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As secretary of Health and Human Services in the second Trump administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed an array of pseudo-science and misinformation, foremost about vaccines. His approach has been to promote claims that are unsupported by evidence or have been disproven by scientific research, and to announce that HHS is pouring resources into studying those baseless claims. He also tends to imply that questions he raises have not yet been studied, when in fact they have been. Research has shown definitively, for example, that vaccines do not cause autism, despite Kennedys long-running efforts to stir that fear.
In similar fashion, Kennedy is now using his post as the highest-ranking US health official to spread the claim that psychiatric drugs are a key cause of mass shootings at the nations schools and beyond. The idea, essentially, is that antidepressants and other meds may inadvertently turn people into killers. There is no scientific evidence to support that theoryand extensive research indicates it is untrue. Nonetheless, Kennedy announced at a recent Turning Point USA event that massive studies of the theory are now underway at HHS. The HHS press secretary, however, declined to answer any of my specific questions about this purported research effort, and threat assessment and mental health leaders I spoke with voiced sharp skepticism.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/rfk-jr-mass-shootings-ssri-antidepressants/
Walleye
(43,449 posts)So what are you saying, Bobby if everybody quit taking pills there will be no more school shootings?
BOSSHOG
(44,297 posts)research indicates it is untrue.
My wife and I have had medicine in the house for more than 50 years, never a gun. Praise Jesus, how have we survived? Whats next, killing unarmed humans clinging to boats?
marble falls
(70,002 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(11,748 posts)BH liberal
(67 posts)a mockery of a human being. He is a caricature, and one of the most insane of the whole collection of crazies in the MAGA Mob. He has been and will continue to be overseeing a plague of needless deaths on his watch. Entirely preventable had the electorate not been foolish enough to let Trump get anywhere near public office, much less the presidency.
Initech
(107,048 posts)RFK Jr is the one who will do the most long-lasting, irreparable damage to the United States. Public health is something that should not be fucked with. But nope, the social media shitheads wanted to murder the one guy who was trying to help during COVID and still want him executed for god knows what reason. And then they appoint this batshit insane drug addicted lunatic with a worm in his brain who swims in raw sewage as some kind of weird anti-hero.
ornotna
(11,395 posts)Like Bob.
Wonder which ones he prefers, Orange barrel or purple micro dot?
chowder66
(11,667 posts)Initech
(107,048 posts)It's the fucking guns!
It's the fucking guns!
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Fuck you RFK Jr!