Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist serving as the secretary of Health and Human Services, made some wild claims about the link between measles, diet and exercise in an interview last week.
The interview aired on Fox Nation, Fox News Channel’s paid subscription service, the same day President Donald Trump delivered his speech to a joint session of Congress. The conversation between Kennedy and Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel largely flew under the radar until The New York Times reported on it Monday.
“We see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who are ― who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a good exercise regimen,” Kennedy told Siegel at one point during the 35-minute sit-down.
