Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a bizarre swipe at sexual assault survivors while delivering a takedown of Tylenol and casting doubt on vaccines alongside President Donald Trump.
The Health Secretary briefly referenced “believe women,” a slogan popularized by the #MeToo movement, while arguing that some mothers of children with autism believe that vaccines injured their kids.
“Some of our friends like to say we should believe all women, but some of these same people have been silencing and demonizing these mothers for three decades because research on the potential link between autism and vaccines has been actively suppressed in the past,” he said.
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic whose appointment to the helm of the Health Department stirred uproar, found an ally in Trump in his quest to