For about twenty years, Robert F Kennedy Jr was the most famous vaccine sceptic in America. He ran an organisation, Children's Health Defense (CHD), built on one idea: that vaccines were dangerous and the health authorities were hiding it.

Then he became the man in charge of American health policy.

And now, in 2026, he is blaming the unvaccinated.

Where I stand

RFK has been on my podcast twice, both times before he joined the Trump administration. I respected his work back then. I see him differently now. He is a cog in the state machinery, turning with it.

Or maybe he was always turning with it.

I don't know.

1. I am not trying to make him look good or bad. I will grant him the benefit of the doubt and let the pattern speak.
2. I am largely a terrain guy. I don't really accept the contagion narrative, and I am not convinced measles is caused by a virus. Roman Bystrianyk's digging through official data is part of what got me there. So when I quote "cases" below, remember that cases are a germ theory metric. A rising count only means something if you accept the counting frame. Which I don't, for the most part.

"The characteristic microbe of a disease might be a symptom instead of a cause."

— George Bernard Shaw

Here's the timeline