Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his experience as an environmental attorney in an attempt to boost his credibility during a Senate Finance Committee hearing to confirm him as the nation’s top health official.
“I am not anti-vaccine. I am pro-safety,” Kennedy said in his opening statement, over protesters who interrupted shouting, “You lie!”
“I worked for years to reduce mercury and toxic chemicals in fish, and nobody called me anti-fish,” he said.
Kennedy, who spent the previous Trump administration opposing regulatory rollbacks from EPA, is famous for falsely linking immunizations to autism and cancer.