RFK Jr. Will Let Us All Die Just to Make a Buck
It is difficult to underestimate the deleterious impact that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had on American public health policy. In little more than a year, the nephew of one of the most prodigious leaders in U.S. history went from an unserious third-party presidential candidate that even his family didn’t support to the country’s raging authority on disease management. He did this without ever having previously worked in medicine, public health, or government, guided only by a handful of conspiracies that America’s top health experts have thoroughly debunked.
The consequences of Kennedy’s appointment as head of the Department of Health and Human Services were tangible and serious: diseases that had historically been eradicated reappeared, kill children; Medicaid recipients lost health coverage; and Kennedy reduced some 20,000 employees in a massive restructuring of the entire agency. His error is riddled, AI-generated plan for America – called “Make America Healthy Again” or MAHA – also committed to fluoride strip (a well-researched dental aid) of the United States water supply, target ultra-processed foods and eliminate the prevalence of pesticides.
Yet before his shocking ascension to the highest levels of government, Kennedy was little more than a joke to purveyors and participants in the national political arena, derided as a nepo baby bothered by brain worms and without legitimate prospects in Washington.
Kennedy’s worrying behavior fueled doubt. Campaign reports revealed the 71-year-old fondly maintained a “freezer full of” road deaths and, in 2010, staged the lacerated corpse of a bear cub in Central Park as a joke. Other, more serious allegations against Kennedy have also surfaced. In July 2024, a babysitter whom Kennedy had employed to care for his children around twenty years ago accused him of sexually assaulting her. In response, Kennedy press send for a late night apology Text, asking to see her face to face. (It was not well received.)
But all of Kennedy’s past indiscretions seemingly disappeared when, after his Democratic-turned-independent bid for president failed, he turned to Donald Trump, groveling for a job.
