RFK Spews False Stats In Road Show With Mehmet Oz

Politico reports:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz took the Make America Healthy Again movement on the road Tuesday, reveling in their power to shape public health in an appearance riddled with false statements and dubious claims. Kennedy, the Health and Human Services secretary, spoke of the current “crisis” of chronic disease, autism and reminisced about his childhood years when rates of diseases such as diabetes were significantly lower.

Oz’s remarks occasionally felt like a version of his television show, as he extolled butter as “better than oils” and hailed moms as the most important figures in the “battle for health” because “she knows you will win the battle of health in the home, in the kitchen, the living room, the bedroom.”

Kennedy infused his remarks with statistics that were either incorrect or examples of him misspeaking. He said 70 percent of Americans are obese, but only about 40 percent of American adults are, according to the CDC; he said we are the fourth most obese country in the world, though we are the 18th, according to the World Health Organization, and said the nation had the highest rate of COVID deaths, though we ranked 18th, according to WHO and Johns Hopkins University.

Read the full article. There’s much more. Joining the duo was self-proclaimed Christian nationalist anti-vax nutbag Indiana Lt. Gov Micah Beckwith.

RFK Jr says “we’re in a crisis today” with issues like autism. “You can see the chronic inflammation” in kids today, he says. There’s an obesity crisis.

“It’s a choice,” he said. pic.twitter.com/GQvDwSMbBr

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