Robert F Kennedy Jr
ON THE RECORD · 22 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“hidden incentives that corrupt medical judgment”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2025-08-01 · reported 2026-10-14
Kennedy posted a video on X in August 2025 criticizing what he described as hidden incentives that corrupt medical judgment.
“Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not evaluate,”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2025-08-01 · reported 2026-10-14
Kennedy claimed in a video posted on X that doctors are paid to vaccinate rather than evaluate patients.
“That’s not medicine. That’s coercion.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2025-08-01 · reported 2026-10-14
Kennedy added in the same video that paying doctors to vaccinate is coercion, not medicine.
“may even have been altogether fabricated”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-26
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, wrote on social media casting doubt on measles-associated deaths reported in Pennsylvania.
“a cheeseburger and three eggs,”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-21
Robert F Kennedy Jr spoke of his high-protein breakfast while on a quest to improve America's health.
“The Lancaster County Coroner has now publicly stated that measles caused only the second infant’s death and has also publicly stated that the infant had Amish lethal microcephaly, a rare genetic condition in which infants typically live only about six months, received palliative care continuously from birth, and died at approximately two months of age,”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-13
Kennedy relayed the Lancaster County Coroner's public statements about the circumstances of the second infant's death.
“waited for the evidence”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-13
Kennedy reportedly asked the CDC to exclude Pennsylvania's two measles deaths from its tally and later acknowledged in a social media post that the CDC waited for the evidence.
“now that we know the probable risk is, I think it’s going to be much easier for people to make healthy choices”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2026-07-15 · reported 2026-09-13
Kennedy responded to the cyclospora outbreak in mid-July, shortly before thousands more cases were reported.
“The Coroner continues to state publicly that the first infant died from a lacerated spleen, not measles.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-13
Kennedy cited the Lancaster County Coroner's public statement that the first infant died from a lacerated spleen, not measles.
“I am writing this letter to you in the hope that we might be helpful to the people of your great nation,”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2019-01-20 · reported 2026-08-27
Kennedy wrote to the Samoan prime minister expressing a desire to help the people of Samoa, in a letter on CHD letterhead dated 20 January 2019.
“between diagnoses and specific vaccination events”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2019-01-20 · reported 2026-08-27
Kennedy wrote in his letter that health information systems are rarely designed to quickly study links between diagnoses and specific vaccination events.
“the introduction of a medical informatics system”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
In a 2021 blog post on the CHD website, Kennedy explained he went to Samoa to discuss the introduction of a medical informatics system to track drug safety.
“adverse health events associated with vaccines”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2019-01-20 · reported 2026-08-27
Kennedy wrote in his letter that it was difficult to investigate adverse health events associated with vaccines in most of the world.
“I never gave any public statement about vaccines. You cannot find a single Samoan who will say I didn’t get a vaccine because of Bobby Kennedy.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
During his Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy told senators he never gave a public statement about vaccines in Samoa.
“I went there, nothing to do with vaccines. I went there to introduce a medical informatics system that would digitalize records in Samoa and make health delivery much more efficient.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Under questioning by Democratic senator Ron Wyden, Kennedy said his trip to Samoa had nothing to do with vaccines and was about introducing a medical informatics system.
“I would propose my team conduct detailed health informatics assessment in Samoa of what happened with your MMR vaccines,”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2019-01-20 · reported 2026-08-27
Kennedy wrote to the Samoan prime minister proposing his team conduct a health informatics assessment of what happened with Samoa's MMR vaccines.
“My purpose in the trip was not to – I ended up having conversations with people, some of whom I never intended to meet.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Upon further questioning during his confirmation hearings, Kennedy again denied the trip was about vaccines and said he ended up having conversations with people he never intended to meet.
“My purpose in going down there had nothing to do with vaccines.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
When Democratic senator Edward Markey asked about the Samoa trip, Kennedy denied it had anything to do with vaccines.
“were curious to measure health outcomes following the ‘natural experiment’ created by the national respite from vaccines”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
In a 2021 blog post, Kennedy said Samoan officials were curious to measure health outcomes following the national respite from vaccines.
“detailed health informatics assessment”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said 2019-01-20 · reported 2026-08-27
In his letter to the Samoan prime minister, Kennedy said his team wanted to evaluate vaccine lot issues through a detailed health informatics assessment.
“nothing to do with vaccines”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Kennedy told lawmakers during congressional confirmation hearings that his 2019 visit to Samoa had nothing to do with vaccines.
“The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-22
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amended the CDC website with an assertion linking vaccines to autism.