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RFK Jr. is a blatant liar and denier of the most basic fundamentals of medical knowledge. He does not believe the germ theory of disease. He denies that viruses and bacteria cause illness, and would take us back to fearing miasmas. He denies that vaccines factored in the decrease in polio ad measles, and claims that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS.
He lied repeatedly during his senate confirmation hearings, asking that Congress ignore his long history of erratic behavior and conspiracy theory peddling. Surprising nobody except the willingly naive Republican congress members (including our own Rep. Baumgartner), RFK Jr. immediately resumed his anti- science ways upon confirmation. He promised to leave the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unchanged, then fired every member and replaced them with like-minded conspiracy theorists. He asked for a Nazi-esque national registry of people with autism and depression. He promised to maintain vaccine availability, then forced approval changes to deny them. He is gutting the CDC’s staff, undermining the reliability of national health recommendations, and claiming that will somehow make us healthier.
