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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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[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago

Just for an instant, for a brief moment, the worm lost control.

[-] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 7 points 5 hours ago

Finally, sane medical advice from him.

[-] SocialistDad@hexbear.net 44 points 14 hours ago

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 9 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 57 points 15 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 40 points 15 hours ago
[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 37 points 15 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.

[-] Binky@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 15 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.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

Well you see, the only qualification anyone cares about is if everyone likes you. And unfortunately a good way to alienate Americans is to be correct about things.

[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 15 hours ago

Sounds like someone had a talking to by Pfizer.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago

This sounds dangerously close to antivaxx shit.

[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 14 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 15 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.]”

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 17 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 17 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] cream_provider@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

Yeah or how to cope with parasitic brain worms

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 16 hours ago
[-] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago

We been knew my dude.

[-] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago

He's trying to break free of the worms control

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