To everyone saying that we are anti-RFK Jr because he’s a Republican.
I am here to assure you that we do not give two shits about his political affiliation. I could not care less about the fact that he’s a Republican if I tried. If you recall, he was initially going to enter the 2024 election race as a Democrat, trying to primary Joe Biden. We didn’t want him and when he dropped out of the race to join Trump’s team, no one (who is speaking out against him now) was surprised and no one missed him. If he was just some guy in his basement, we wouldn’t care about him at all. Unfortunately, he is a Kennedy and has all the fame that comes with that and he uses that fame to spread disinformation. Multiple members of his family (most recently the reticent cousin Caroline) have called him out for that.
If he actually wanted to make America healthy again and look at healthcare access problems, and food access problems, and social determinants of health, then we would wholeheartedly embrace him, no matter what Party he was with.
In fact, we did support real food access initiatives in the early 2000s when Michelle Obama proposed them, but because she was a Black woman and the wife of a Black Democrat president she was crucified for it.
Now, instead of actual science and facts, we get this guy who has consistently stated that there is no safe vaccine and that they cause autism, neither of which is not true, he wants to do unethical trials because he doesn’t understand the science or ethics behind public health research, he thinks that SSRIs and people on them are equivalent to heroin, addicts or worse, he thinks pesticides are turning children transgender, he thinks that AIDS is not caused by HIV and that African AIDS is different than American AIDS. The hearings show examples where he said things that proved he’s racist against Black people and he’s antisemitic. He is a conspiracy theorist, who doesn’t understand any of the science behind anything he’s saying, which is why he feels comfortable saying it, but when confronted by that, he won’t own up to it. He’s a coward and a grifter and has made millions off of all of these lies and endangering (at times killing) children (see Samoa). Nobody cares about RFK Jr’s political affiliation, we care that he’s a liar and that he has no business running public health.
We don’t oppose RFK Jr because he can “hold the medical industry accountable” or he wants to make food healthier…because he can’t and doesn’t. We don’t oppose him because he’s a Republican, we oppose him because he will be terrible for the job of #HHSSecretary.
He’s just a legacy hire and has literally proven he’s a Trump sycophant with his #confirmation hearings.
If he gets confirmed, we’ll be fighting his misinformation and calling out his profiteering. If he doesn’t, that will be a great day for #Healthcare (until Trump finds someone worse).
If he wants to take out synthetic food additives and substitute them for more natural versions that will cost more and won’t actually make a difference in the health content of the food, no one actually objects to that. We object to the fact that it’s a distraction and won’t actually make a difference in American health. Once again, listen to and watch actual dietitians and food scientists and you’ll see why demonizing food additives doesn’t actually make America healthy again, and neither will Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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