“Don’t be a part of the Deep State,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr told employees at the FDA on Friday.
Kennedy visited the agency headquarters at Silver Spring, Maryland to address staff directly. He claimed the agency had been captured by the industries it regulates and become a “sock puppet.”
“President Trump always talks about the deep state,” Kennedy said.
“And the media, you know, disparages him and says that he’s paranoid or conspiracy theory, but the deep state is real. And it’s not, you know, just George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a in a room and plotting the, you know, the destruction of humanity.”
Kennedy told employees this industry capture was a significant cause of the explosion in chronic diseases in recent decades. He added that they should call out their superiors if they approve “something that shouldn’t be approved.”
He then brought up the infamous Milgram electroshock experiments, in which ordinary people were encouraged to administer what they thought were lethal shocks to others, purely on the basis of an “expert’s” say-so. He urged them to be part of the moral minority who refused to administer lethal shocks.
“I want you to see yourself as part of that 33%… You’re not here to take orders,” Kennedy said.
Multiple outlets, including Axios, have reported that FDA employees walked out of the address before it was finished.
At a cabinet meeting last week, Secretary Kennedy announced a “massive” research project into the causes of autism, which will report its findings in September.