Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. artfully refuted a TV anchor who criticized him for refusing to go along with Big Pharma’s talking points.
In a resurfaced clip from a News Nation town hall last year that’s gone viral, Kennedy was attacked as a conspiracy theorist for questioning the wisdom of pharmaceutical companies over vaccines and health advisories.
“You’re a lawyer and an activist. You’re not a doctor or a scientist,” town hall host Elizabeth Vargas told him.
Kennedy responded, “We live in a democracy. We don’t have a priesthood here. We are in charge of our own lives. And Americans need to do their own research.”
MIC DROP: RFK Jr. shuts down smug journalist's fallacious appeal to authority. đ„
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) November 9, 2024
Journalist: "You're a lawyer and an activist. You're not a doctor or a scientist."
RFK Jr: "Trusting the experts is a function of religion and totalitarianism… In democracy, we question⊠pic.twitter.com/YlUgGoXD9G
“People say, ‘trust the experts.’ That became a mantra during COVID. I brought over 500 cases, and almost all of them involved a scientific controversy. My job is to read science, learn it and be able to read it critically. And every case I ever brought, there’s an expert on that side and an expert on this side.”
“Saying trust the experts to me makes no sense at all. Trusting the experts is a function of religion and totalitarianism. It is not a function of democracy. In democracy, we question everything,” he added.
The anchor, appearing deflated, quickly tried to move on but first directed the network’s viewers to go to the network’s website to “go deeper on the science of vaccines.”
After dropping out of the presidential race as a Democrat, Kennedy was tapped by then GOP candidate Donald Trump to overhaul the public health agencies and spearhead the Make America Healthy Again initiative.
Independent research and critical thinking is not something the powers that be want becoming mainstream.
Meanwhile, top CEOs of pharmaceutical corporations recently held an emergency teleconference to respond to Trump’s decisive election victory and Kennedy’s pledge to gut the Food and Drug Administration in a second Trump administration.
đ„ Robert F. Kennedy Jr Says BIG Changes are Coming to Our Public Health Agencies on Day 1 of Trumpâs Administration
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 9, 2024
âWeâre going to change the personnel of the agencies. Weâre going to fire on day 1, or if we canât fire them we can ship them to a new HHS headquarters in Guam,⊠pic.twitter.com/XZYoi89krG
Watch the full town hall: