Et Tu, Murdoch? HHS Secretary Kennedy Is in Trouble

Even the liberal New Republic conservative New York Post wants HHS Secretary and anti-vaccinationist Kennedy gone (boldface mine):

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.

In a Finance Committee grilling focused on his vaccine policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy came off as a paranoid kook connecting red strings on a whiteboard…

Get this: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can’t be trusted either — because chronic illnesses are on the rise: “When my uncle was president, we spent zero on chronic disease. We [have now] spent $1.3 trillion.”

No: Chronic illness is on the rise because 1) fewer other things are killing us, and 2) Americans’ lifestyles keep getting more unhealthy, with less physical activity, far more overeating and (arguably) worsening diets — not because the CDC “didn’t do [its] job,” as RFK Jr. put it…

But Kennedy isn’t advocating sensible reform; he wants to burn down the public health apparatus and rebuild it in his image to push his anti-science beliefs.

It’s not just his long record of anti-vax idiocy; Kennedy has proudly displayed his kook obsessions on a host of health-related topics, from Cellphones cause cancer to Processed foods cause mental health problems

Notably, he refused to give a straight answer when Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) asked if he believes the COVID “vaccine did anything to prevent additional deaths”: Rather, Kennedy dodged, “I would like to see the data and talk about the data.”

He obviously doubts the vaccines saved lives, but knows he daren’t say so.

That is, he won’t grant the indisputable truth that the jab did reduce the risk of serious cases among the most vulnerable, like the elderly and immunocompromised.

Yes, it’s a conservative, fascist-adjacent publication, so they have a bunch of blather about how “the Biden administration politicized public health and how went horribly overboard, pushing the vax (and endless boosters) on populations that didn’t need them” because they are stupid and don’t understand how the transmission of infectious disease works.

But it’s clear that even their readership thinks anti-vaccinationism is bonkers. Which means Kennedy is on very thin political ice.

So if, unlike those of us in the Douglass Commonwealth, you have Congressional representation, please call your representatives at (202)-224-3121, and the Capitol switchboard will forward you to your representatives’ offices. This is doubly important if your representatives are Republicans.

Because anti-vaccinationism is really unpopular:

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