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littlemissmartypants

(27,651 posts) Wed May 14, 2025, 12:37 PM Yesterday

Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: 'I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me'

Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’
The health secretary appeared before the House Appropriations Committee this morning. This afternoon he'll go before the Senate's Health, Labor, Education and Pensions committee.

May 14, 2025, 12:06 PM EDT / Updated May 14, 2025, 12:25 PM EDT

By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Megan Lebowitz

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday sidestepped a question about vaccines and whether he would choose to vaccinate his children today against a number of diseases, saying, “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.”

Kennedy’s comment was in response to Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas and other parts of the U.S. that's killed two children and one adult — all unvaccinated — Kennedy has pushed unproven remedies, including a steroid called budesonide, an antibiotic called clarithromycin and cod liver oil, a supplement high in vitamin A.

None are proven treatments for measles, experts say. High doses of vitamin A can cause nausea, vomiting and liver damage, especially in small children.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jr-measles-vaccine-outbreak-congressional-hearing-rcna206776

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Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: 'I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me' (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Yesterday OP

He should be tarred with that comment everywhere he goes. pandr32 Yesterday #1

Note to Junior: Next step, RESIGN UTUSN Yesterday #2

What BS. HE IS HEADING HHS POLICY--which means "HIS opinion" outweighs the individual physician for the public's health hlthe2b Yesterday #3

Disingenuous. He should stop shovelling his shit. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Yesterday #4

Wow, just wow! My mouth is just hanging open, too amazed to move. Biophilic Yesterday #5

In his case... littlemissmartypants 23 hrs ago #7

Exactly. Then we start to question ourselves. Not a pretty picture. Biophilic 22 hrs ago #10

Message auto-removed Name removed 20 hrs ago #13

Here is Rep Pocan questioning Kennedy womanofthehills Yesterday #6

Here's a link to the current hearing: littlemissmartypants 23 hrs ago #8

Does he not realize how supremely incompetent he is? littlemissmartypants 22 hrs ago #11

FFS! sheshe2 22 hrs ago #9

Maybe he should try his boss's prescription of a shot of bleach and go swimming in an obvious sewer. Ping Tung 22 hrs ago #12

pandr32

(12,961 posts)

1. He should be tarred with that comment everywhere he goes.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 12:41 PM

Yesterday

"I don't think anyone should be taking medical advice from me." He should not be heading our Health and Human Services Dept.

UTUSN

(74,124 posts)

2. Note to Junior: Next step, RESIGN

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 12:49 PM

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hlthe2b

(109,665 posts)

3. What BS. HE IS HEADING HHS POLICY--which means "HIS opinion" outweighs the individual physician for the public's health

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 12:58 PM

Yesterday

If he directs the FDA not to approve the next seasonal COVID-19 vaccine, or flu vaccine--making all the pharmaceutical companies repeat the original placebo-controlled studies that he apparently fails to realize have already been done, no individual physician can break through to get you or yours the vaccines they need.

So, he has substituted HIS failing brain and beliefs for science, medicine, and YOUR HEALTH.

He is beyond redemption. May he rot in a hell of his own making...

Bernardo de La Paz

(55,545 posts)

4. Disingenuous. He should stop shovelling his shit. . . . nt

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 01:06 PM

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Biophilic

(5,601 posts)

5. Wow, just wow! My mouth is just hanging open, too amazed to move.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 01:16 PM

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This is the man who has been preaching horrible medical advice to the public for years? It's no wonder I can't get my heart rate to calm down. Good grief.

littlemissmartypants

(27,651 posts)

7. In his case...

Reply to Biophilic (Reply #5)

Wed May 14, 2025, 02:24 PM

23 hrs ago

This lapse in judgment (probably accidental because his brain is fried) is actually a good thing.

The real question is: will anyone listen?

The problem with pervasive propaganda is that information gets so muddled (like his brain) that nobody knows what to believe or who to trust anymore.

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Biophilic

(5,601 posts)

10. Exactly. Then we start to question ourselves. Not a pretty picture.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #7)

Wed May 14, 2025, 02:40 PM

22 hrs ago

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womanofthehills

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6. Here is Rep Pocan questioning Kennedy

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 01:21 PM

Yesterday

Link to tweet

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littlemissmartypants

(27,651 posts)

8. Here's a link to the current hearing:

Reply to womanofthehills (Reply #6)

Wed May 14, 2025, 02:30 PM

23 hrs ago

https://www.help.senate.gov/

Hearing on Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Health and Human Services Budget
Hearing type:Full Committee Hearing
Location:430 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Date:05/14/25
Time:01:30pm

littlemissmartypants

(27,651 posts)

11. Does he not realize how supremely incompetent he is?

Reply to womanofthehills (Reply #6)

Wed May 14, 2025, 03:21 PM

22 hrs ago

His lack of self awareness is staggering.

He is just so intellectually diseased how can anyone, but those who are in his same condition, take him seriously?

Incompetence rises to the top in President Psychopath's administration across the board.

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sheshe2

(92,001 posts)

9. FFS!

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 02:36 PM

22 hrs ago

Go ‘Flush’ yourself!!!!{

Ping Tung

(2,347 posts)

12. Maybe he should try his boss's prescription of a shot of bleach and go swimming in an obvious sewer.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2025, 03:34 PM

22 hrs ago

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