There is now an embarraassing amount of examples of RFKJr’s behavior, actions and public statements that can only be described by using the term hubris:
Despite his denials, Kennedy is a die hard vaccine sceptic as well as an anti-vaccine activist. He is spreading dangerous and deadly conspiracies, and his actions go repeatedly against the scientific consensus. His policies are based on myths and pseudoscience and a blatant disregard for science and evidence-based public health.
Kennedy has implemented a sweeping overhaul of US vaccine policy, and is accused of reckless mismanagement and administrative incompetence that has led to chaos and disorganization inside and outside of his department. This includes reducing staff at federal agencies and promoting a reorganization of HHS that can only weaken the US’s ability to address future health problems.
The firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez and the subsequent resignations of other senior CDC officials are a direct result of their refusal to rubber-stamp his ideological anti-vaccine agenda and unscientific and dangerous demands. One official, Demetre Daskalakis, resigned with a warning that the “ideological agenda” which is being pushed by Kennedy “will result in death and disability.”
Kennedy’s actions seem to be driven by a desire to please a political base. They reveal a complete disregard for science and a judgmental view of public health and science. In other words, he is weaponizing public health for political gain.
Most recently, Kennedy stated disgusting confidence: “I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today…and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges…and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look.” This, of course, is complete, utter and embarrassing nonsense. It might even be funny (in that it highlights his incompetence) but sadly it foremost is, like so many of his statements, extremely dangerous. A man who thinks like this must not be near a health department; much rather he should be in a straight jacket.
I am hardly alone with my criticism. Here are but a few comments from prominent people related to Kennedy’s recent statement on “mitochondrial challenges” that I picked up yesterday on ‘X’:
- The man is a lying grifter who is doing grave harm.
- Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.
- Every. Single. Time RFK tries to pontificate on health and medicine he spouts absolute gibberish that crumbles with a 30sec Google search. This is what happens when you form views based on social media nonsense and pure quackery. Anyone with internet access can see through it.
- We now are facing the greatest threat to public health in the USA since it became a country. The spillover will task the entire world and will become the major threat to global public health.
- Non-doctor, non-medically trained weirdo RFK Jr. says he can medically diagnose kids just by looking at them.
- Wtf is a Mitochondrial challenged face? Unless he’s in the prednisone ward, how is he seeing so much inflammation too? Is the worm seeing?
- RFK Jr uses long scientific sounding words and talks very confidently. He is therefore able to convince many that he knows what he is talking about. But to actual experts it’s very obvious he hasn’t got a clue. A sophisticated and successful con man.
- RFKjr is the leading cause of threats to global health security.
- Who’s the most dangerous cabinet member? RFK Jr Tulsi Gabbard Kash Patel Pete Hegseth I go for RFK Jr with Tulsi a close second.
- Ex-heroin addict with a parasitic brain worm, zero medical degrees, zero background in healthcare, or any formal scientific training thinks he can diagnose children just by looking at them??? This is insane. This man is going to LITERALLY kill us.
- The non-doctor is diagnosing children from 30 meters distance with fake diseases and invented psychological conditions that have no basis in reality. He does get credit for cramming a remarkable amount of stupidity into the fewest amount of words possible.
- Excuse me, @SenBillCassidy, perhaps now is the time to stand up, say you were wrong to confirm this crank, and advocate for his removal.
- RFK JR: “I’m looking at kids…and I see they are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces” Me: I’m looking at the HHS Secretary and I see an anti science crank who doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about.
The national and international outrage is enorm – rightly so! – and many of us have called for Kennedy’s resignation. Sadly, he is allowed to continue displaying his disgusting hubris unabated. We will all feel its effects soon.
US medical professionals, pleaase stop this lunatic!
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I don’t think that Kennedy will ever admit to being wrong about what he is doing.
Because from what I see, he has fully adopted the Trump philosophy: ignore science, facts, reason and even reality, and simply assert that what you believe is The Truth.
And when it turns out that enacted policies have disastrous results, the solution is simple: keep ignoring those inconvenient facts, censor and fire researchers who came up with them, and just keep loudly proclaiming that “WE’RE DOING THE GREATEST JOB EVER, and AMERICANS ARE GETTING HEALTHIER FAST”.
And the latter may even hold true, albeit not for the best of reasons: if scores of old, sick and frail people die as a result of Kennedy’s and Trump’s insane healthcare policies, then on average the people who survive this onslaught will, yes indeed, be healthier …
One way forward from here might be if all CDC workers support a letter of concern, stating that their boss (Kennedy) is an idiot for whom they do not want to work. However, chances are that Trump and Kennedy will simply fire them all, and then blame those people for destroying the CDC, and thus America’s health.
I agree with every one of the comments.
Kennedy should consider changing the slogan MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) to MASA (Make America Sick Again) or even LAD (Let America Die).
I see the only chance of Kennedy getting fired if the disadvantages for Trump outweigh the advantages he currently sees in his loyal sycophant. But unfortunately, that point has not yet been reached.
PS: How long will it take before OldBob, DC and the other zombies show up here to defend their Master and Commander Donald and his right-hand man Robert?
Three, two, one…
@RPGNo1
This will never happen. No matter how utterly incompetent Kennedy is, and no matter how much harm he is causing, Trump will never fire him as long as he is loyal to Trump. Because firing him would mean admitting that hiring him was a mistake – and Trump will NEVER admit to making ANY mistake.
Just look at the other people he chose to run this, for want of a better word, ‘administration’. All are hugely incompetent and completely clueless at their jobs, and make huge mistakes on an almost daily basis.
In any normal administration, all these people would have been fired within days or even hours of their appointment – not to mention the fact that they would of course never have been hired in the first place. In any normal administration, all the things that Trump and his band of evil clowns have done so far would have led to dozens and dozens of scandals, many with very serious consequences for the people involved.
But this is not a normal administration. This is a one-man-show, with Trump dictating not just policy, but also what truth and reality are. And in Trump’s universe, all those dumb people he hand-picked are doing A Great Job, and can stay on as long as they keep kissing his behind. Which in fact appears to be their only real job requirement.
Did someone call me?
Hey guys, loosen up and have a few laughs:
https://www.malone.news/p/friday-funnies-time-warp
Checkmate, habitual liar.
Yes, after he took two covid shots!
Forget the boring ad-homs, try this instead:
https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-an-apple-a-day-keeps
As always, Malone is talking nonsense. But he is in the right place with you, his kindred spirit. 😀
Look what crawled out of the slime to spread BS. Before you crawl back, watch this for some laughs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34jcpEsFs
From your link:
“…thoroughly debunked…” – that is not how science works.
Science is constantly “…objectively evaluated…”, see here:
https://www.malone.news/p/dr-ladapo-and-calley-means-let-it
As I observed elsewhere, who actually believes that RFK knows what a mitochondrion is? Or that mitochondria is the plural?
Edzard: “… much rather he should be in a straight jacket.”
This reminds me of a comment from trump’s first secretary of state who, after resigning, was asked if it was true that he had called the president a moron. “No, he said, I called him a fu**ing moron!”
That’s an epithet I deem worthy of RFK, Jr. as well
“CDC Leader Drops Bombshell RFK Jr. Admission”
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has never actually been briefed by CDC experts before making major public health decisions, according to a departing top official at the agency.
The bombshell claim from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis came in a Thursday night CNN interview after the ousting of the newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control left the agency in chaos. He gave further details in an interview with the Daily Beast.” etc…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cdc-leader-drops-bombshell-rfk-050341144.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-kook-090639833.html
“RFK Jr. is an anti-vaccine kook destroying the CDC. Impeach him. | Opinion”
… “The dangerous actions of this longtime conspiracy nut are often overshadowed by the daily chaos and craziness of the Trump administration, but the things he’s doing are, quite simply, putting every American’s health at risk. Simply put, people are going to die.’
“Kennedy’s anti-science, anti-vaccine, pro-stupidity approach to health has now decapitated the top leadership at the vitally important U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prompting a massive staff walkout at the agency.” …
Here is the latest on the CDC debacle: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/cdc-spiraled-into-chaos-this-week-heres-where-things-stand/
As someone working in the field of public health, I would not want to be in this county when the next public health emergency happens.
From here:
https://www.jpands.org/vol30no3/zywiec.pdf
[quote]
Conclusion
The COVID-19 pandemic response violated core principles of public health, medical freedom, and bodily autonomy, amplifying the devastating effects of SARS-CoV-2 and its modified mRNA biologics/vaccines.
The overwhelming evidence of SARS-CoV-2’s gain- (Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 30 Number 3 Fall 2025) of-function origins, coupled with the catastrophic health impacts of modified mRNA COVID-19 biologics/vaccines and the unchecked expansion of next-generation mRNA biologics, paints a chilling picture of deliberate design and
systemic harm.
Engineered viral features and vaccines that devastate immunological, cardiovascular, reproductive, and neurological systems have driven staggering morbidity and mortality, with effects unlikely to be accidental. Coordinated efforts to obscure these truths, enabled by liability shields and legislative failures, have worsened a global health disaster. The surge in autoimmune diseases, aggressive cancers, pregnancy losses, cardiovascular fatalities, societal fragmentation, and the looming risks of advanced mRNA platforms demand an immediate halt to mRNA vaccine and biologic use, comprehensive investigations into the motives behind this unprecedented violation of public trust, and robust measures to restore safe therapeutics and ethical public health practices. Humanity deserves accountability, transparency, and a resolute commitment to preventing such engineered calamities in the future.
[end of quote]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons
Wikipedia again!
See here:
“Wikipedia bias influences how one’s perception of reality is perceived”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/opinion/wikipedia-bias-influences-how-ones-perception-of-reality-is-perceived/
You have so many chaIns to yank🤣
@Pete Attkins
I compare dealing with OB to a wastewater plant: no matter how much crap you process, one thing is certain: there’s always more to come.
Read the sources, you fool. Oh, right, your reading comprehension is seriously lacking.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/tom-price-health-secretary-fringe-medical-group/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/aaps-make-health-care-great-again/607015/
MMR Whistleblower (+NYC subway crime) August 31, 2025 – Sharyl Attkisson:
https://rumble.com/v6yb9i4-mmr-whistleblower-nyc-subway-crime-august-31-2025-sharyl-attkisson.html
[quote]
“We begin with an incredible story that spans 25 years, so far. It involves the MMR vaccine against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella given to most American babies in two doses. Yet you probably never heard about this controversy. It’s brought to us by a scientist named Stephen Krahling who worked on a project at Merck called “Protocol 7” and was uniquely positioned to blow the whistle on what he learned. In the bigger sense, his account raises questions about what can go on unknown to most of us about products injected into nearly all children.”
[end of quote]
It is really impossible not to call your comments and sources idiotic [not an ad hominem!)!!!
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca3/23-2553/23-2553-2024-08-06.html
Buried Vax vs. Unvax Study Finally Sees the Light of Day:
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/buried-vax-vs-unvax-study-finally
see my post of tomorrow
@LyingBob
Vigilantfox, Bigtree, Aaron Siri, The Highwire, ICAN
Wow, all the antivaxx conspirators gathered in one place. And the study is being hyped exclusively in the well-known antivaxxing disinformation circles. That is really convincing. Not really, you ignorant fool.