RFK Jr.’s ‘Scary’ And ‘Deluded’ Rant About Experts Resurfaces Amid CDC Turmoil
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The health secretary’s talk about what is and isn’t a “feature of science” and democracy stunned critics online.
Comments that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. made about “experts” are going viral again amid the ongoing unrest at the Centers for Disease Control, which is under his leadership.
With resignations, firings and reported growing internal frustrations at the CDC over Kennedy’s management, multiple accounts on X (formerly Twitter) this weekend recirculated footage of Kennedy’s June interview with former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in which he declared:
“My opinion, I always tell people, is irrelevant. We, you know, people, we need to stop trusting the experts. Right. We were told at the beginning of COVID don’t look at any data yourself, don’t do any investigation yourself. Just trust the experts. And trusting the experts is not a feature of science. It’s not a feature of democracy. It’s a feature of religion and it’s a feature of totalitarianism. In democracies, we have the obligation, and it’s one of the burdens of citizenship to do our own research and make our own determinations about things.”
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The remarks from noted vaccine skeptic Kennedy stunned people online:
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