Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocated for the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine during a visit to West Texas on Sunday to comfort two families whose children died of the disease.

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  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    IIRC, RFK’s stances on health issues were mostly based on a conspiracy theory that the institutions he now leads were deliberately burying studies and mass amounts of data. If that were true, he’d obviously be crowing about it at every opportunity.

    Instead, he found out that his conspiracy theories are bullshit, and that he’s now beholden to Trump and MAGA fascism. He’s going to accidentally say something against the narrative from time-to-time. I’m sure Trump or Elon or whoever is in charge will make him do something humiliating to atone for it.

    Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not defending RFK, Jr. it’s extremely sad that the apple fell so very far from the tree.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      Shut up.

      Your whole argument relies on:

      1. Him being able to read

      2. Him bothering to read

      3. Him understanding medical research

      4. Him believing it’s not all just part of the conspiracy

      The chances of all that happening are lower than the chances of winning all the numbers in powerball.

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        I mean he is a lawyer, who fought for the environment for decades. You dont become a successful lawyer by reading tweets, you need to actually read and put effort. He is not like most of trump’s cabinet, even though he is a conspiracy theorist and a flawed human(though with the upbringing he had, i cant imagine any human coming out as normal).

      • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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        5 hours ago

        Yelling at his underlings and then getting a PowerPoint about it are probably closer to the real situation