RFK's confirmation: a potential revolution in US health science?

 

David Montoute
February 14th, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sworn in as the 26th secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after the U.S. Senate voted 52-48 to confirm his nomination. The news has triggered a flurry of panicked reporting across the legacy press. MSNBC even cut to a commercial break during RFK Jr.’s swearing-in ceremony, effectively censoring him. Rolling Stone lamented how an “anti-vax conspiracy theorist” will now run the nation's health systems, whilst The Conversation opined that Kennedy was “the most unqualified person ever to hold this crucial role of protecting the health of the American people”. 

The worldwide medical freedom movement, of course, has had a quite different reaction. The Age of Autism site ironically thanked the Democratic Party clique that has scandalously maligned and marginalised Kennedy, because, by doing everything possible to invalidate his presidential run, it had “placed him squarely in his new role” as HHS chief.

Meanwhile, the CEO  of Children's Health Defense Mary Holland said:

“Children’s Health Defense is thrilled that our founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It has been a long, tough and ultimately successful road.

“Bobby richly deserves this honor, and CHD is confident that he will make great strides toward the goals he has set for HHS: radical transparency, gold-standard science and making America healthy again.

“We look forward to reporting on HHS activity and advancing HHS objectives where appropriate. CHD will continue to focus on our piece of the American health puzzle: ending the epidemic of chronic childhood disease.”

CHD  went on to explain that Kennedy will oversee the largest budget ( $1.8 trillion in this first year 2025) of any federal agency, as HHS oversees 13 public health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

But one of the most thoughtful observations came from Max Blumenthal several weeks ago, on X. It placed the rise in Kennedy's profile squarely in the context of the Covid hoax and the subsequent vaccine disaster:

I do not believe @RobertKennedyJr would have ever gained national celebrity and been able to launch a national campaign that vaulted him to the heights of Trumpworld had The Science(TM) that informed the Covid response proven even remotely correct.

If the mRNA "vaccine" had not failed on every stated promise; had the CDC and WHO not changed the very definition of vaccine to accommodate its failure to prevent transmission or infection; had countless working class Americans not lost their jobs for refusing to take the jab, while others were forcibly injected in order to keep their livelihoods, sometimes suffering injury as a result; had mainstream news hosts and politicians including Joe Biden not proposed isolating The Unvaccinated from society, preventing them from traveling, and even from buying food in markets; had the lockdowns not set a generation of children across all social strata back years in their education, while doing nothing to stop the spread; had once-vibrant city centers not transformed to terrifying zombie scenes, shattering countless small businesses, while we were assured by Fauci that it would take just another week or two to flatten the curve; had a dystopian state censorship regime not consolidated its hold over social media platforms, disappearing dissenters from our digital commons those who protested in the streets were often beaten and arrested – had none of this occurred, RFK Jr. would be comfortably ensconced in his home in West LA, still loyal to the Democratic Party, a welcome presence in the world of affluent liberals, and nowhere near the political celebrity he is today. 

But all this happened and worse. Americans were lied to and abused on a massive scale, and RFK was one of the first to tap into the public's anger. And thanks to his Children's Health Defense, he already had an established platform to promote his jeremiads (which focused heavily at the time on the erosion of constitutional rights, not always on vaccine-related issues). 

Though the Covid event was hardly discussed during the 2024 presenting campaign – largely because the corporate media that got almost everything wrong wanted the issue to disappear – it loomed like a heavy cloud. RFK's presence as a Trump surrogate enabled 47 to channel the simmering anger, giving rise to the Make America Healthy Again movement, which became a magnet for alt media-oriented independent voters. Now RFK stands to take over a gargantuan federal agency that has traditionally served as an instrument of Big Pharma and the agribusiness lobby, and which is currently led by a Democrat political operative with no medical or scientific background. The pundits who paint RFK's ascension as an unfortunate triumph of the paranoid style in American politics are whitewashing the failures and sordid deceptions of the credentialed class they represent, while denying the experiences of the millions who paid the price for them. 

It remains to be seen whether RFK or the Trump Administration itself will be able to stem the push for mass vaccination that has not abated since the end of the supposed Covid "pandemic". But the early signs suggest not. Last month Trump stood with the heads of SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle to announce a $500 billion investment in a new artificial intelligence company called the Stargate Project. The founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, explained that his company was working on an AI-driven cancer diagnoses that would companies to gene-sequence tumours and “design a vaccine for every individual person...”. Such a “vaccine”, he claimed, could be created within 48 hours. Further, the vaccines will be mRNA-based, which would compound the genetic fallacy of cancer with the provably catastrophic consequences of Covid vaccine technology.

RFK's meetings with Pfizer execs in the weeks prior to his confirmation suggest that much horse trading has probably taken place behind the scenes, some of which surely involves the drug companies continued immunity (read: impunity) from prosecution. Yet, there is a core component of RFK's Make-America-Healthy-Again plans that will rally widespread support, even amongst some of his opponents. The promises to do away with processed food in schools, remove fluoride from municipal water supply and eliminate the entire nutrition department at the FDA for dereliction of duty have electrified the base of the health freedom movement, and undoubtedly have the US' food and drug industries organising and bracing themselves for the radical shake-up to come. 

 “RFK Will Find Out Why Autism Rates Are So High!” – Trump