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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was called out by the editors of the Wall Street Journal opinion page for declaring war on Tylenol as a putative cause of autism cases, claiming he is doing it in the service of pals who will profit from the accusations.

In an editorial late Tuesday, the editors acknowledged that more research needs to be done into autism, but claimed that Kennedy is taking his department down the wrong path. And they questioned his motives.

According to some analysts, Kennedy, who has no medical training, has severely disrupted his department’s mission by firing experts and replacing them with like-minded cronies. And the Journal is now accusing him of not only sketchy science, but also possible criminality. ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. became "very upset" when the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told him that there was no science to back up his anti-vaccine claims and demands, the ex-director said.

Testifying to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, fired CDC director Susan Monarez was asked to share the conversation she had with Kennedy when he asked her to support whatever the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) said they wanted.

"The secretary in that morning meeting was very upset, very animated," Monarez recalled of the conversation. "And he said with regard to that particular topic, 'I have heard that you may not sign off on the forthcoming ACIP recommendations.' And I said, 'I cannot sign off on something before I see the data and the evidence.' And he said and elaborated on this for some period of time 'there is no data and evidence. There is no science that CDC has never collected that the data the evidence and the science associated with the safety and efficacy of vaccines.'"...

The former director for the Centers for Disease Control testified that she was fired after refusing to pre-approve recommendations from a vaccines oversight panel without consulting science or evidence.

Dr. Susan Monarez testified Wednesday morning morning before Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), where she told committee chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked her to commit to signing off on forthcoming recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

"Briefly in the first meeting, he asked me to commit to firing scientists or resign," Monarez said. "He asked me to pre-commit to signing off on each and one of the forthcoming ACIP recommendations, regardless of whether or not there was scientific evidence."...

In the middle of what was described as “The worst hearing performance I have ever seen," according to The Bulwark’s Sam Stein, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stepped in it by accusing Donald Trump of mass murder.

Discussing Health and Human Services Secretary’s combative, fact-challenged and at times contradictory testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Kennedy was tripped up when asked about Trump’s crowning achievement in his first term: Operation Warp Speed, which rushed the Covid vaccine to Americans in the midst of the pandemic.

According to “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough, who called the hearing a “bipartisan drubbing” as Republicans joined with Democrats and harshly grilled the Trump appointee, Kennedy did himself no favors with his boss....

Three hours after claiming that “reasonable people” told him that rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 “carried no weapons,” independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. retracted his statement.

“My understanding is that none of the January 6 rioters who invaded the capitol were carrying firearms was incorrect,” Kennedy said in a statement to Raw Story. “Several have been convicted of carrying firearms into the Capitol building. Others assaulted Capitol police with pepper spray, bludgeons, and other makeshift weapons. This behavior is inexcusable. I have never minimized the seriousness of the riot or any crime committed on that day.”

RELATED ARTICLE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says J6ers didn’t carry weapons. Here’s how wrong he is....

Independent presidential candidate Robert. F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign is defending the use of donor funds to pay Kennedy family members’ salaries, according to a Raw Story review of federal election records.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Kennedy, and the nephew of his wife, Jackson Hines, have appeared on the campaign’s payroll in recent months.

“Though Amaryllis and Jackson are family members of the candidate by marriage, their role is based on the functional business needs of the campaign and the work that they perform in the capacity of their role,” Team Kennedy Chief Operating Officer Matthew Sanders wrote to the Federal Election Commission on Jan. 19. “As shown above, Amaryllis and Jackson provided bona fide services to the campaign and the campaign's payments for their services were not in excess of fair market value.”...