But when I was a child, the grown-ups taught us to ignore malicious gossip, and never to dignify it with a response.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
Also known as: Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., RFK Jr.
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Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.. (born 17 January 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist who has served since February 13, 2025, as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services. A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy.

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Similarly, a comprehensive 1977 study by McKinlay and McKinlay, formerly required reading in almost all American medical schools, found that all medical interventions, including vaccines, surgeries, and antibiotics, contributed only about 1 percent of the decline and at most 3.5 percent.17 Both CDC and the McKinlays attributed the disappearance of infectious disease mortalities not to doctors and health officials, but to improved nutrition and sanitation — the latter credited to strict regulation of food preparation, electric refrigerators, sewage treatment, and chlorinated water. The McKinlays joined Harvard’s iconic infectious disease pioneer, Edward Kass, in warning that a self-serving medical cartel would one day try to claim credit for these public health improvements as a pretense for imposing unwarranted medical interventions (e.g., vaccines) on the American public. As the McKinlays and Kass18 had predicted, vaccinologists successfully hijacked the astonishing success story — the dramatic 74 percent decline in infectious disease mortalities of the first half of the twentieth century — and deployed it to claim for themselves, and particularly for vaccines, a revered and sanctified — and scientifically undeserving — prestige beyond criticism, questioning, or debate.