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I believe that vaccines play a critical role in health care. All of my kids are vaccinated. I've written many books on vaccines. My first book on vaccines in 2014, the first line in it is 'I'm not anti-vaccine,' and the last line is 'I'm not anti-vaccine.'
Kennedy said during his confirmation hearing He has made it his life's work to sow doubt and discourage parents from getting their kids life-saving vaccines. It has been lucrative for him and put him on the verge of immense power."
Senator Ron Wyden said during Wednesday's Senate hearing Broadly speaking, his appointment is concerning on all levels. The one thing I can say is a good thing, is his desire to look at chronic disease in America and make that a priority. I worry that he will greatly shift the priorities of HHS and turn his position of power into a means to spread disinformation, misinformation and purposefully spread misleading information to the public."
Kirsten Hokeness, director at the School of Behavioral Health and Science at Bryant University, told Newsweek I'm gonna say to NIH scientists, 'God bless you all. Thank you for public service. We're going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.'
Last November, Kennedy said I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, and particularly boys, it’s probably under-appreciated how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing.”
Kennedy did not use those exact words in a 2023 podcast interview, but he did say I think some of the live virus vaccines are probably averting more problems than they’re causing. There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.”
In that interview, Kennedy said The institution, CDC and the vaccine programme, is more important than the children that it’s supposed to protect,
Kennedy said, ... according to NBC News reporting There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
While talking about bioweapons at a July 2023 dinner in New York City, Kennedy said Senator, I don’t believe that I ever compared the CDC to Nazi death camps.”
A year and a half ago, you went to New Hampshire … and you talked about (how the) government should not tell a woman what she can do with her own body. That’s her choice,
Senator Bernie Sanders said Do you stand by those statements that you made in the past, or do you retract those previous statements?”
To me this is like Nazi death camps, what happened to these kids,
Kennedy said of the rising number of children diagnosed with autism We have no shortage of challenges to confront, and I even agree with Mr Kennedy on some of the diagnoses,
Did you say on a podcast, and I quote, ‘I wouldn’t leave it abortion to the states. My belief is we should leave it to the woman. We shouldn’t have the government involved – even if it’s full term,
We need to understand the safety of every drug – mifepristone and every other drug,
Kennedy said about the medication abortion drug, I can’t say I’m surprised by their hostility on the other side – I’m highly disappointed by it,
No, I never said that,
said Kennedy, when he did, in fact, link gender identity to pesticide exposure without evidence on several occasions We shouldn’t be spending 10% of the Snap program on sugared drinks,
said Kennedy, in support of a conservative proposal to limit the types of food public assistance beneficiaries can buy Medicaid is not working for Americans and is not working for the target population,
We are truly through the looking glass this morning in the Senate here,
said the Colorado Democratic senator Michael Bennet
