Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a crowd at the Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group he co-founded, that his agency is examining aircraft emissions in relation to so-called 'chemtrails.' The crowd applauded as he described looking into potential health impacts from these emissions, echoing a long-debunked conspiracy theory that planes spray chemicals for population control or weather manipulation.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-18
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to give a keynote speech at a sold-out Washington, DC conference hosted by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group he formerly led. He'll share the stage with Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher who lost his medical license after publishing a fraudulent study falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-14
Senate Democrats including Ed Markey and Ron Wyden say newly released documents show Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave false statements to the Senate during his 2025 confirmation hearings about his 2019 trip to Samoa, where he was a leading anti-vaccine activist before a measles outbreak killed 83 people, mostly young children. Wyden called the discrepancy a crime and urged the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation, while Markey called it part of a broader pattern of dishonesty.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-28