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Pocan asked Kennedy, “If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?”

“Probably for measles,” Kennedy said, before backpedaling. “What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.”

“I don’t want to seem like I am being evasive but I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,”

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[–] SocialistDad@hexbear.net 32 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is basically Rogan’s “I’m an idiot” dodge. Works a lot better for podcast hosts than it does for the person in charge of the US’s federal healthcare bureaucracy

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago

Idk, antivax hogs love the whole "do your own research!" line.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 48 points 6 hours ago

"I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me"

"Then why did you ask to be HHS secretary?!"

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 38 points 6 hours ago
[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, I don't think people should be taking any kind of advice from you.

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 12 points 5 hours ago

Hey, if I wanted to desecrate the corpse of a bear or whale, he'd be a great resource

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 35 points 6 hours ago

While I'm not a medical professional, the Worm has informed me xey have multiple Ph.D's and that disease must be left to run rampant to cull the weak before the Event.

[–] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

He's trying to break free of the worms control

[–] Binky@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 6 hours ago

At least it’s finally something we can all agree upon. He might want to think twice about his job though.

Fucking dipshit.

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone had a talking to by Pfizer.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

This sounds dangerously close to antivaxx shit.

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 5 hours ago

Lol absolutely not. I’m saying that RFK Jr. is directly effecting pharma’s pockets.

Me personally, give me every vaccine.

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No, it doesn't lol. I'm not even sure how you read it that way.

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

To be fair, anti-vaxxer rhetoric is extremely hostile toward companies like Pfizer. Not for any logical or dialectical reasons, but because of conspiratorial notions that pharmaceutical companies use vaccines to “control” people. This “control” can run the gamut from relatively innocuous assertions like “Pfizer uses vaccines to suppress adoption of alternative medicine,” to blatantly racist/bigoted conspiracies like “[Im not gonna write a heinous example conspiracy here.]”

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 7 hours ago
[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 16 points 6 hours ago

We been knew my dude.