Incredible: RFK Jr. Finally Makes A Good Point -- Wonkette

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Robyn Pennacchia

Absolutely no one should take medical advice from him.

On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent nearly five hours defending his bullshit and making his case to cut HHS by $33 billion in back-to-back hearings with the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees. I spent nearly five hours listening to him defend his bullshit, and I can conclusively say that he has no idea what he is talking about, what his department is doing, who he’s had fired, what day it was or what he had for breakfast that morning.

Or, as Democratic Senator Angela Alsobrooks put it during the HELP committee hearing, he was “not able to answer any specific questions about [his] agency.”

He did, however, make one good point, when responding to a question from Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) during the House Appropriations Committee hearing about whether he would vaccinate his own children today, and that was “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.”

Finally! We agree on something. Unfortunately, one of the major jobs of the HHS is to give people advice, and to be knowledgeable enough to do so — which he very clearly is not.

He also said that his “opinion on vaccines is irrelevant,” and, although we certainly wish that were the case, he is the head of HHS and therefore his opinions are, in fact, extremely relevant. Sadly, they are probably the most relevant vaccine-related opinions in the whole of the United States.

Pressed by Pocan to say whether he’d recommend parents vaccinate their children, he said he would prefer to give them a list of pros and cons and let them figure that out for themselves.

Later in the day, during the HELP committee hearing, Sen. Chris Murphy brought this up when he pointed out the myriad ways that Kennedy had undermined vaccines, the measles vaccine in particular, also noting that he had claimed that the vaccine’s effectiveness wanes very quickly, had not been “safety tested,” and contained fetal debris, none of which was true.

In response, Kennedy had a full-on tantrum.