"RFK Jr. is correct about Lyme disease being created as a bioweapon in a lab on Plum Island, just off Connecticut's coast," says a January 29, 2025 X post from an account called "Shadow of Ezra ...

But experts say evidence shows the disease has existed for tens of thousands of years and there is nothing to suggest it was artificially created by humans, as is being suggested online. "RFK Jr. is ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of America's most notorious vaccine skeptics, will run the country's leading health agency.

Colo.) asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to clarify whether he had said previously that Lyme disease was a bioweapon. “I did probably say that,” RFK Jr. responded. The idea that Lyme disease ...

Kennedy Jr. became the country's top health official, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already pulled back ...

The hearings also called attention to a passel of health-related conspiracy theories that RFK Jr. has floated in the past, including that Lyme disease was developed as a bioweapon, that COVID is ...

Her letter, which she released ahead of RFK Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing ... Kim said his father was disabled by polio and his mother has Lyme disease, railing against Kennedy’s claims ...

Kathie Fife is a lyme and tick-borne disease ecologist ... the conduct of two New England senators during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

RFK Jr. also backed off or downplayed other outlandish statements about Lyme disease being a military-engineered “bioweapon,” COVID-19 being “ethnically targeted” against black and ...