WASHINGTON, D.C.:– During a discussion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Senator Ron Johnson to detail what they describe as systemic corruption within federal health agencies and a deliberate suppression of scientific data, particularly concerning vaccine safety and the influence of pharmaceutical and food industries.
Senator Johnson initiated the conversation by highlighting concerns over the “capture of agencies” and “corruption of science” by powerful interests. He emphasized that a primary goal is to “bring integrity and credibility back to science, which has been corrupted by the people who pay for it, by federal health agencies being, being captured by pharmaceutical industries, by big pharma, by big food.”
RFK Jr., in turn, provided a specific example to illustrate these allegations, focusing on a 2002 internal study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “In 2002, CDC did an internal study of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, children and looked at children who got the MMR vaccine on time and compared those to kids who got them later,” RFK Jr. stated.
According to RFK Jr., the study’s data revealed a significant finding: “The data from that study showed that Black boys who got the vaccine on time had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited.”
RFK Jr. further alleged that this critical information was suppressed. “The chief scientist on that, Dr. William Thompson, the senior set, vaccine safety scientist at CDC, was ordered to come into a room with four other co-authors by his boss, Frank DeStefano, who is the head of the Immunization Safety Branch, in order to destroy that data, and then they published it without that fact.”
RFK Jr. concluded by asserting that this alleged incident is not isolated but indicative of a broader pattern of deception. “So you know that story, I know that story, and you know of hundreds of stories like that. It happens all the time. We are being lied to by these agencies, and we’re gonna change that right now.”
Both Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Senator Johnson underscored their commitment to exposing these alleged practices and restoring trust and transparency to vital public health institutions.
About Robert F. Kennedy Jr:Â Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since February 2025.
About Senator Ron Johnson: Ronald Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011. A Republican, Johnson was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold.