RFK Jr.’s Bold Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers
“You have friends in the White House,” he said at a conference hosted by the anti-vaccine organization he founded.
TL;DR
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a Children's Health Defense (CHD) conference, an organization he founded.
- He reassured attendees that they have allies in the White House and that investigations into vaccine safety are ongoing within HHS.
- Kennedy echoed disproven theories linking vaccines to autism and criticized vaccine safety studies.
- CHD has recently promoted claims that childhood vaccines cause more deaths than diseases and that COVID vaccines cause infertility.
- Speakers at the conference included prominent figures in the anti-vaccine movement, such as Andrew Wakefield.
- Kennedy's appearance comes during a deadly measles outbreak in Pennsylvania, where immunization rates are low.
- He has been involved in a dispute with Pennsylvania's governor regarding the classification of measles-associated deaths.