For the first time in modern American history, a skeptic of medical research could be responsible for safeguarding public health.

RFK Jr. claimed he is not “anti-vaccine” and appeared unfamiliar with key aspects of healthcare insurance programs in his confirmation hearing.

Like Trump, Kennedy for years has wielded a firehose of falsehoods across multiple fronts and has engaged in assorted misconduct and odd behavior, so much so that the individual lies and misdeeds zip by and blur into a mess that becomes tough for the media to thoroughly depict and hard for the public to absorb.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial past comments about vaccines were called out both by a protester and by a senator on the first day of his Health Secretary confirmation hearing. On Wednesday, January 29,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense scrutiny about previous statements at his first confirmation hearing for DHHS secretary.

Kennedy Jr. sought to backpedal from many of his past positions in his Senate confirmation hearing today to become HHS secretary, but he faced tough questions from Democrats and some Republicans who weren’t ready to forget.

The former U.S. ambasador — the last surviving child of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy — urged lawmakers to reject RFK Jr.’s nomination as health secretary.

Caroline Kennedy said in a scathing letter about her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that she felt "an obligation to speak out."