RFK Jr's "Wellness" Camps -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/02/15/rfk-jrs-wellness-camps/

Snake oil freak RFK Jr was confirmed this week and has laid out his first 100 days:

Hours after being confirmed as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued a statement that laid out sweeping plans for his first 100 days in office. Chief among his goals, he wrote, was to combat what he called a “growing health crisis” of chronic disease. The document called for the federal government to investigate the “root causes” of a broad range of conditions, including autism, ADHD, asthma, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis. Conspicuously absent was any explicit mention of childhood vaccines, which Kennedy has long railed against as the head of the anti-vaccine advocacy group Children’s Health Defense.

But the document did zero in on another one of his fixations: a class of widely prescribed drugs that treat depression, anxiety, and mood disorders. The government, he said, would “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, [and] mood stabilizers.”

He is not a doctor and knows absolutely nothing about any of this. He’s a conspiracy theorist and a crank who has said that most school shooters are on antidepressants which is a lie. (I wonder when someone’s going to ask Kennedy about his obvious steroid abuse? )

He may not have mentioned vaccines (he’ll get to that I’m sure) but the anti-depressant thing has long been one of his issues. But don’t worry, he has a plan: re-education camps:

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”

This is some serious woo-woo bullshit which proves that the conspiracy theory industry of both the left and right has now fully merged.

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[birdographer]

1. How thoroughly and utterly embarrassed his family must be by him

He could use three or four years in a wellness camp himself, preferably a 6’x6’ one with padded walls. Total nut job.

[Attilatheblond]

2. Aren't most, if not all, of those chronic conditions already being studied?

And maybe some have already been defunded by Unelected President Musk?

As for 'wellness farms' Oh, I am old enough to remember many 'health gurus' who were in it for the young women they could influence to do what the gurus wanted done.

[erronis]

3. Still happening, unfortunately. Entrapment of gullible young people.

But that could be said of the military, also.

[Takket]

4. probably goes without saying... but sending people off to "camps in the woods" run by RFK's minions

is a recipe for horrific abuse to happen to people with mental illnesses.

[LeftInTX]

8. It will be a "road kill" feast

[milestogo]

5. He's done some hard living.

I wouldn't think he's in the best of health himself.

[Skittles]

6. sounds like a commune to me

[enough]

7. What part of the federal government is going to fund this?

As long as they necessary, “ three or four years of they need it.”

If only.

[erronis]

9. We all know - they don't mean what they say - that's why they were hired.

Actually, in some of their cases, they are actually stupid enough to believe their words.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Another reason why it is sick that this idiot was confirmed by the GOP senate