Over 15,000 Doctors Urge Senate to Block RFK Jr.’s Nomination as Health Secretary

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In a powerful show of opposition, more than 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of health and human services. The letter, widely circulated by the physicians' advocacy group Committee to Protect Health Care, describes Kennedy’s nomination by President-elect Donald Trump as "a slap in the face" to healthcare professionals across the country.

 

“The health and well-being of 336 million Americans depend on leadership at HHS that prioritizes science, evidence-based medicine, and the integrity of our public health system,” the letter asserts. “RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.”

 

Kennedy’s well-documented promotion of anti-vaccine rhetoric and other debunked medical claims are central to the doctors' concerns. The letter highlights his propagation of baseless conspiracy theories, including a supposed link between school shootings and antidepressants and his advocacy for unproven COVID-19 treatments.

 

“This appointment is a slap in the face to every healthcare professional who has dedicated their lives to protecting patients from preventable illness and death,” the letter continues.

 

Amid growing controversy, Kennedy has been meeting with senators from both parties on Capitol Hill ahead of his yet-to-be-scheduled confirmation hearing. Given the Senate's current composition, Kennedy would need nearly unanimous Republican support if all Democrats oppose his confirmation.

 

Kennedy’s camp, however, has downplayed the backlash. When asked about the opposition from the medical community, Kennedy's spokesperson, Katie Miller, dismissed the outcry as “just another grift” aimed at generating donations for advocacy groups. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be confirmed, and those who are spending their time undermining him will have no place and no voice at HHS,” Miller stated via text.

 

The letter from the doctors is part of a broader campaign that includes urging healthcare professionals to contact their senators and organizations like the American Medical Association. Protect Our Care, a liberal nonprofit advocating for the preservation of the Affordable Care Act, also launched a campaign underscoring Kennedy’s controversial trip to Samoa in 2019, just before a deadly measles outbreak that claimed the lives of 83 people, mostly children. Hawaii Governor Josh Green, a physician, penned an op-ed in The New York Times, attributing Kennedy’s vaccine misinformation as a contributing factor to the outbreak and warning against his appointment to the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Organizations such as Community Catalyst and Public Citizen have echoed these warnings, labeling Kennedy as “wholly unqualified” and “a dangerous pick” who could “endanger people’s lives.”

 

Meanwhile, Kennedy’s supporters and the American Values 2024 PAC argue that the opposition is driven by pharmaceutical companies seeking to stifle Kennedy’s efforts to reform public health. Yet, Dr. Rob Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Health Care, counters this narrative, stating that their organization has consistently opposed Big Pharma’s interests, including efforts to lower prescription drug prices.

 

“Kennedy presents a clear and present danger,” Davidson stated, reflecting the sentiment of thousands of doctors who believe that his leadership could jeopardize public health in America.

 

Based on a report by NBC 2024-01-14

 

 

[zepplin]

5 hours ago, Social Media said:

 

In a powerful show of opposition, more than 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of health and human services. The letter, widely circulated by the physicians' advocacy group Committee to Protect Health Care, describes Kennedy’s nomination by President-elect Donald Trump as "a slap in the face" to healthcare professionals across the country.

 

“The health and well-being of 336 million Americans depend on leadership at HHS that prioritizes science, evidence-based medicine, and the integrity of our public health system,” the letter asserts. “RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.”

 

 

Kennedy’s well-documented promotion of anti-vaccine rhetoric and other debunked medical claims are central to the doctors' concerns. The letter highlights his propagation of baseless conspiracy theories, including a supposed link between school shootings and antidepressants and his advocacy for unproven COVID-19 treatments.

 

“This appointment is a slap in the face to every healthcare professional who has dedicated their lives to protecting patients from preventable illness and death,” the letter continues.

 

Amid growing controversy, Kennedy has been meeting with senators from both parties on Capitol Hill ahead of his yet-to-be-scheduled confirmation hearing. Given the Senate's current composition, Kennedy would need nearly unanimous Republican support if all Democrats oppose his confirmation.

 

Kennedy’s camp, however, has downplayed the backlash. When asked about the opposition from the medical community, Kennedy's spokesperson, Katie Miller, dismissed the outcry as “just another grift” aimed at generating donations for advocacy groups. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be confirmed, and those who are spending their time undermining him will have no place and no voice at HHS,” Miller stated via text.

 

The letter from the doctors is part of a broader campaign that includes urging healthcare professionals to contact their senators and organizations like the American Medical Association. Protect Our Care, a liberal nonprofit advocating for the preservation of the Affordable Care Act, also launched a campaign underscoring Kennedy’s controversial trip to Samoa in 2019, just before a deadly measles outbreak that claimed the lives of 83 people, mostly children. Hawaii Governor Josh Green, a physician, penned an op-ed in The New York Times, attributing Kennedy’s vaccine misinformation as a contributing factor to the outbreak and warning against his appointment to the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Organizations such as Community Catalyst and Public Citizen have echoed these warnings, labeling Kennedy as “wholly unqualified” and “a dangerous pick” who could “endanger people’s lives.”

 

Meanwhile, Kennedy’s supporters and the American Values 2024 PAC argue that the opposition is driven by pharmaceutical companies seeking to stifle Kennedy’s efforts to reform public health. Yet, Dr. Rob Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Health Care, counters this narrative, stating that their organization has consistently opposed Big Pharma’s interests, including efforts to lower prescription drug prices.

 

“Kennedy presents a clear and present danger,” Davidson stated, reflecting the sentiment of thousands of doctors who believe that his leadership could jeopardize public health in America.

 

Based on a report by NBC 2024-01-14

 

 

The only clear danger is the doctors who get paid big money to inject as many vaccines as possible into babies and dumb adults! 
70 vaccines in the USA, I. Thailand is about 7!  And all the conspiracy people who were told they are crazy, because they stood up against getting vaccinated, are now all proven to be right! 
go RFK ! Clean up the cesspool that is big pharma in the USA!!

[mdr224]

MSM still using the experts strategy. Trumps election showed everybody that the experts arent credible anymore

[Chomper Higgot]

20 minutes ago, zepplin said:

The only clear danger is the doctors who get paid big money to inject as many vaccines as possible into babies and dumb adults! 
70 vaccines in the USA, I. Thailand is about 7!  And all the conspiracy people who were told they are crazy, because they stood up against getting vaccinated, are now all proven to be right! 
go RFK ! Clean up the cesspool that is big pharma in the USA!!

“The childhood vaccine schedule includes 15 different immunizations (shots or drops). Some vaccines protect against more than one disease. Some require more than one dose.”

 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11288-childhood-immunization-schedule

[Chomper Higgot]

2 minutes ago, mdr224 said:

MSM still using the experts strategy. Trumps election showed everybody that the experts arent credible anymore

Disease doesn’t listen to political diatribes.

 

[Hamus Yaigh]

17 minutes ago, mdr224 said:

Trumps election showed everybody that the experts arent credible anymore

I would suggest picking a conspiracy theorist over science for health secretary shows the electorate now display a  lack of critical thinking skills, from years of disinformation campaigns and social media echo chambers have eroded trust in reliable sources of information. That is clear also on forums like this which leads to tribalism in the US where many voters now see politics as a zero-sum game where its either “owning the libs” or “defeating the MAGA crowd”.

 

Schools have a responsibility here as well. People today are often digitally savvy but lack the critical thinking skills necessary to distinguish reliable information online from fake news or conspiracy theories.

[Stiddle Mump]

Of course these white-coats don't want RFK jr. Their cushy jobs are at risk.

 

Changes in the understanding of health matters are long overdue. Is Kennedy the guy to do it?  These (compromised?) white-coats seem to think so.

 

We will soon see,

[Hummin]

1 hour ago, zepplin said:

The only clear danger is the doctors who get paid big money to inject as many vaccines as possible into babies and dumb adults! 
70 vaccines in the USA, I. Thailand is about 7!  And all the conspiracy people who were told they are crazy, because they stood up against getting vaccinated, are now all proven to be right! 
go RFK ! Clean up the cesspool that is big pharma in the USA!!

70 mandatory vaccines? 

 

Show us the list of mandatory vaccines in Usa

 

If it's true, I will start believing in the conspiracy 

 

Mandatory vaccines in Norway 

https://www.helsenorge.no/en/information-in-english/vaccination-of-children/

[BE88]

 

15,000 doctors paid by Big Pharma, which pays very well if you have an easy shot with a good bank account

[Yagoda]

The Committee to Protect Health Care who circulated this letter is a radical Socialist organization that hates the USA and promotes censorship, genital mutilation of children, adoption of children by Homosexuals, terrorism, Hamas, socialized medicine, Orwellian vaccine mandates and DEI. 

 

Consider the source. Check out the hijab doctor.

https://committeetoprotect.org/our-story/

[ElwoodP]

Use his real name or your posts will be removed!

@newbee2022

[Walker88]

That whole Francis Bacon and his Scientific Method are just so 16th Century. Doctors and scientists...what do they know about anything?

 

It's time we went back to bloodletting, leeches or stable geniuses who know that an injection of disinfectant cures Covid in a snap.

 

Embrace ignorance. It's all the rage now, with RFK, Jr and his boss leading the way back to the Dark Ages.

[RocketDog]

1 hour ago, mdr224 said:

MSM still using the experts strategy. Trumps election showed everybody that the experts arent credible anymore

All truth/credibility flows from Dear Leader I presume?

LOL.

[Justanotherone]

who here knows that the pediatrician gets 'incentives' aka a big fat bonus, he can fully vaccinate a certain amount of kids....

 

zero of them know anything about interactions with all the vaccines, 

 

and NO ONE EVER DID CLINICAL TRIALS for all the shots together...

[Stiddle Mump]

34 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

That whole Francis Bacon and his Scientific Method are just so 16th Century. Doctors and scientists...what do they know about anything?

 

It's time we went back to bloodletting, leeches or stable geniuses who know that an injection of disinfectant cures Covid in a snap.

 

Embrace ignorance. It's all the rage now, with RFK, Jr and his boss leading the way back to the Dark Ages.

What back to last week when we are still seeing a poison put into our water, and metals in our medicines?

 

Nature has all the answers. No need to listen to compromised white-coats.

[CallumWK]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

“The childhood vaccine schedule includes 15 different immunizations (shots or drops). Some vaccines protect against more than one disease. Some require more than one dose.”

 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11288-childhood-immunization-schedule

 

Nice selective reading from you, as usual, to make your woke points. Or maybe you considered dumb adults to be children because of their state of mind?

 

2 hours ago, zepplin said:

inject as many vaccines as possible into babies and dumb adults! 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

2 hours ago, zepplin said:

The only clear danger is the doctors who get paid big money to inject as many vaccines as possible into babies and dumb adults! 
70 vaccines in the USA, I. Thailand is about 7!  And all the conspiracy people who were told they are crazy, because they stood up against getting vaccinated, are now all proven to be right! 
go RFK ! Clean up the cesspool that is big pharma in the USA!!

You beat me to it. I was going to post that apparently RFK poses a threat to Drs profits if they can't stick a medication that has not gone through the normal trials into people. Those same people that prescribe pain killers that kill ( opioids ).

[thaibeachlovers]

4 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Nice selective reading from you, as usual, to make your woke points.

Ain't that the truth.

[Yellowtail]

So 15,000 out of over a million. 

 

I wonder if the "doctors" are actually physicians or PhDs in gender studies or some such. 

 

Did Dr. Jill sign the letter? 

 

Not a fan of RFKJ, but the more the left attacks him. the more attractive he becomes to me. 

[Stiddle Mump]

2 hours ago, zepplin said:

The only clear danger is the doctors who get paid big money to inject as many vaccines as possible into babies and dumb adults! 

The dumbest of the dumb are those parents that allow the poison filth to be injected into their babies and toddlers and kids. I don't care if they get injected themselves.

[spacex]

Here's the schedule.  Feel free to count how many total injections there are.  The total amount of injections is what RFK Jr refers to, not the total amount of different chemical concoctions get injected into the body.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolescent-age.html

[Lacessit]

I guess the dentists aren't complaining about RFK's appointment, because he's going to generate more work for them.

 

I do wish RFK supporters would go on holiday in Afghanistan, to test the validity of his stance against vaccines.

 

The Congo would be another good vacation spot.

[Yellowtail]

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I guess the dentists aren't complaining about RFK's appointment, because he's going to generate more work for them.

 

I do wish RFK supporters would go on holiday in Afghanistan, to test the validity of his stance against vaccines.

 

The Congo would be another good vacation spot.

What is his stance on vaccines? 

 

 

[HappyExpat57]

The shame of it is, he's actually got some decent ideas. Get GMO's, poisonous dyes, and fructose/sucrose out of the foods. He just has too many nutty, unsubstantiated conspiracy beliefs that he wants to put in place.

 

Just like satan, he mixes truth in with the lies.

[Yellowtail]

3 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

The shame of it is, he's actually got some decent ideas. Get GMO's, poisonous dyes, and fructose/sucrose out of the foods. He just has too many nutty, unsubstantiated conspiracy beliefs that he wants to put in place.

 

Just like satan, he mixes truth in with the lies.

What are a few of the "...many nutty, unsubstantiated conspiracy beliefs that he wants to put in place."? 

[tomazbodner]

I don't think anyone is forced to go and see a doctor. You're free to self-treat a disease as long as you're isolated from others should you have an infectious disease, so nobody else suffers from your beliefs.

 

I am confident though that all in your homes, there would not be a sign of a medicine or food supplement, instead you'd be keeping lots of dried herbs, as the nature has all the answers. And before invent of medicines and treatments people lived healthy for 100s of years, it's just when all this medicine arrived, the life spans started to shrink tremendously. Surely average lifespan in 1800 was 250 years?

 

[thaibeachlovers]

11 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

I don't think anyone is forced to go and see a doctor.

I am if I don't want to stroke out and end up in a vegetative coma for years. Can't get all the important heart and suchlike medications without a prescription from a Dr ( in NZ ). It's not like Thailand and over the counter.

 

13 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

I am confident though that all in your homes, there would not be a sign of a medicine or food supplement, instead you'd be keeping lots of dried herbs, as the nature has all the answers

My mother never went to see a Dr and used herbs etc till her foot went black and her leg had to be amputated due to out of control diabetes. It killed her too.

I'll use pharma thanks.

15 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

And before invent of medicines and treatments people lived healthy for 100s of years,

LOL. Before pharma people died at 40 or less. Only the rich lived long.

 

Here you go

 

https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php

In medieval England, life expectancy at birth for boys born to families that owned land was a mere 31.3 years

[cdemundo]

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

The Committee to Protect Health Care who circulated this letter is a radical Socialist organization that hates the USA and promotes censorship, genital mutilation of children, adoption of children by Homosexuals, terrorism, Hamas, socialized medicine, Orwellian vaccine mandates and DEI. 

 

Consider the source. Check out the hijab doctor.

https://committeetoprotect.org/our-story/

"a radical Socialist organization that hates the USA and promotes censorship, genital mutilation of children, adoption of children by Homosexuals, terrorism, Hamas, socialized medicine, Orwellian vaccine mandates and DEI. "

 

One great thing about having this discussion online is not getting hit by the spittle spray when certain types spew statements like this.

[Yellowtail]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I am if I don't want to stroke out and end up in a vegetative coma for years. Can't get all the important heart and suchlike medications without a prescription from a Dr ( in NZ ). It's not like Thailand and over the counter.

 

My mother never went to see a Dr and used herbs etc till her foot went black and her leg had to be amputated due to out of control diabetes. It killed her too.

I'll use pharma thanks.

LOL. Before pharma people died at 40 or less. Only the rich lived long.

 

Here you go

 

https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php

In medieval England, life expectancy at birth for boys born to families that owned land was a mere 31.3 years

While I am a fan of big pharma, it has not been that long that people knew not to bathe/toilet in their drinking water and that doctors knew to wash their hands. 

 

Two hundred years ago, the rich did not really have access to better medicine than the poor. 

[Yellowtail]

10 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

"a radical Socialist organization that hates the USA and promotes censorship, genital mutilation of children, adoption of children by Homosexuals, terrorism, Hamas, socialized medicine, Orwellian vaccine mandates and DEI. "

 

One great thing about having this discussion online is not getting hit by the spittle spray when certain types spew statements like this.

Another great thing about it is that you can just attack the person making the claim (which any moron can do effortlessly) and not have to attack the claim, which takes a bit of effort.