Dear Harris,
In his confirmation hearings this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed once again why no rational person would ever want him in charge of the nation's public health.
He refused to disavow his false claims linking vaccines to autism, which have been disproven by decades of scientific research.
He said that antidepressant medications like Prozac and Wellbutrin can be more addictive than heroin.
He doubled down on bizarre claims, including that Wi-Fi and 5G cause cancer and that AIDS is a different disease in Africa than in the United States.
These are the rantings of a dangerous conspiracy theorist, and if confirmed, he'd have sweeping control over 18 agencies that are critical to the nation's health. This is a big deal. He must be stopped.
Will you make a donation to Inequality Media to help spread the truth and stop RFK Jr.'s confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services?
If confirmed, RFK Jr. would be in charge of some of the nation's most important agencies for public health, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Handing these critical agencies over to RFK Jr. would be a disaster.
RFK Jr. has said that COVID-19 was "targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people" and that "the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese."
In his 2021 book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, he alleged, without plausible evidence, that Dr. Fauci performed "genocidal experiments, sabotaged treatments for AIDS, and conspired with Bill Gates to suppress information about COVID-19."
This is libelous nonsense, and his anti-vaccine beliefs are especially dangerous. Over the past five years, RFK Jr. has repeated more than 100 times false claims linking vaccines to autism, and he has erroneously suggested that the COVID-19 the vaccine has killed more people than it has saved.
At a time when childhood vaccination rates are falling, leading to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles, whooping cough, and mumps, RFK Jr.'s anti-vax statements will deter even more parents from getting their children vaccinated.
And I shudder to imagine what would happen if there's another pandemic and RFK Jr. is in charge of public health.
Friends, I knew and worked for Robert F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no Robert F. Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy was passionately committed to social justice. He would never have suggested that a deadly virus was targeted at certain races. And in 1962, when Robert F. Kennedy was President John F. Kennedy's attorney general, JFK signed the Vaccination Assistance Act in order to, in the words of a CDC report, "achieve as quickly as possible the protection of the population, especially of all preschool children … through intensive immunization activity."
For the sake of our health and our kids, the Senate must reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services.
Will you make a donation to Inequality Media to help spread the truth and mobilize grassroots pressure to block RFK Jr.'s confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services?
Thank you,
Robert Reich
Inequality Media
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