RFK Jr.: Face of the Antivaxxer Movement

RFK Jr. has made millions by spreading conspiracy theories about vaccines at the cost of people’s lives, targeting marginalized communities with his dangerous rhetoric. His claims have been thoroughly debunked by scientists, but the misinformation he spreads — just like Donald Trump’s anti-science rhetoric — is a grave danger to our public health.

• RFK Jr. is “one of the country’s most prominent anti-vaccine activists.” 
• RFK Jr. has made a fortune off of dangerous and debunked conspiracy theories that encourage parents not to vaccinate their children.
• RFK Jr. sued, lobbied, and held rallies against school vaccine mandates, even while a measles epidemic raged.
• RFK Jr. called the COVID-19 vaccine a “crime against humanity” and sued the FDA to stop it.
• RFK Jr. has specifically targeted the Black community with his anti-COVID vaccine work and made money off of it.

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• RFK Jr. has been the face of the anti-vax movement and has made false and misleading claims for years that push debunked conspiracies about vaccines that have been proven safe.
• Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group RFK Jr. founded, is a “leading spreader of anti-vaccine falsehoods” which was removed by Facebook and Instagram for spreading medical misinformation.
• RFK Jr. has claimed vaccines cause autism, which has been proven to be false. He has also blamed vaccines for autoimmune diseases, developmental disorders, and allergies.
• RFK Jr. has made more than $1.9 million in salary for pushing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories at Children’s Health Defense, and he personally stands to profit from anti-vaccine lawsuits.
• RFK Jr. led a failed federal lawsuit to end school vaccine requirements.
• RFK Jr. traveled to Samoa to support anti-vaccine activists, and shortly afterward a measles outbreak killed 83 people.
• RFK Jr. sued the FDA, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t work.
• RFK Jr. claimed the COVID-19 vaccine “cost lives” and called COVID-19 vaccination “a crime against humanity.”
• RFK Jr. pushed COVID-19 anti-vax conspiracy theories that targeted the Black community and raised money by doing so, even though Black Americans were twice as likely to die from COVID-19.