Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday to determine whether or not he is qualified to run the Department of Health and Human Services.
U.S. Senators blasted Kennedy as a dangerous conspiracy theorist and liar.
"You could literally walk down the street, and the first hundred people you'd find would be less dangerous at the head of HHS than Robert F Kennedy Jr.," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram before the hearing began.
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"For Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to say he's not anti-vaccine, he's just pro-science — It's kind of like a pyromaniac saying, well, I'm not an arsonist. I just set fires to buildings every day, right? Right. He will get people killed," warned Murphy.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) called Kennedy "one of the top spreaders of misinformation about vaccines, peddling bogus conspiracy theories that these safe and effective protections for Americans are somehow harmful."
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) told reporters that "RFK Jr. wants to conduct the Tuskegee experiments on all of us. He wants to observe the disease process population-wide. He believes that the FDA process for determining the efficacy of medicine does not reach statistical significance."
The Tuskegee experiments enrolled 600 Black men in a research project on observing the effects of syphilis. They were given placebos like aspirin despite a cure being discovered so that scientists could track the disease’s full progression. The men were never told there was a cure and continued to be lied to.