This week, Children’s Health Defense backed a lawsuit against its founder, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alleging he “has failed” to comply with federal law by not creating a federal task force seeking the development of “safer” childhood vaccines.
In 2016, Kennedy became one of the co-founders of the World Mercury Project, which changed its name to CHD two years later. The organization’s founding mission was to end exposure to neurotoxic mercury in fish, medical products, dental amalgams, and vaccines. However, it later expanded its focus to target all toxic environmental insults negatively affecting the health of children, including vaccines, according to CHD’s website.
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In a stunning twist, CHD is now suing its founder, alleging in court that Kennedy violated the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which it says requires the HHS secretary to promote the development of safer childhood vaccines that cause “fewer and less serious adverse reactions” than existing ones. It appears that the lawsuit, though targeting Kennedy, has only been filed to give him “an excuse” to spearhead further scrutiny into vaccines.
“It may appear as though we’re being unfriendly to Mr. Kennedy,” said Ray Flores, the CHD senior outside counsel leading the lawsuit. “On the contrary, we’re helping him to have an excuse to do his job. And why does he need to do his job? You know, this is Children’s Health Defense. Those three words say it all. We don’t need to be apologetic for standing up for the rights of children, for the health of children.”
“Why is he not dealing with vaccines?” he continued. “This is not the Bobby we know. Is he being held captive in the swamp? … There is a mandate for healthy childhood vaccines, and Mr. Kennedy knows quite well that he has an obligation to improve the quality of vaccines for children and to establish a task force. We need to make sure that we hold him to his obligation. This is something that Congress created.”
CHD and Kennedy have for years spoken out against vaccine mandates and accused federal health agencies of approving vaccines, including for children, that have not undergone inert placebo-controlled or double-blind randomized clinical trials before authorization for public use.
They have also expressed concerns that some vaccines could be linked to autism and other disorders that have surged in recent decades.
Kennedy has continued to press for major vaccine reforms since he assumed leadership of the country’s most powerful health agency under the Trump administration. In June, he cleared out and replaced members sitting on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine safety advisory committee and cut all federal funding to Gavi, an international vaccine alliance, later that month.
He has also pledged federal investigations into what has caused the autism epidemic, launching a massive research investigation into the disorder in April.