RFK Jr. Just Admitted He's Not Very Good At His Job

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to bash thing bonzer for a person connected Wednesday: He admitted he’s not the champion idiosyncratic for his job.

The arguable Health and Human Services caput made his seeming confession of incompetence while testifying earlier a House subcommittee.

Wisconsin Democrat Rep. Mark Pocan asked RFK Jr., a notorious anti-vaxxer, astir whether he’d see vaccinating his kids if they were inactive young against a fig of preventable diseases, specified arsenic measles, chickenhearted pox and polio.

Kennedy said he’d see the measles vaccine but different avoided straight answering the question, saying helium “didn’t privation to springiness advice,” seemingly unaware that 1 of the responsibilities of furniture secretaries is to connection information, recommendations and opinions based connected their department’s expertise.

Instead, helium offered a baffling quote, the benignant that inspires memes and becomes infamous.

“I don’t deliberation radical should beryllium taking aesculapian proposal from me,” Kennedy said, suggesting radical marque their ain decisions.

And, yes, there’s video.

Pocan was puzzled by Kennedy’s remark since, arsenic the congressman pointed out, “That is benignant of your jurisdiction. Because [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which HHS oversees] does springiness advice.”

However, Kennedy mightiness person been connected to something, considering that helium regularly makes mendacious claims. At Wednesday’s proceeding alone, helium incorrectly said that the chickenhearted pox vaccine utilized successful the U.S. is not utilized successful Europe and that fluoride makes radical “stupider.”

Not surprisingly, galore radical connected societal media mocked Kennedy’s admittance that he’s not a bully root for aesculapian information.

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