RFK, Jr. Talks "Deep State" To FDA Staff

 

Conspiratorial quack medicine proponent and brain worm host HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., spoke to the beleaguered staff at the Food and Drug Administration yesterday and, to the concern of the audience, he sounded unhinged, according to a report in Politico:

"Over the course of 40 minutes, Kennedy, in largely off-the-cuff remarks, asserted that the 'Deep State' is real, referenced past CIA experiments on human mind control and accused the employees he was speaking to of becoming a 'sock puppet' of the industries they regulate.

'Because of my family’s commitment to these issues, I spent 200 hours at Wassaic Home for the Retarded when I was in high school,' Kennedy said, in a reference to the Wassaic State School for the Mentally Retarded in Wassaic, New York. 'So I was seeing people with intellectual disabilities all the time. I never saw anybody with autism.' [snip]

By the end of the event, billed as a welcome from the new commissioner, Marty Makary, several FDA staffers had walked out of the rooms where the speech was being broadcast at the agency’s headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, according to two employees granted anonymity for fear of retaliation.

'President Trump always talks about the Deep State, and the media, you know, disparages him and says that he’s paranoid,' Kennedy said, according to a transcript and audio of his remarks obtained by POLITICO. 'But the Deep State is real. And it’s not, you know, just George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a room and plotting the, you know, the destruction of humanity.'”  (our emphasis)

Suggesting that autism is a relatively recent phenomenon caused by vaccines, as he's often done, is a complete misunderstanding of why autism has seemed to be on the rise:

"At first glance, rising autism and ADHD diagnoses may seem like evidence of a true increase. But research points to three other drivers: changes in diagnostic criteria, greater awareness, and increased access to evaluations.

Decades ago, autism was largely understood in terms of its most visible and disabling presentations, meaning that countless individuals — especially women, people of color, and those with high-masking traits — were overlooked. Research shows, for instance, that autistic females often camouflage their autistic traits, leading to delayed or missed diagnoses."  (our emphasis)

That Kennedy is launching another "investigation" into the causes of autism, designating an anti-vax conspiracist like David Geier to head the study, likely to come up with preconceived "findings" that support Kennedy's false claims.

Kennedy's description of a "deep state" is also very troubling, particularly when he mixes in the anti-Semitic trope of George Soros "and a bunch of nefarious individuals" plotting. The "deep state" rant could have been written by Steve Bannon or Stephen Miller, for all the sense it made.

(photo: Another brain worm headache. Business Insider)