Misleading
Amid measles outbreak in Texas, RFK Jr. misleads on measles vaccine safety in Fox News interview
Claim:
Measles vaccine causes deaths every year and the same illnesses caused by measles
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Source: Fox News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2025-03-11 -
UnsupportedHealth risks associated with pesticide chlormequat on oat- and wheat-based food products require further investigation
Claim:
Chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats may cause infertility and delayed puberty
Source: Twitter, New York Post, Facebook, Shannon Thaler, Social media user, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2024-02-15 -
MisleadingPeople can sue manufacturers for injury following routine childhood vaccines, contrary to a claim by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Claim:
“As long as you take an Emergency Use [vaccine], you can’t sue them. Once they get approved, now you can sue them—unless they can get it recommended for children”
Source: The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-12-22 -
UnsupportedEvent 201 isn’t evidence that authorities knew or planned the COVID-19 pandemic
Claim:
Event 201 is evidence that officials already knew about COVID-19
Source: This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2022-05-11 -
MisleadingThe benefits of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and other complications outweigh the risk of myocarditis, which is higher after COVID-19 itself
Claim:
“they were not able to find a single healthy child in america that died from COVID-19 […] but one in every 2700 people are getting myocarditis”; “athletes are collapsing on playing fields as for myocarditis and it's from the vaccines”; Moderna patent filed in 2019 is linked to the pandemic
Source: This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-12-09 -
InaccurateThe CDC licences vaccine technology, but isn’t a vaccine company; the CDC doesn’t sell vaccines, it buys and distributes vaccines free of charge
Claim:
“The CDC is not an independent agency. It is a vaccine company […] The CDC owns over 20 vaccine patents. It sells about $4.6 billion of vaccines every year”.
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-02-19 -
Misleading
Frequency of deaths in elderly individuals after COVID-19 vaccination wasn’t higher than the frequency in those who weren’t vaccinated
Claim:
“Aaron’s tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of COVID vaccines.”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-01-22 -
Inaccurate
COVID-19 vaccine candidates are generally safe and effective at preventing disease; ongoing studies investigate whether the vaccine can also reduce transmission
Claim:
“They have been reducing the standards so they can pass the vaccine no matter what”; “It does not prevent transmission”
Source: This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2020-12-13 -
Inaccurate
COVID-19 is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than seasonal flu, according to current estimates
Claim:
“COVID-19 [is] less deadly than [seasonal] flu”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2020-09-27 -
Unsupported
Claim by Robert F Kennedy Jr that one “vaccine injury” occurs for every 39 vaccinations is unsupported by scientific data
Claim:
Vaccine Injuries Ratio: One for Every 39 Vaccines Administered
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2019-10-10
