RFK JR.—THE NEXT ONE OUTTA HERE! PART 2

TRUMP’S CABINET RIGHTLY DESERVES the resignations and firings it has been experiencing. Yesterday’s Part 1 began the theme of Next One Outta Here! Evidence confirming this continues here in Part 2.

RFK Jr. An Anti-Vaxer. Sheryl Gay Stollberg reports in The New York Times, April 22, 2026, “Over four days and nearly 20 hours of testimony, under harsh questioning from Democrats, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly backed away from his longstanding criticism of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. On Wednesday, he made his strongest statement yet—albeit on behalf of his department and not himself.”

RFK Jr. at the Capitol. (Is he turning his back on the Congress or on his own department?) Image by Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times.

Stollberg also recounts, “When measles broke out in Texas last year, Mr. Kennedy did not recommend vaccination; he said it should be ‘a personal choice.’ Last year, asked if he would advise parents to vaccinate newborns, he said it was not up to him to provide medical advice. His advice, he said, was: ‘Do your own research.’ ”

This, from the Secretary of Health and Human Services???

Your Own Research? However don’t expect guidance from Health and Human Services. As an example, Brenda Goodman reports, “HHS Rejects Publication of Study Showing Covid-19 Vaccines Prevent Hospitalizations, ER Visits,” CNN, April 22, 2026. Goodman recounts, “Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

Goodman continues, “The authors of the study received an official rejection letter from the journal on Tuesday, one source said, even though the study had cleared internal reviews and had been scheduled for publication.”

Goodman quotes Dr. Fiona Havers, who resigned as senior vaccine policy adviser at the CDC in June over changes to the agency’s vaccine policy made by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The rejection of the new study is pretty problematic in general, because it’s a very standard, well-established study design that has been used for a long time.”

So much for RFK Jr.’s professed “Gold Standard” Science. (No doubt related to Trump’s “Golden Age” noted here in Part 1.) By the way, the “Gold Standard” reference notes “the nation’s top public health agency changed its website to contradict the scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism. The move shocked health experts nationwide.”

A Gold-Standard Arithmetic As Well? Gabe Whisnant and Dan Gooding report, “RFK Jr. Says Trump Has ‘Different Way’ of Calculating Percentages,” Newsweek, April 22, 2026: They recount, “Kennedy, who appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday morning, said ‘President Trump has a different way of calculating, there’s two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600 percent reduction.’ He acknowledged that Trump’s math departs from standard calculations.” 

Whisnant and Gooding cite, “A fact check by The Associated Press (AP) in August 2025 found that to be false, saying that if drug prices had been reduced by more than 100 percent, patients would be getting paid to take the medications.”

They also quote, “Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts pushed back on that framing, noting that under conventional arithmetic the price drop Kennedy described would amount to a reduction of about 98 percent.”

Yes, precisely 98.333…. and I suspect that Golden-Age arithmetic is akin to alternative facts.

Image by AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. 

Full Disclosure: Do not hire this man to teach arithmetic to your kids. Nor to handle matters of vaccines, nor of Medicaid, nor of transgender care. Come to think of it, nor of anything to do with health and human services.

This added once posted: I am pleased to see the Editorial Board of The New York Times shares my distress. ds

© Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2026