Questions for RFK Jr.’s Senate Confirmation: Part III

RFK Jr. will soon be asked questions about heading the Department of Health and Human Services. Here are some suggestions.

Mr. Kennedy, you have been nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest department in the United States government. HHS has an annual budget of $1.85 trillion and supervises 80,000 employees. I have some concerns about your appointment.

Question #1: In your book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and the Public Health, you side with several AIDS denialists on whether HIV causes AIDS. You claim that AIDS wasn’t widely spread, wasn’t transmitted from person-to-person, was most likely caused by recreational drugs like poppers (amyl nitrite) or the anti-viral drug AZT (zidovudine). In fact, you said that the use of AZT to treat AIDS was an example of “mass murder.” Recently, Bill Gates met with President Trump to discuss treatment strategies to eliminate AIDS worldwide.

Do you still believe that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS? And, if so, would you recommend discontinuing the use of anti-retroviral drugs for AIDS patients both in the United States and the world, countering the Gates initiative?

Question #2: The next question is something I thought I would never ask someone who was being considered to head HHS. It appears, according to your book, The Real Anthony Fauci, that you don’t believe in the germ theory—that specific germs cause specific diseases and that the prevention or treatment of those germs can be lifesaving. Decrying the germ theory, you wrote, “The ubiquity of pasteurization and vaccination are only two of the many indicators of the domineering ascendancy of germ theory as the cornerstone of contemporary public policy. A $1 trillion pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons and the powerful professions of virology and vaccinology.” Rather, you believe “that one only needs to fortify the immune system through nutrition and reduce exposures to environmental toxins to prevent infections.”

Your apparent disdain for the germ theory explains why you believe that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, that no vaccine is beneficial, and that raw milk is safer than pasteurized milk, despite the risks of bacterial infections such as Salmonella and Listeria.

I can’t believe I am asking this question, but could you please reassure this committee and the American public that you believe in the germ theory and that the prevention and treatment of specific bacteria and viruses through pasteurization and vaccination are lifesaving public health measures?