Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., caused a firestorm earlier this year. The CDC announced that it was no longer recommending the dangerous and ineffective COVID shots to pregnant women and children. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) went ballistic. The organization sued Kennedy personally, claiming that he was “assaulting science.” Oral arguments in that lawsuit got underway in Boston last week. That same day, Kennedy canceled millions of dollars in grant funding for the AAP, which has some questioning the timing.
The Washington Post was quick to report that the thin-skinned RFK was retaliating against the AAP for “criticizing” him. An HHS spokesperson responded that the grants to AAP were canceled because they “no longer align with the Department’s mission or priorities.”
As an example, one of the seven grants that Kennedy canceled was for the study of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). There’s really not much else that the scientific community can learn about FAS. Kennedy didn’t see much sense in spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money on a condition that is 100% preventable when women don’t get drunk during pregnancy.
The AAP isn’t placing any emphasis on chronic disease or nutrition, which are now the highest priorities for HHS under Kennedy. Fifty percent of American children now have some type of chronic disease. That’s a much bigger problem than the 1 out of every 1,000 Alaska Native women who give birth to a baby with FAS.
You might think that, based on its name, the American Academy of Pediatrics is interested in children’s health. But that’s not what the organization has been about for years. Maybe it was back in the days of yore, but in 2025, the AAP is just another ideologically captured institution that sounds like it’s working on Kamala Harris’s 2028 reelection campaign.
When Kennedy announced the new recommendations for pregnant women and kids this past summer, the AAP wasn’t just upset over the COVID shots. They were upset that the Health and Human Services Secretary had referred to “pregnant women” and not “pregnant people.” An organization that’s supposed to be concerned with science and children’s health actually believes that biological men can get pregnant.
So, they sued RFK for his “assault on science.”
The AAP is not a public health institute. It is a front for the pharmaceutical industry and for woke Democrat Party politics.
The AAP fiercely supports the CDC’s insane 72-shot childhood vaccine schedule, despite overwhelming evidence that vaccines cause autism, food allergies, SIDS deaths, and many additional problems.
When it comes to the obesity crisis among American teens, you’d think that the American Academy of Pediatrics would recommend exercise and better nutrition. Overweight kids should start walking for 20 minutes a day and eat some salads. Surely, that is the recommendation that AAP’s preeminent scientists and doctors make, right?
Nope!
The AAP recommends Ozempic injections for overweight teens. The FDA hasn’t even approved this faddish—and possibly very dangerous—chemical concoction for kids over 12. But the AAP encourages doctors to prescribe Ozempic injections off-label to overweight American teens.
If a child becomes confused about their gender, the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend things that might actually help them. The AAP won’t suggest counseling or pulling the child out of public school, for example (which is the main driver of transgenderism among youth).
Instead, the AAP recommends “gender affirming care” for confused children, otherwise known as surgical and chemical castration. This is the organization that purports to be defending science against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
If any doctor dares to question the holy US vaccine schedule, the AAP viciously censors and squelches their voices. If a pediatrician even asks questions about vaccines, the AAP will publicly defame them as “anti-science” and warn parents not to bring their children to that doctor.
Does that sound like an entity that is truly concerned with the health of children?
The AAP is now considering an additional lawsuit against Kennedy because he canceled this latest handful of grants. That wasn’t personal on Kennedy’s part. As you may have noticed after his decades of fighting the entrenched Big Pharma companies, he has fairly thick skin.
The AAP canceled these grants through its own actions.
