RFK Jr. is a Loopy Quack with Bizarre, Dangerous, Half-Baked Ideas that Endanger Americans
TRUTH WINS OUT STAUNCHLY REJECTS ROBERT KENNEDY JR’s NOMINATION FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
RFK Jr. is a Loopy Quack with Bizarre, Dangerous, Half-Baked Ideas that Endanger Americans
Delray Beach, FL — Truth Wins Out, a nonprofit organization committed to combating extremism and advocating for LGBTQ equality, today expressed searing opposition to the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services. RFK Jr. is an unqualified quack and radical ideologue who jeopardizes our nation’s health. His primitive views on vaccines should deeply concern all Americans and his backward ideas about HIV are a direct threat to the LGBTQ community.
“The Senate must protect the American people and reject this ill-considered nomination that threatens our health and well-being,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “Kennedy is an unqualified, loopy quack with primitive ideas that could lead to catastrophic health consequences. His backward views on HIV and vaccines make him unfit to serve as health advisor in a dog pound, no less lead one of our nation’s top health agencies.”
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners reacted to Kennedy’s nomination by signing a letter imploring senators not to confirm him. Furthermore, Kennedy’s non-profit organization, Children’s Health Defense, has some shady partners and policy positions, that should raise red flags. The New York Times reported:
Kennedy has partnered with, financed or promoted fringe figures — people who claim that 5G cellphone towers cause cancer, that homosexuality and contraceptive education are part of a global conspiracy to reduce African fertility and that the World Health Organization is trying to steal countries’ sovereignty.
One of his group’s advisers, in Uganda, suggested using “supernatural insight” and a man she calls Prophet Elvis to guide policymaking. “We do well to embrace ethereal means to get ahead as a nation,” she wrote on a Ugandan news site this year.
Wahome Ngare, a Kenyan physician who sits on the group’s advisory board, argued at a conference in Uganda this year that contraception and health education were part of a global plot to reduce Africans’ fertility.
The New York Times also reported that Kennedy and his organization have expressed alarmingly primitive views on HIV:
Kennedy himself has questioned the accepted science behind AIDS. He falsely said that AIDS may have been caused by the recreational use among gay people of the drug amyl nitrite. It is caused by the H.I.V. virus.
Last year, Children’s Health Defense posted a video promoting a book that questions the link between H.I.V. and AIDS.
In an interview with NPR in 2015 before joining Children’s Health Defense Africa, Dr. Ngare mused about stories that “vaccines have been used for spread of H.I.V.” and called for a boycott of polio vaccines.
Dr. Ngare’s backward views have placed gay people in grave danger:
At the conference in Uganda, Dr. Ngare spoke to far-right lawmakers and activists who support draconian punishments, including life in prison, for people convicted of having gay sex.
The United States has imposed sanctions on Ugandan officials over that law.
Uganda is also a major supporter of conversion therapy. It offers LGBTQ people conversion torture as a remedy for their “condition.” CNN wrote:
On President Yoweri Museveni’s recommendation, the law prescribes rehabilitation for convicted homosexuals to change their sexual orientation, even though scientists say so-called conversion therapy is harmful and ineffective.
A Call to Action
Truth Wins Out calls on the U.S. Senate to reject RFK Jr’s nomination and demand a more qualified, sane choice to lead HHS. TWO believes that America’s healthcare system should not be hijacked by an extremist who suffered from a brain worm, and is committed to inflicting scientifically bankrupt ideologies on the American people.
For further information or to schedule an interview, please contact:
Contact: Wayne Besen, Executive Director, Truth Wins Out
Email: Wbesen@TruthWinsOut.org
About Truth Wins Out
Truth Wins Out is a nonprofit organization that works to protect LGBTQ+ people and advance equality by combating the spread of hate, extremism, and misinformation. Through education, advocacy, and public policy work, we strive to build a world where all individuals are free from discrimination and persecution.
