TECHDIRT – It’s been a little over half a year since RFK Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services and his tenure thus far has been chaotic, to put it mildly.
Listing all of the various forms of fuckery that have already occurred under his watch would be a full length post of its own, but there are certainly some lowlights.
There was the bizarre comments about getting to the bottom of chemtrails. He presided over the largest measles outbreak in decades and essentially blamed the victims for it.
It sure looks like he had AI write up some of his MAHA health report, including references to studies that don’t exist and misinterpreting the ones that did.
But in more recent and rapid succession, he fired every member of the CDC’s ACIP panel, replaced them with anti-vaxxers, fired the head of the CDC after only a month on the job, and then concluded that pregnant mothers shouldn’t take Tylenol because it causes autism.
And we haven’t even mentioned his revising of vaccination schedules, the defunding of mRNA vaccine research, or his disaster of a congressional hearing.
There are all kinds of pressures that Donald Trump refuses to bow to, to be sure. But the man does pay attention to public sentiment polling, no matter how much hand-waiving over “fake polls” he might espouse. And Kennedy’s public approval ratings are fucking terrible.
The findings come from the most recent Quinnipiac University poll released this month, which surveyed around 1,200 registered voters across the country.
Exactly 33% of respondents said they currently approved of Kennedy’s stint as HHS secretary, while 54% disapproved.
The numbers are a noticeable drop from a similar poll conducted earlier this year, prior to the internal collapse of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set off by RFK Jr.’s antivaccine agenda …
