{"id":12858662,"date":"2026-03-03T06:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12858662"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:18:53","slug":"rfk-jr-lied-his-way-into-office-and-american-health-is-the-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/03\/03\/rfk-jr-lied-his-way-into-office-and-american-health-is-the-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Post header\">\n<h2 dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theunpopulist.net\/p\/rfk-jr-lied-his-way-into-office-and?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim<\/a><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-paddingBottom-16 pc-reset\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Post UFI\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-paddingTop-16 pc-paddingBottom-16 pc-justifyContent-space-between pc-alignItems-center pc-reset\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-12 pc-alignItems-center pc-reset byline-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-reset\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-row pc-gap-8 pc-alignItems-center pc-justifyContent-flex-start pc-reset\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-row pc-alignItems-center pc-justifyContent-flex-start pc-reset ltr-qDBmby\">By <a class=\"pencraft pc-reset decoration-hover-underline-ClDVRM reset-IxiVJZ\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@mattjj89\">Matt Johnson, The UnPopulist\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/\" rel=\"\">chairs<\/a>\u00a0and is the face of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). A physician, Cassidy has been a vocal advocate of vaccines and even ran a vaccination campaign in his home state. \u201cAfter seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases,\u201d Cassidy said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cassidy.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cassidy-delivers-floor-speech-in-support-of-rfk-jr-to-be-hhs-secretary\/\" rel=\"\">speech<\/a>, \u201cI dedicated much of my time to vaccine research and immunization programs. &#8230; Put simply, vaccines save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also cast a key vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a fervent anti-vaccine advocate, as HHS secretary last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theunpopulist.net\/p\/rfk-jr-lied-his-way-into-office-and?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringo Chiu, Shutterstock, The UnPopulist illustrationSen. Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, chairs and is the face of the Senate Committee on \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12858664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25541,26294,26922,21,1,12,25391,26281],"tags":[26297,1335,371,858],"class_list":{"0":"post-12858662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biotech","8":"category-health","9":"category-market-news","10":"category-available","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"category-phils-favorites","13":"category-members-corner","14":"category-sciences","15":"tag-biotech","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858690,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858662\/revisions\/12858690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12858664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12858662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}