Who Is RFK?

My VIP for this week is RFK – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – the current Secretary of Health and Human Services who appeared before the Senate Finance Committee last Thursday. There, he was asked to explain why he authorized the layoff of more than 600 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other actions s HHS chief. He defended the “shake-up” as an attempt to eradicate “corruption and politicization at HHS and the CDC.” 

When Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked him to “talk about the corruption of science that you’re trying to deal with and trying to correct.” According to Mary Mobley at The Daily Signal, Kennedy responded as follows.

In response, Kennedy pointed to a 2002 CDC study in Fulton County, Georgia, that compared children who got the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine at the CDC-recommended age to those who got them later.

“The data from that study showed that black boys who got the vaccine on time had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited,” Kennedy said.

But the chief scientist on that study, Dr. William Thompson, was called into an office by the head of the Immunization Safety Branch of the CDC “in order to destroy that data.”

“Then, they published it without that fact,” Kennedy said.

Thompson’s account surfaced in 2014, when he provided whistleblower information to then-Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., that he said proved the CDC “intentionally withheld controversial findings” about the connection between the measles vaccine and autism. Kennedy said, “I could sit here and point to thousands” of similar examples of agency cover-ups.

“It happens all the time,” he concluded. “We are being lied to by these agencies, and we’re going to change that right now.”

Since “the government” and any site with .gov are considered to be acceptable sources of truth, government officials must be accurate in the information given to the public. I hope that RFK finds the underlying cause of the problems with immunizations. I want to know if vaccinations are causing serious diseases and problems to be more frequent today that in previous years.