RFK JR continues to make dubious health claims as CDC Roils under his leadership | Robert F Kennedy Jr

Amid the chaos of the CDC’s week, Donald TrumpMinister of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr Continue to make suspicious medical and health claims – and be slammed by experts and lawmakers.

Kennedy has been face After increasing calls for his resignation Trump administration‘ shooting CDC Director Susan Monarez prompts four other top officials Exit the agency. The chaos in the US health agency is also Kennedy issued A series of controversial and contradictory rules surrounding the Covid-19 vaccine.

Aside from all this unrest, Kennedy was also vehemently opposed to a handful of eccentric rhetoric and revelations, which only exacerbated the controversy surrounding his leadership in the health department.

Kennedy has suggested that psychiatric drugs could lead to an increase in gun violence nationwide following a deadly mass school shooting in Minneapolis this week.

During Fox & Friends’ appearance, host Brian Kilmeade asked Kennedy if the health department was investigating whether drugs used to treat gender dysphoria might be related to school shootings.

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In response to Kilmead’s question, Kennedy said in a situation where the U.S. has not yet acknowledged the popularity and accessibility of guns across the United States that his department is “starting research on the potential contribution of SSRI” [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors] drugs and some other psychiatric drugs that can cause violence”.

Kennedy’s comments sparked criticism from Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, who participated in X and Write: “I dare you go to report school and tell us the sad community that guns don’t actually kill kids, antidepressants. Shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. Should be fired.”

This week, Kennedy also suggested he could check out the “mitochondrial challenge” for airport children.

Kennedy spoke at an event in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: “When I walked across the street, I was looking at the kids, I saw these kids just suffered from the burden of mitochondrial challenges, the inflammation was full of inflammation, and on the surface you could start from their physical movements, show them physically and have no idea about social interaction and my social situation.

In response, Ashish Jha, a former White House response coordinator under the Biden administration, explain: “Sorry, but what?”

“It’s weird, flat, voodoo stuff, people. It’s not normal,” Jha added on X.

Then, in a revelation Thursday, Demetre Daskalakis recently resigned as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases in protest of Monarez’s firing and revealed that Kennedy had never briefed CDC experts before making a major public health decision.

Speech “I think the secretary is another important thing, is the CDC experts on anything, especially measles, Covid-19, flu? I think people should ask him at the hearing,” said Daskalakis CNN, referring to the hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.

Daskalakis was asked what Kennedy’s answer was, “The answer is ‘no’. No one in my center briefed him on any of these topics…he got information from somewhere, but it didn’t come from CDC experts.”

In a separate statement of the Daily Beast, Das Karakis explain: “It’s not just that he didn’t ask us. I asked us to be able to brief, his secretary’s office told me that now some people are fired and they’re happy to have us briefings and they will reach out and set them up.

Since he took up leadership roles in the health department, Kennedy (long-time anti-vaccine advocate) fired health agency staff and recreated Conspiracy Theory. Last week, more than 750 current and former employees of U.S. health agencies Signed a letter They criticized Kennedy as an “existential threat to public health.”

Health agency staff continue to accuse Kennedy of “agitating the demolition of the U.S. public health infrastructure and endangering American health by repeatedly disseminating inaccurate health information.”

This letter is Deadly shooting Earlier this month, a 30-year-old gunman fired more than 180 bullets into the building, killing a policeman and then died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. According to the Gunner’s father, the shooter has been struggling with mental health issues and has been affected by misinformation, which led him to believe that the Covid-19-19 vaccine has made him sick.