RFK Jr’s weird voice

RFK Jr sounds weird. I don’t mean his ideas about vaccines and contagious disease. I mean that when he vocalizes, it sounds . . . creaky.

RFK Jr has a condition called “spasmodic dysphonia.” It’s known to have a genetic component. But this is RFK Jr, so of course he blames vaccines.

“In an interview with the outlet, Kennedy said he took annual flu shots until the mid-1990s, then stopped in 2005 "when I began looking at the side effects."

 

"I was preparing litigation against some of the flu shots several years ago and one of the entries that was listed on a lot of them was spasmodic dysphonia, which is an injury I have to my voice. That's why my voice is so screwed up," Kennedy said.

 

"That turns out to be a vaccine injury," he continued. "Do I know it was caused by the annual flu shot? I have no idea."

 

“When pressed by the interviewer, who asked if he suspected it was caused by the vaccine, he said it's "a possibility."

 

"It's a potential culprit that I cannot rule out, but I can't prove it," he said. "I'd like to know. We should have that data but we don't."

Actually, we do have data. Plenty of data.

“Greg Poland, MD, president of the Atria Academy of Science and Medicine in New York City who has studied vaccine side effects, said there's "no known linkage of cause and effect" between flu shots and spasmodic dysphonia, and no research has demonstrated anything to this effect.

 

"This is why as scientists we are suspicious of the idea that temporality is causality," Poland said. "If this were a real side effect of flu vaccines, we would have many, many reports after the billions of doses that have been given. Given that, how would you 'gather the data' he would like to gather?"


With RFK Jr, as with Donald Trump, the null hypothesis is that he’s lying. The burden of proof rests with those who claim he’s telling the truth.

"Any chance he gets, he tries to raise fears about vaccines," [Paul Offit, MD] said. "That's who he is. His job is to make vaccines more feared, less available, and less affordable."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/119516?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2026-01-21&mh=eb71348a5ff6ae370cc6759bc5dc3300&zdee=gAAAAABm4u1YoCP4y5SBTJUyUyqo9KxZhft26L1xeGdP0BzzQQN1Pb_ifR6vFqhFh-3U6Q_nU7DbA-EawzzXKxSRhMOwjrOGuOKbf7OE641eN0HfnK6eObE%3D&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202026-01-21&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition

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