Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, makes changes to the public health system, ranging from lies on children’s vaccines to reliable vaccines by replacing people who are known to emit misinformation.
Groups such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have spoken out against these changes, and some major medical associations even turn to Kennedy in response to Covidid-19 vaccines.
Kennedy’s attack on vaccine is not exactly a surprise-it has a story of anti-accin notes, which was the main point of speaking through his Senate’s approval hearing earlier this year. Specifically, his beliefs were front and centers during the hot exchange, when Senator Angela Alsobroooks (D-MD.) Submitted a comment that once provided Kennedy about vaccinations and the black community.
2021 Kennedy said, “We should not give blacks of the same vaccine graph, which is given to proteins because their immune system is better than us.”
Alsobrooks asked Kennedy to explain what he meant that note, and he continued to state the “series of studies” saying research shows that “blacks need less antigens.” (Entries experts say it’s not true.)
“Currently, vaccination schedules are based on things like your age, the risk of your exposure if you have other chronic major health problems-but race is not one of them, and there are no studies that show that it should be,” said Joel Bervelis
What was particularly worried about Kennedy exchange with Alsobroooks was that he doubled his comment from 2021.
Kennedy could use it as an opportunity to admit that he needed more research and understand the vaccine schedule, “But instead he defended what he said, what I think, for me, is where the problem lies,” said Bervell Huffpost. “It is not necessarily the fact of misinformation there, but the fact that he did not want to face it at least or to admit that he was on stage.”
Below as experts such as Bervell, they share their concerns about Kennedy’s statement and how it reflects a greater problem image:
Kennedy comment can be considered “scientific racism,” experts say.
“In medicine, in science, we know that race is a social construct, meaning that you can’t look at someone’s genes and determine what race they are,” Bervell said.
This means that the differences in vaccine time simply have no scientific meaning.
“The comment [Kennedy] About the vaccine schedule, it is basically scientific racism that has been abolished, ”said Dr. Oni Oni Blacksstock, founder and executive director of the Huffpost Health Justice.
“It really immortalize this misconception that black people somehow are biologically different from the white people and thus justify differential and ultimately unequal behavior with black people compared to white people,” Blackstock added.
“By saying this, he has taken one of the major stages of health care that this provision that the race-based medicine should still exist when many scientists have recently tried to find out,” Bervell said.
Race and scientific racism led to the treatment of black patients, pain relief and even death, Blackstock stressed.
Both experts pointed out examples of real life, such as the false belief that blacks have better functioning kidneys than whites. According to Bervelis, black people found it harder to get the treatment they needed, such as kidney transplants. And this model of thought is not from a certain long distance – the medical equation that strengthened this bias was not changed until 2021, Bervel said.
In addition, in 1793 In the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, blacks were thought to be resistant to yellow fever, which was not true and led to high black mortality, Blackstock explained.
“It is important to understand the problem of myths that they literally can cause regulations that are recorded in medicine, which treats populations differently on the basis,” Bervell said. “It can actually change the care people get.”
While it is easy to look at a certain approach as a one -time approach, medical racism has real consequences that irresponsible comments may deteriorate. By promoting his debut beliefs, you “distract us from actually doing the work we need to do, which is a systematic discharge of racism in health care and ensuring that everyone has correct access to preventive care and the necessary treatments,” Blackstock added.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, a junior comment on vaccines in the black community is worried about medical experts. Anna MoneyMaker via Getty Images
Such a position in the health care system may be more distrustful.
“One thing that is also strange [Kennedy] Whether he is the one who said he did not support vaccines for a long time, Bervel said. – Apparently he changed his mind now, but he said for a long time he didn’t support vaccines, and then he also says that blacks should get a different vaccine schedule. So you have to wonder what your goal is that if you don’t even believe in vaccines? ‘
Bervel said comments such as Kennedy can sow a vaccine in the black population, which is dangerous and can eliminate confidence in evidence reasonably reasonably in medicine.
This is not the first time that happened, the Blackstock added. 2021 Kennedy made a documentary “Medical Racism: New Apartheid”, which, according to Blackstock, promoted misinformation of health and vaccines for the black community, along with other separated groups.
“I wonder how some of his efforts were focused on the use [and] Using a mistrust that some in the black community have vaccines and a health care system due to structural racism and medical racism, ”said Blackstock.
Due to misinformation and intimidation tactics rampant in social media, misinformation from government leaders will only make it difficult to say what is real and what is fake in medicine. Bervell said health care must be the most important health care.
“Trust is already eradicated in the field of healthcare,” Bervel explained. “We have to have someone who is going to work with scientists, researchers, doctors who see these problems on the ground every day, not the one in the ivory tower, watching from above, without realizing what is really on the ground.”
Experts say this rhetoric corresponds to Donald Trump’s reports.
Blackstock emphasized that while such false beliefs are very problematic, they observe most of the reports of Donald Trump and his presidential administration.
“It repeats some rhetoric [Trump] shared around eugenics and immigrants, said Blacksstock. – He talked about immigrants with “bad genes” or “poisoning in our country’s blood”. It only speaks of this idea of racial purity or genetic purity and this false idea that certain groups of people are essentially inferior or prone to some behavior for their genetics. ‘
Again, the race is a social construction and does not match genetic differences. “It is really shocking that in 2025 we are still dealing with these beliefs that have been propagated for several centuries that have been used to justify slavery, used to justify unequal treatment, to justify forced sterilization,” Blackstock said.
Blackstock added that, in her opinion, individuals withdraw from such rhetoric because people get used to foreign comments and bad behavior.
“But we have to actually note it and say that it is really dangerous and really related to the rhetoric that can have a real health effect,” Blackstock said.
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