RFK Jr. BLASTED For Defending Report That Used Fake Sources

Health and Human Services director Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. faced a House hearing this week where he clumsily attempted to defend his recent “Make America Healthy Again” report that cited numerous fake sources and was clearly written using AI. Kennedy was forced to admit that he did NOT fact check the report, but then went on to claim that the assertions in the report were accurate – in spite of a lack of citations to support them! Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Health and Human Services. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Had to appear in front of a house committee this week where he was grilled by Democratic representative, uh, RA Ruiz from California. As Representative Ruiz decided, or Ruiz, excuse me, decided to absolutely obliterate RFK Jr. Who repeatedly stood by the fact that his recent Make America Healthy again, report cited non-existent sources, and of course was clearly written by, by ai, which was evident through the, uh, citation tags that were visible in the document. That, of course, didn't exist. Here is how that conversation transpired. Representative Ruiz says, secretary Kennedy, you're listed as the chair of the commission. Did you read the report and fact check its sources prior to publication? Alright, so right off the bat, that is a simple yes or no question. Did you read the report? Did you fact check, check the citations? So you would think Kennedy would respond with a yes or no, right?

That's what a normal person without a brain worm would do. But Kennedy instead tries to say all of the facts of this, and Ruiz immediately stops and he goes, did you read the report? And did you, you yourself fact check them? Sir Kennedy says, I did not fact check them. So Ruiz says, you did not fact check why. Then, as has, and Kennedy interrupts, and he goes, all of the foundational assertion Ruiz interrupts and says, excuse me, sir, I'm speaking, why then did the report include a citation to sources that don't even exist? How does that happen under your leadership, sir? And instead of answering that, Kennedy says, all of the foundational assertions of that report are accurate, some of them. And Ruiz says they did not exist. How can they be accurate if they did not exist, sir? And Kennedy tries to say some of the citations and Ruiz just stops.

And he goes, you know, in fact, my understanding is that even once the report was updated, more authors and researchers came forward stating that their research was misconstrued. This is quite unbelievable, sir. Which of course is par for the course with Kennedy on the issue of health and medicine. This is what he has done since he went down that path. He takes reports and in this particular case, reports that don't even exist to justify his beliefs, but he'll take a report, he'll cherry pick information, somehow mix up the information and then twist it and construe it to make it seem like the information he has cherry picked

And edited somehow backs up what he says. I've actually done multiple videos where I explain exactly what he is referring to from the real study and then tell you what the real study said and how he ended up flipping it on its head. But this is what he does. I've known this for a long time. Most of us have, you know, unfortunately I had a front row seat because he was, you know, a host of Ring of Fire to watch him go down this path, a path that obviously nobody else at Ring of Fire followed.