Washington:
Robert F. Kennedy JR faces a fundamental audience of the Senate on Wednesday, where he will look out in his story of promoting the erroneous information of vaccines and plans Donald Trump. His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, called him a “predator”, urging the senators to reject him.
If confirmed, the 71 -year -old Kennedy family and the former environment Potential that the flu notice a human pandemic.
Critics have described it dangerously without qualifying, citing their promotion of discredited claims that link measles against autism, their suggestion that HIV does not cause AIDS, their financial interests in law firms that demand pharmaceutical companies And more.
His decision to support Trump after retiring from the race led to the conviction of his brothers, and on Tuesday, his cousin Caroline Kennedy published a scathing letter to the senators, urging them to reject him and call him “predator” that took younger relatives The path of drug addiction.
“His basement, his garage and his bedroom were the centers of the action where the drugs were available, and enjoyed showing how he put the chickens and mice in the blender to feed their hawks,” Kennedy, a former ambassador and daughter of the daughter of the former murdered president John F. Kennedy.
At the same time, the former Democrat has obtained praise from his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda (Maha), which Riff in the slogan “Make America Great Again” by Trump and emphasizes the fighting the epidemic of chronic diseases of the nation through of healthier food and prioritization well -being.
To complicate its path to confirmation, a conservative group founded by former vice president Mike Pence has raised concerns about Kennedy’s past donations to organizations that support access to abortion, a problem that could alienate Republicans and endanger their possibilities to obtain the necessary 50 votes.
“His position on multiple health problems goes against established scientific knowledge, and these are huge red flags,” Syra Madad, epidemiologist and a member of the Harvard Belfer center, told AFP.
– Vaccine opposition –
Although he has tried to soften his skepticism of the vaccine in recent months, Kennedy, or “RFK JR”, as is widely known, spent two decades promoting vaccine conspiracy theories, especially around the COVID-19 shots, which he called The “most done made”
He has also declared that he drinks exclusively raw milk, claiming that “human health progresses”, a position that maintains even when the avian flu spreads among American cattle and it has been shown that it contaminates non -pasteurized milk.
Another frequent objective of its anger is the presence of fluoride in the public supplies of water of the nation, introduced in the mid -twentieth century to reduce dental cavities.
While its criticism of this practice has generated controversy, it also has the support of some in the scientific community that question whether the benefits of water fluoration exceed potential neurotoxic risks, particularly because fluoride is now available through the pasta of teeth.
– Strange behavior –
Kennedy initially run as an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential elections, burning the campaign with a series of strange revelations and acceleration of holders.
His claim to recover from a parasite brain worm, made during a divorce sport, resurfaced in a New York Times report.
He also launched a video that admitted that, a decade before, he had placed a six -month -old bear puppy in Central Park after initially planning to comb it for meat.
Meanwhile, a government agency initiated an investigation into a claim made by his daughter that Kennedy had used a chainsaw to decapitate a dead whale.
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