The forces of darkness, also known as rusted-on Democrats, are doing everything in their power to stop Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination to the top job in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
It comes after the media hit job during the election campaign failed. Safely under the wing of Donald Trump, the Establishment has watched helplessly as he has shuffled closer and closer to power.
‘News reports, and many in the hearing yesterday, have claimed that I am anti-vaccine and anti-industry. Well, I am neither. I am pro-safety and I am pro-good science,’ declared Kennedy. ‘I worked for 40 years to raise awareness about Mercury and other toxins in fish … and nobody called me anti-fish.’
He added, ‘My kids are vaccinated and I believe vaccines have saved millions of lives and play a critical role in healthcare. Nor am I the enemy of food producers. American farms are the bedrock of our culture and our national security.’
That sounds reasonably mainstream.
‘In my advocacy I have often disturbed the status quo by asking uncomfortable questions, and I am not going to apologise for that.’
He then pledged to remove the financial conflict of interest from agencies to create ‘an honest, unbiased, science-driven HHS accountable to the President, to Congress, and to the American people’.
Listening to the hearings, one is left with the impression that it is not so much what Kennedy has said in the past that matters, but what his questions might uncover in the future.
Repeatedly, he was warned that his questions about vaccines could endanger public trust in the health industry. Really? Is this the same health industry that has complained bitterly that Covid destroyed trust… Why? Because their products were so fabulous? Because people asked questions? No. Because people started dying or developing serious illness after vaccination and the entire health machine backed away and said, ‘Uh uh! Not us! Nope! Delete this person from the internet! Fake news! Misinformation! Domestic terrorists!’ as if they were holding up a cross to a demon. Citizens watched the health industry descend into fits of hysteria, authoritarianism, and cruelty. It is no wonder there are calls for an exorcism.
Being told it is dangerous to ask questions of science is something many remember from the Covid era, so allow us to use it as the example. Who was right? Those who asked questions, or the people who refused to answer them? It is far too soon for government and pharmaceutical companies to play the, ‘I’m so fragile! Don’t hurt me with your scary questions!’ narrative.
Kennedy has not only threatened pharmaceutical companies, he has put chemical companies and agricultural empires on notice for their alleged role in the declining health of Americans.
He has made it clear that he is not at war with the entire enterprise, he simply wants to make sure the businesses are not profiting from cutting corners with public health.
An eloquent and experienced Senator Paul helped Kennedy immensely during his hearing.
Answering Bernie Sanders’ unhinged statements about the absolute finality of ‘studies’ and ‘consensus’ regarding vaccine safety, Senator Paul accused his approach as being the reason people had started to distrust science.
‘These are the nuances you are unwilling to talk about because there is such a belief in submission. Submit to the government… Do what you’re told. There is no discussion. There ought to be a debate. You’re not going to let [Kennedy] have the debate because you’re just going to criticise and say it is this and admit to it or we’re not going to appoint you. But it is more complicated than that and this is why people distrust government, because you are unwilling to have these conversations.’
He added:
‘On autism, there is no good science of anything to show what causes autism. We don’t know. It’s a profound disease. I know many mums here and dads who have kids with autism. I know them personally. I have met their kids. The thing is, they saw their kids developing completely normally, maybe speaking 100 words, go to no words at about 15 months of age. Now, there isn’t proof that vaccines cause it, that’s true, but we don’t know what causes it yet so shouldn’t we be at least open-minded? We take 72 vaccines. Could it be? I don’t know, but we shouldn’t just close the door and say we’re no longer … because we believe so much in submission … we’re not going to have an open-minded study of these things.’
After Senator Paul finished a passionate criticism of the health industry and its reluctance to look at autism, the room broke into applause.
Kennedy, who has said repeatedly that he is not against vaccines, but rather in favour of ensuring vaccine safety, is guilty of nothing more dangerous than asking regulators and manufacturers to ‘look again’ at a widely held suspicion that vaccines might have undisclosed adverse reactions.
To be fair to Kennedy, autism was an election issue. People voted knowing he would initiate his review. In 2010, 1 in 68 children were reported as having autism. In 2024, that figure is 1 in 36. There is no good explanation for the rise in autism in Western nations and many parents of autistic children claim symptoms began following vaccination, even if their doctors refuse to investigate the link.
Something is wrong, and while official medical boards put out statements to the effect of ‘we have no idea what is causing it, but we definitely know it’s not vaccines’ people will remain sceptical.
If vaccine manufacturers are so certain that they are not the culprit, they should welcome Kennedy with open arms because he is giving them the opportunity to clear their name on the public record. There is no more reason for autism advocates to fear a Kennedy-led investigation than pilots would fear a debunking of the Flat Earthers.
Rep. Kim Schrier belled this particular cat, asking, ‘Are we reviewing the question about whether the Earth is flat?’
The answer is, sure. Take the most annoying Flat Earther you can find, fly him up into space on one of Musk’s rockets, take a selfie, embarrass him on a livestream, and bring him back. It would save the rest of us a lot of time bickering with morons on social media.
Flat Earthers can be debunked easily. The problem with vaccines and autism is that the debunking isn’t convincing either parents or the climbing statistics.
One advocate claimed, ‘A new crop of parents will be afraid, who may believe that vaccines could harm their children, potentially cause autism, and those parents might withhold life saving vaccines from their children.’
Actually, that is what fearful parents are doing right now. There is a growing movement, particularly after the total disaster of the Covid vaccine, which is undermining trust generally. Health advocates who want to see parents return to vaccination programs should be very careful about fighting against an open-book investigation.
In 2023, Kennedy said, ‘I do believe that autism comes from vaccines.’ Imagine how much faith will be restored in the industry if his investigation comes back clean. The approval of sceptics has the highest credibility.
Sen. Cassidy said himself, ‘Bobby, I’ve learned … you’ve got a tremendous following. My phone blows up with people who really follow you. And there are many who trust you more than they trust their own physician. And so the question I need to have answered, is what will you do with that trust?’
That is the wrong question.
Kennedy is a gift to the pharmaceutical industry, that is, if the industry has nothing to hide.
‘What will you tell the American mother? Will you tell her to vaccinate her child, or not?’
The answer to that, I would have thought, is simple. When Kennedy is done with his investigation, that American mother won’t be asking Kennedy anything because she will once again have trust in the industry.
I will leave you with Kennedy’s reply:
‘President Trump has promised to resurrect America’s global strength and our leadership and to restore the American Dream. But he understands that we can’t be a strong nation unless we are first a healthy people. A healthy person has a thousand dreams, a sick person only has one. Today, over half our countrymen and women are chronically ill and have only one dream.’