BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, JUL 06, 2023 – 10:50 AM
Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times,
For years, Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised serious questions about the safety of certain vaccine ingredients, an issue once the domain of small groups of parents that became a national issue with the onset of COVID-19.
During the pandemic, Mr. Kennedy also spoke out against the COVID-19 vaccines, personally and through supporting the Children’s Health Defense, where he served as chairman and chief legal counsel before stepping aside to focus on his campaign in April.
When Mr. Kennedy announced that he would campaign for the 2024 presidential elections, media coverage labeled him an “anti-vaxxer” and painted him as a heretic of conventional science.
When billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman began retweeting clips of Mr. Kennedy’s interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, it helped to propel Mr. Kennedy as the face of a legitimized vaccine-questioning movement. Ackman also offered to donate $150,000 if pediatrician Peter Hotez (who was critical of the interview) debated Kennedy about vaccines on Rogan’s show. Dr. Hotez declined.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dr. Peter Hotez in file photos. (Lisa Lake/Getty Images for SiriusXM; John Mone/AP Photo)
‘Vaccinate every American’
In 2021, Mr. Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital, criticized officials for not doing more to vaccinate the elderly against COVID-19 while suggesting fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could help fund logistics to “vaccinate every American. The time is now!”
It’s not an understatement to say Mr. Ackman’s statements are influential. During the onset of the pandemic, he sounded the alarm on the economy with an ominous line: “Hell is coming.”
The market dropped 6 percent, and the uproar he caused had him apologizing to investment executives soon thereafter, according to CBS News.
The billionaire himself had come out of the crisis with $2.6 billion in profits, according to Forbes Lists.
And now his views have changed.
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