In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments.
He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research.
He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research.
He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved “almost miraculous and instantaneous” recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.
Truthfully I think he was someone that was cutting into trumps base of conspiracy nuts. at the same time I wonder if he was someone funded or otherwise heavily encouraged by a state actor hostile to america that needed a useful idiot (or a willing accomplice, depending on his culpability) to help destabilize america further.
Neptotism was always a factor though. His foundation only ever got off the ground because of Kennedy money and connections. He was picked in part because he was in a place to run but he was in a place to run because of a lifetime of nepotism