Kennedy repeatedly refused to acknowledge scientific consensus that childhood vaccines don’t cause autism and that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives
The Biden administration - in its final weeks - quietly stacked a key health committee in a move that could sabotage Robert F Kennedy Jr's vaccine plans.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sounded concern on the GRAS process and claimed GLP-1s are “miracle drugs” but fell short on the drugs being a silver bullet for curing the obesity epidemic in the US.
During the first round of his Senate confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, appeared to be at odds with his past self.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s repeated support for vaccines during Senate confirmation hearings follows a long history of disparaging them.
In hearings Wednesday and Thursday, senators questioned President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over his fitness to be the country's top health official and control the mammoth $1.7 trillion agency.
With little fanfare, the Biden administration stacked a critical committee that helps set U.S. vaccination policy with new members before leaving office.
Kennedy has tried to recast his anti-vaccine extremism as an honest effort to illuminate what he claims is unsettled science (it’s not). He insists he’s not trying to take away anyone’s shots; he’s just asking for the data supporting them. Is that so unreasonable?
In one of the most tense exchanges in a heated confirmation hearing, Senator Angela Alsobrooks called out past comments RFK Jr. made suggesting a different vaccine schedule for Black people.
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy said he was "struggling" with Kennedy's nomination for health and human services secretary after repeatedly challenging his views on vaccines.
Robert F. Kenney Jr. asked to see “science” showing vaccines are safe – but when a GOP senator showed him evidence, he dismissed it. “There is no one who’s less qualified to be Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent two days this week insisting to senators that he’s not anti-vaccine. He said that he instead supports vaccinations and will follow the science in overseeing the $1.7 trillion Department of Health and Human Services, which, among other duties, oversees vaccine research, approval and recommendations.