Why No One Should Listen To HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

If you need more reasons not to follow anything that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said, just know that the snake oil-talking grandfather took his grandchildren to sewage and bacteria-infested waters in Washington, D.C.’s, Rock Creek Park, where they went swimming and posted photos. 

On Mother’s Day, the man who sets national health standards literally went for a swim in water that is so disgusting that the National Park Service advises against coming in contact with it “due to high bacteria levels.” 

“Stay out of the water to protect streambanks, plants and animals and keep you and your family (including pets!) safe from illness,” the advisory states. “Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health.”

Kennedy didn’t just go swimming, he posted a photo of himself fully submerged in the highly infectious waters, which means that within this year we can expect Kennedy to either develop full glowing powers or a third ear. 

It’s this level of stupidity that sat in front of the House Appropriations and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees, Wednesday, completely out of his depth and trying to explain his past statements on vaccines and his efforts in his current position to reduce vaccine programs. 

Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek. pic.twitter.com/TXowaSMTFY

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 11, 2025

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

From NBC News:

Amid a number of measles outbreaks across the country, with the largest in West Texas, Kennedy has, on occasion, offered tepid support of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, but frequently undercuts that message with false claims about harms and a lack of long-term protection.

Kennedy largely maintained his stance Wednesday, telling Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., during the House Appropriations Committee hearing, that he would “probably” vaccinate his children against the measles today, but added, “My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.”

“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy said.

Whoa. Wait. What?

I know that I’m reading this incorrectly.

The Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t want anyone taking medical advice from him? 

First, I’m pleased at this admission because at least he knows the limits of his stupidity. However, his job is not only to give medical advice but also to set medical standards. So I’m literally confused as to how the entire Congressional hearing didn’t stop to have him explain this.

Anyway, they continued. 

More from NBC News:

In the afternoon, during a heated back-and-forth with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Kennedy even seemed to suggest that the measles vaccines was unsafe — despite decades of evidence that the shot is safe and effective.

Murphy said that Kennedy had “consistently been undermining the measles vaccine.”

“You told the public that the vaccine wanes very quickly,” Murphy said. “You went on the Dr. Phil Show and said that the measles vaccine was never fully tested for safety. You said there’s fetal debris in the measles vaccine.”

When asked whether he would recommend the measles vaccine, Kennedy said, “I’m going to tell the truth about everything we know and we don’t know about vaccines.”

“I am not going to just tell people everything is safe and effective if I know that there are issues,” Kennedy added. “I need to respect people’s intelligence.” Kennedy’s children are vaccinated — a decision he has previously said he regrets.

In a separate exchange, Kennedy also claimed that only the Covid vaccine has been tested in a placebo-controlled trial.

Since the beginning of the year, which would coincide with when Trump took office, there have been 1,023 cases of measles, and Kennedy has been pushing all of these wacky, unproven, poppycock remedies including “a steroid called budesonide, an antibiotic called clarithromycin and cod liver oil, a supplement high in vitamin A,” NBC News reports. 

Meanwhile none of these treat measles and no expert, you know people doctors who study this stuff, even remotely agree with Kennedy’s dumb ass. In fact, if you take too much Vitamin A, it could cause nausea, vomiting, and liver damage.  

But this is what happens when you appoint a man who has no medical training and believes in the school of “trust me, bro” to be the Health and Human Services Secretary.  

“The problem is that the top line of his job description is the nation’s chief health strategist,” Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said during a call with reporters Wednesday, NBC News reports. “His job is to give people the best advice that he can.”

And the problem is that no one, not even his own grandchildren, whom he let swim in a body of water so infected that the park service has an advisory against it, can trust anything this man says. 

Kennedy shouldn’t even listen to his own advice, which is going to be super hard with three ears.

SEE ALSO:

RFK Jr. Peddles Covid Vaccine Conspiracy Theories

HHS Nominee RFK Jr. Defends Racist Vaccine Theory

window.addEventListener(‘interaction’, function () {
setTimeout(function () {
var s = document.createElement(‘script’), el = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[ 0 ];
s.async = true;
s.src = ‘https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;
el.parentNode.insertBefore(s, el);
}, 1000)
});