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I’m pro-science. Real science asks questions; it doesn’t silence them. When government bureaucrats declare “case closed” and crush debate, that’s not science. It’s authoritarianism. Credit to Secretary Kennedy for doing what HHS should’ve done decades ago: follow the evidence, not the narrative. Science is supposed to be objective.

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Neil Stone1 year ago

@SecKennedy This is the "did the Holocaust really happen - why can't we just ask questions?" tactic

Children’s Health Defense1 year ago

@SecKennedy Thank you for all your work to restore truth in government, Senator.

Brian Mistrot1 year ago

@SecKennedy Yeah but is he following the evidence? Or is he starting with a preconceived outcome and backfilling anecdotal data to prove it? Is he asking questions or creating doubt?

Brian Hooker, PhD1 year ago

@TexansforRFKJr @SecKennedy The funny part is when Pharma babe @SenBillCassidy asks RFK Jr. to take a solemn oath that vaccines don’t cause autism… like Secretary Kennedy is going to join his little cult or something. Sen. Cassidy, your condemnation is well deserved.

CLP1 year ago

@SecKennedy “Real science asks questions; it doesn’t silence them” EXACTLY!!!

David Harsanyi1 year ago

@SecKennedy Following evidence? Does he follow evidence when it comes tying autism to vaccines? When he claims more people died of the polio vax than polio? When he suggests using aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin on children? etc etc. What are you talking about?

MedicineMan Pharm.D1 year ago

@SecKennedy This isn’t following the evidence…changing studies.

Charlie Jad 🇺🇸1 year ago

@SecKennedy

ApostateNate1 year ago

@SecKennedy RFK’s science record is abysmal. And so are your critical thinking skills

𝕊𝕂𝕐1 year ago

@SecKennedy You should make vaccine injury records public.

Armstrong Williams 🇺🇸1 year ago

@SecKennedy WATCH:

Jason Pepe 🇺🇸🦅1 year ago

@SecKennedy BS. If the vaccine is not safe for a baby it's not safe for anyone! NO MANDATES EVER!

DrDSteelePhD1 year ago

@SecKennedy This is nonsense.

Judie1 year ago

@SecKennedy We love you Senator Paul! Senator Cassidy is another story! I am hard pressed to find a kind word for him!!!

DogWalksMe1 year ago

@SecKennedy 80,000+ employees at HHS? Time to clean house.

David Wayne1 year ago

@SecKennedy As a nurse fired for being unvaccinated, I can attest to how authoritarians do not appreciate being encouraged towards humility. Thank you, Senator.

Woody White1 year ago

@SecKennedy Statements such as this - clear, concise, reasonable, and easy to understand - used to be the gold standard by which debates in the world’s greatest chamber were known.

Everybody is Insane1 year ago

@SecKennedy While there have been many great appointments by the Trump Administration and you have been consistent about evidence based science, RFK Jr. is a deranged leftwing environmentalist lunatic who lies and denies actual evidence and science. Remove him from his post.

Cam McHarg1 year ago

@SecKennedy People have begun to confuse science with religion and identity.

SeekingTruth4Humanity1 year ago

@SecKennedy #PharmaFascism @SecKennedy on how governments have colluded with 💉industry to force ever escalating unwanted vaccine markets on populace with #LiabilityShields distorting risk:benefit suggesting #RICO investigations-prosecutions @AaronSiriSG @FLSurgeonGen

Men With Sticks1 year ago

@SecKennedy We can't have real science or ANY nice things as long as this cabal of Malthusian technocrats is in power.

Χ☓ What the Hell❓ 🔥🔥🔥 Official1 year ago

@SecKennedy Aren't you the eye doctor that was so bad you had to form your own ophthalmology board of exams staffed by your wife and relatives in order to pass? Case closed.

MrBBBBenny1 year ago

@SecKennedy

Karen M. Sussman1 year ago

@SecKennedy

The Democrat Party Hates America1 year ago

@SecKennedy Rand, you did it again! I agree with you on two things the last couple days! ;) This, today, and the last was your calling yesterday to audit the Fed. (Though, I said that's not enough, and agree with your dad's more extreme position to END the Fed.)

Josh Leibner1 year ago

@SecKennedy So we should welcome all the Flat Earthers as genuinely curious equals. Or are there in fact times we need to explain once and then stop engaging? Seriously…Tucker Carlson’s “just asking questions” ruse is bs.

Goldni1 year ago

@SecKennedy Covid ended up being an IFR of 0.034% for those aged 0–59 and 0.095% for those 0–69. So essentially 99.966% and 99.905% survival rate

JC texas girl1 year ago

@SecKennedy Thank you! Too many just follow the money and are beholden to Big Pharma. They would rather make money and harm or kill citizens, than tell the truth about vaccines.

katie wright1 year ago

@SecKennedy Well said!!!!!!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏

kelly greene1 year ago

@SecKennedy The questions were asked and answered 🤡. You just don’t like the answers, derived from actual data. Go back to school.

Nate1 year ago

@SecKennedy My god, he’s doing the exact opposite of that. He’s making one politically motivated decision after another. Science hasn’t had anything to do with it

Steve Beauchemin1 year ago

@SecKennedy For those 1,000 who signed a petition asking for Secretary Kennedy’s resignation: - give them a 30 day opportunity to resign, or - be immediately fired at the end of those 30 days. No severance pay.

Laura1 year ago

@SecKennedy Exactly. It’s literally called the scientific method 🤦🏻‍♀️

Kaizen Ki ☀️1 year ago

@SecKennedy It's about time more voices like yours are finally rising above the anti-vaxxer noise!

Scottiev1 year ago

@SecKennedy What evidence?

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