kennedy Family Scone and former environmental lawyer will oversee the top of a department over 80,000 employees and a budget of $ 1.7 trillion, such as scientists growing bird flu triggering a human epidemic. Warning of risk.
Critics argue that he is dangerously disqualified, citing his propaganda to promote the claims of childhood vacancies, he suggests that HIV does not cause AIDS, and allegations that he has 2019 During the journey, the anti-meals vaccine in Samoa had air to the spirit, a deadly outbreak months before a deadly outbreak.
They also say that their attractive counseling fees for law firms prosecuting pharmaceutical companies create a conflict of interests manifested in manifestation forms.
“Mr. Kennedy has adopted the principles of the conspiracy, quack, charltons, especially when it comes to the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, he discouraged and discouraged his children from saving their children from saving their children from saving their children’s lives Has worked for his life, “Democratic Senator Ron Wayden said in his initial comment.
Kennedy said, “News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine and anti-industry-I am neither. I am a supporter.”
At the same time, the former Democrat has received praise for its “Make America Healthy Again” (Maha) agenda, which climbs on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan and through healthy food of the epidemic of the country’s chronic disease through healthy food Emphasizes competing and promoting permanent farming. ,
Complaining to its route to confirmation, a conservative group founded by former vice -president Mike Pence has expressed concern about Kennedy’s previous donation for organizations supporting abortion access – a issue that separates some Republican May and may hurt their possibilities of obtaining most Senate votes.
Vaccine protest
Although he has tried to soften his vaccine doubt in recent months, he is widely known as Kennedy, or “RFK JR”, spent promoting the principles of vaccine plot in two decades, special In the same way around the Kovid -19 shots -he “ever made Deadlast.”
He has also said that he especially drinks raw milk, claims that it “pursues human health” – a stance that he maintains, even bird flu between our cattle Spread and is shown to contaminate unexpected milk.
Another frequent target of his IRE is the presence of fluoride in the country’s public water supply, which was introduced to reduce dental cavities in the middle of the 20th century.
While his criticism of this practice has created controversy, they also have support from some people in the scientific community, who question whether the benefits of water fluoridation reduce potential neurotoxic risks, especially as fluoride It is now easily available through toothpaste.
Brain worm, dead whale
Kennedy initially participated as an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election, in which the campaign was conducted with a headline-hatching revelations.
His claim of recovering from a parasitic brain worm made during an old divorce statement was revived – as a story told by his daughter, that he once used a chainsaw to reduce a dead whale Did
He even released a video, stating that, a decade ago, he initially kept a dead six -month bear cub in Central Park after planning a skin for meat.
His decision to return Trump after his withdrawn from the race condemned his brothers – and on Tuesday, his cousin Caroline Kennedy published a scary letter to the Senator, making him reject and call him “hunter” It was insisted, who led the young relatives. Drug addiction.
Kennedy, a former ambassador and a former ambassador and a former ambassador and a former ambassador, wrote, “Their cellar, their garage, and their dorm room were the centers of action where drugs were available, and they enjoyed showing that they he had his huxea How to feed children in a blender to feed, “Kennedy, a former ambassador and a former ambassador and daughter of former President John F. Kennedy.
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