# Could RFK Jr. Really Become HHS Secretary? {Yes, he did} **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 30, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451 "2024-10-30T16:19:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/262 "2025-05-31T18:44:05Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Gingivitis is. Gingervitis is the genetic disease that causes the soul to die in the womb. Gingrichitis is an even worse soul-killer. I saw a nice take-off on Trump press secretary and chief ass-kisser Karoline Leavitt’s excuse for the phony literature citations in the MAHA report. She said she understood there had been a “formatting” problem. 😆 The cartoon posted on Twitter shows Clippy the Microsoft Word assistant saying “I notice you’re writing a report. Would you like me to invent some journal articles to use as references?” \*alternate Clippy: [![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/884/455/9ad.jpg) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/884/455/9ad.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/263 "2025-06-09T20:43:57Z")
> **[RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/rfk-jr-cdc-panel-vaccines.html)** Supposedly because so many of these members have conflicts of interest. I wonder if the new members will all be anti-vaccine quacks. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/264 "2025-06-09T20:49:33Z")
I don’t wonder about that. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/265 "2025-06-09T21:25:34Z")
Judging by Junior’s selection of pretend doctor and virulent antivaxer David Geier to lead a vaccine-autism study, yes - all the new ACIP members will be antivaccine cranks, frauds and grifters. Sherri Tenpenny (“Vaccines Done Magnetize You”), Russell Blaylock, Brian Hooker, James Lyons-Weiler, Thomas Cowan, Paul Thomas and a parade of similar embarrassments to medicine and science are probably drooling at the opportunity to sabotage vaccine schedules and bring disease and death to the vulnerable, especially the young, immunosuppressed and aging. Key qualifications for new ACIP candidates: having lost your medical license, had one or more published journal articles retracted for bad science, fraud and/or undisclosed conflicts of interest, and profitable supplement-selling sidelines. It’s not hyperbole - this administration really is out to kill many of us. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/266 "2025-06-09T21:37:40Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > The US SHH still has to be confirmed by the Senate. It is not only up to Trump at least. Did you really believe, when you wrote this, that Trump’s senate was going to do the right thing? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/267 "2025-06-09T22:36:04Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Did you really believe, when you wrote this, that Trump’s senate was going to do the right thing? They had limits. They weren’t going to do everything Trump asked of them, and didn’t. Otherwise we’d have AG Matt Gaetz instead of Pam Bondi. What was unknown was where that limit was. It didn’t go very far, clearly. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/268 "2025-06-10T15:58:23Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Supposedly because so many of these members have conflicts of interest. According to a talking-head on the news, the current members had to submit financial disclosures and such that would show any conflicts of interest. I doubt this will be the case for RFK, Jr.'s picks. Peddling antivax “cures” is probably a qualification. I hear some of the leading candidates are Drs. Mal Practiss, Hugh Quackman, and IM Fraud. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/269 "2025-06-10T21:08:11Z")
No worries, even though RFK Jr. is busily trying to sabotage immunization, he could be America’s Health Savior through promotion of industrial bleach. > **[The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. to Make Their Dreams Come True](https://www.wired.com/story/chlorine-dioxide-bleach-mms-autism-rfk-fda-warning/)** > > Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause. Drink bleach, bathe in it…it’ll cure what ails you. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/270 "2025-06-11T01:26:19Z")
Yeah, do all that. I have it on good authority (nutjob) that we’re all going to die anyway. Do it for SCIENCE! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/271 "2025-06-11T01:54:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Drink bleach, bathe in it…it’ll cure what ails you. One way or another, yeh. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/272 "2025-06-11T01:57:11Z")
And if it makes you sick as hell, that’s just your body detoxifying. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/273 "2025-06-11T01:57:23Z")
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I certainly feel confident this administration will respond with all appropriate vigor if we’re confronted by a virus. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/274 "2025-06-11T03:44:40Z")
Manly, godly vigor, sirrah! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/275 "2025-06-11T04:00:41Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Drink bleach, **bathe in it…** it’ll cure what ails you. Especially those skin infections that came on a few days after bathing in sewage. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/276 "2025-06-11T04:04:55Z")
The best thing for pesky infections, acne and other skin conditions is imbibing or massaging in [the holy nectar - Shivambu!](https://www.planetayurveda.com/library/human-urine-in-skin-problems/?srsltid=AfmBOorEvdETjA2TMGOF7ey6BwMwf1cqHlucklLRz9hABbJKtBO7xT3d). ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/277 "2025-06-11T15:24:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Drink bleach, bathe in it…it’ll cure what ails you. Mix is with a bit of Ivermectin and it helps it go down smoother. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/278 "2025-06-11T16:32:37Z")
If a “bit” of ivermectin fails to help, it means you didn’t use enough. Take at least the dosage recommended to kill parasites in a full-grown Percheron horse. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/279 "2025-06-11T16:39:22Z")
Im struggling with how trump and rfk & the rest profit financially from all this. Somehow they’re making gobs of money to destroy the USA’s health and science infrastructure. But how? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/280 "2025-06-11T16:51:20Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Im struggling with how trump and rfk & the rest profit financially from all this. He’s trying to satisfy the lunatic base that booed Trump for helping expedite Covid vaccine development. It might also give them a fig leaf to extort drug companies somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451/281 "2025-06-11T16:59:51Z")
RFK Jr. has made lots of money through involvement in vaccine litigation. Add in book sales, big paychecks from Children’s Health Defense (HHS Sec. pays pretty well) and the promise of even larger future fees for speaking engagements, and Junior has done well for himself. > [@](#): > > According to financial disclosure documents…Kennedy’s primary source of income in the past year were large sums of referral fees from multiple law firms, including Baum’s office, whose civil lawsuit against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine went to trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court > **[RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. But he could profit off claim in vaccine...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-hes-anti-vaccine-profit-off-vaccine/story?id=118137375)** > > RFK Jr. played a lead role in building a case against Merck's HPV vaccine and could profit from the lawsuit alleging fraud, even if confirmed as health secretary. [https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/rfk-jr-financial-disclosures](https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/rfk-jr-financial-disclosures) Trump’s role in degrading American health care seems more designed to get revenge on his enemies, stockpile political capital and wreak attention-getting chaos than to make money. But it wouldn’t be surprising if he thinks there’s money to be made as a result. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-rfk-jr-really-become-hhs-secretary-yes-he-did/1009451.md?page=15)