Senator Cassidy (R-LA) and His Other Republican Colleagues Who Bought What RFK Jr. Was Selling Will Bear Responsibility For More Sick and Dead Americans.
As Texas faces a major Measles outbreak, Kennedy is downplaying the outbreak, describing it as “not unusual,” and continues to inject more unwarranted and dangerous skepticism about the safe and effective measles vaccine, which eliminated the disease from the United States in 2000. Even worse: RFK Jr. is terminating funding designed to increase vaccination rates and save lives. Despite Senator Bill Cassidy’s promise to hold RFK Jr. accountable, he has been silent.
SHOT: RFK Jr. Is Blaming The Texas Measles Outbreak On Diet and Health, Offering Quack Remedies Instead of Promoting Vaccination. “In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments. He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research. He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research. He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved ‘almost miraculous and instantaneous’ recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.” [The New York Times, 3/11/25]
CHASER: Senator Cassidy Does Nothing Despite Promising To Use Oversight Authority To Investigate RFK Jr. If He Attempted To Revoke Vaccine Access or “Wrongfully Sow Public Fear About Vaccines.” “‘If Mr. Kennedy is confirmed, I will use my authority as Chairman of the Senate Committee with oversight of HHS to rebuff any attempts to remove the public’s access to life-saving vaccines without ironclad, causational scientific evidence that can be defended before the mainstream scientific community and before Congress,’ Cassidy said. ‘I will carefully watch for any effort to wrongfully sow public fear about vaccines between confusing references of coincidence and anecdote.’” [Chief Health Care Executive, 2/11/25]