Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stunned FDA staff Friday with a 40-minute tirade featuring a disability slur, the “deep state” conspiracy theory, and accusations that agency employees were becoming a “sock puppet” for the industries it regulates, according to Politico.
During his bonkers rant to employees at the Food and Drug Administration, Kennedy, an anti-vaccine crusader and Trump appointee, dropped the slur “r----ded” when referring to Wassaic State School, a former institution for people with developmental disabilities that once included the word in its name.
He reportedly repeated the name of the school’s former name—including the slur—while discussing rising autism diagnoses.
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