RFK Makes Good On Promise: Lawsuit Filed Against AAP
BY JEFF SKINNER
STATEWIDE - Yesterday, January 21, Children’s Health Defense, the organization founded by Robert F Kennedy jr, along with several other plaintiffs, filed a RICO lawsuit against American Academy of Pediatrics for what they say was a decades long criminal racketeering scheme to defraud American families and, that ultimately damaged children’s health.
According to the lawsuit filed, the American Academy of Pediatrics violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by providing false and fraudulent information about the safety and efficacy of immunizations on the CDC childhood immunization schedule. The suit mentions that the organization additionally received financial incentives from vaccine manufacturers to increase vaccination rates at pediatric practices.
The complaint also alleges that the AAP has worked to suppress research studies which significantly questioned the safety and efficacy of many childhood immunizations.
The AAP currently has around 67,000 members making it one of the largest pediatric trade groups in the nation.
The plaintiffs in the case are demanding financial compensation for the plaintiffs and are asking federal courts to prohibit the AAP from making any additional unqualified safety claims about vaccines as well as ordering the AAP to disclose the lack of comprehensive safety testing for vaccines on the schedule.
In the lawsuit, a 2002 article by pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit, published in the journal Pediatrics claimed that infants can receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once without posing a health risk. The AAP used this article to block studies that questioned the safety and efficacy of vaccinations and to convince doctors and parents vaccinations had been tested and were safe. In reality, no single vaccination on the childhood registry has been tested for safety against a placebo. The plaintiffs argue the ‘article’ became near scripture for pediatricians who were instructed to parrot the ‘10,000’ vaccines line to parents concerned about coadministration of injections or safety of injections in general.
The lawsuit plaintiffs include physicians Paul Thomas and Kenneth Stoller, who were sanctioned by their regulatory agencies for opposing AAP’s guidelines, as well as parents of children harmed by the vaccinations.
Many are looking at the move as Robert F. Kennedy making good on his promise to hold the medical system accountable for the decades long damage it has caused to children and families by manipulating or forcing families to take unproven and unsafe injections for children. After the election victory in 2024, Robert F. Kennedy took to Twitter to inform the regulatory and pharmaceutical companies to both ‘preserve their records’ and ‘pack their bags’.
