Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since 2025

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Born 1954 · age 72United States

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Updated 2026-08-15

Son and nephew of American political royalty, now the country's health secretary after two decades promoting vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories that public health experts say have fueled deadly outbreaks.

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Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. was born January 17, 1954, into the Kennedy political dynasty—his father a senator and attorney general, his uncle the president. He started as a Manhattan assistant DA, then turned to environmental law in the mid-1980s, joining Riverkeeper and NRDC, founding Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic in 1987, and launching Waterkeeper Alliance in 1999. By 2005 he had pivoted to promoting debunked claims linking vaccines to autism, HIV/AIDS denialism, and chemtrail theories, founding the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense and writing books attacking public heal…

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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[After the mercury poisoning (cited above)] I have cognitive problems, clearly [...] I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.
From a deposition (2012), as cited in "R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain", The New York Times (May 8, 2024)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The Russians have repeatedly offered to settle. If you look at the Minsk accords, which the Russians offered to settle for, they look like a really good deal today.
On the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on Unherd (May 3, 2023)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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What happened in the Ukraine is that the US supported essentially a coup d’etat in 2014, against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine.
Talking about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on Unherd (May 3, 2023)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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[On climate science] I can’t independently verify that.
2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Even in Hitler's Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.
At an anti-vaxxer rally (January 23, 2022), cited in "Robert Kennedy Jr apologizes for Holocaust remarks at anti-vaxxer rally" Reuters
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