The anti-vaccine organization Kennedy helped found, Children’s Health Defense, has conducted extensive disinformation campaigns, including funding propaganda films such as Plandemic , the Vaxxed trilogy, and Medical Racism: The New Apartheid , which specifically targeted Black Americans to discourage vaccination. The scale of the destruction Kennedy could wreak at the helm of HHS is immense.

For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has spread conspiracy theories and factually incorrect information about vaccination, drug regulation, epidemiology, and biomedical science in general to advance his skepticism of evidence-based science and medicine.

For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has spread conspiracy theories and factually incorrect information about vaccination, drug regulation, epidemiology, and biomedical science in general to advance his skepticism of evidence-based science and medicine.

The anti-vaccine organization Kennedy helped found, Children’s Health Defense, has conducted extensive disinformation campaigns, including funding propaganda films such as Plandemic, the Vaxxed trilogy, and Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, which specifically targeted Black Americans to discourage vaccination. The scale of the destruction Kennedy could wreak at the helm of HHS is immense.

HHS is tasked with overseeing government efforts to take care of the American people, and its 10 component agencies, from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), play different specialized roles to do so. Kennedy has already floated some of his ideas that would harm public health in the United States, including ending water fluorid