Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday suggested that vaccine research was responsible for the HIV and the Spanish flu, among other illnesses, Rolling Stone reports.
The conspiracy theorist and longshot presidential candidate made the remarks during a panel discussion live-streamed on Rumble, the video streaming platform known to be preferred by far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists.
Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramírez described the event as a “panel of health misinformation superstars” gathered for “a roundtable discussion that suggested his medical conspiracism will be a key component of his 2024 presidential run.”
Kennedy also attributed Lyme disease to the list of illnesses he blames on vaccine research.
He also described what an RFK Jr. presidency would look like.
“I will end all gain-of-function research [as president],” Kennedy said. “It’s just a disaster, it’s given us no benefits. It’s given us everything from Lyme disease to Covid, and many many other diseases. RSV, which is now one of the biggest killers of children, came out of a vaccine lab.”
“We can go down the whole list of diseases,” he added. “There’s even good evidence that even Spanish flu came from vaccine research.”
Kennedy offered no evidence to back his astonishing claims.
“…the medical research on these diseases and vaccine research has actually created some of the worst plagues in our history,” he said.
“Anybody who reads The River will come away pretty much convinced that HIV also came from a vaccine program, there’s plenty of evidence on that as well.”
