RFK Jr. Roasted Over His Bizarre Airport Observation: 'Remarkable Amount Of Stupidity'

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy declared that he knows “what a healthy child is supposed to look like” before revealing that he finds out just by looking at them.The 71-year-old remarked on how no one in his large family had diabetes, food allergies or autism when he grew up.“I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, I see these kids that are just overburdened by mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation,” said the conspiracy theorist and one of the nation’s biggest vaccine sceptics. “You can tell from their faces, from their body movements and from their lack of social connection.”Kennedy — after pushing false figures on Texas children with autism and underscoring that there are more children with diabetes and autism than when he was little — proceeded to declare that “we’re doing something to our children that is unprecedented in human history.”Kennedy shared similar remarks about seeing children with “mitochondrial challenges” at the airport back in April.Kennedy’s “anecdotal claims” have notably been dismissed by critics as “autism and food allergies were far less frequently diagnosed by medical professionals in decades past,” the San Antonio Current noted.RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection pic.twitter.com/svfdIqAntK— Acyn (@Acyn) August 27, 2025Critics roasted the unlicensed and uncredentialed Kennedy over his walk-by medical diagnosis method, with one X user giving him credit for “cramming a remarkable amount of stupidity into the fewest amount of words possible.”The non-doctor is diagnosing children from 30 meters distance with fake diseases and invented psychological conditions that have no basis in reality. He does get credit for cramming a remarkable amount of stupidity into the fewest amount of words possible. https://t.co/Bta9ipksaQ— John Jackson (@hissgoescobra) August 27, 2025You’re not a doctor. You didn’t even take a science course in college. Otherwise you’d probably understand that we don’t base our national public health policies on anecdotal observations made by lunatics about children at the airport. https://t.co/hMkfhOO1ul— Andrew—#IAmTheResistance—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) August 27, 2025Love to have a Washington DC politician judge my kids based on how they look in an airport. Great way to set policy. https://t.co/CfEViY7YVn— Evan (@evan7257) August 28, 2025[seeing people having a bad time at the airport] this is a sign of mitochondrial challenges among the youth of our country https://t.co/oykwheVyHT— John DiLillo (@JohnDiLillo) August 28, 2025Someone please send a few introductory biology textbooks to the Dept HHS, preferably ones with nice schematic pics of mitochondria and some text explaining how cell organelles function. High school level should be adequate https://t.co/xD3L15lIwM— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) (@PeterHotez) August 28, 2025what a surprise that the CDC experts are all resigning— read.pourteaux.xyz (@pourteaux) August 27, 2025Avoiding eye-contact with you is not ‘lack of social connection’, Bobby. https://t.co/wFzERW5jWw— Four Seasons Total Landscaping (@TotalSeasons) August 27, 2025There are more immediately brutal things the Trump admin is doing, but it’s still surreal to me, and will prove incredibly destructive, that this lunatic is in charge of HHS https://t.co/A3G8DkMxtd— Matthew Sitman (@MatthewSitman) August 28, 2025An American aristocrat walks amongst the people, "These kids disgust me!" https://t.co/qI3HUs4A0F— David Griscom (@DavidGriscom) August 28, 2025[seeing people having a bad time at the airport] this is a sign of mitochondrial challenges among the youth of our country https://t.co/oykwheVyHT— John DiLillo (@JohnDiLillo) August 28, 2025It will take decades to recover from the brain worm-filled men who are destroying health and science infrastructure in our country. https://t.co/lQeNWpiBuj— Carter Christensen (@CarterChristens) August 27, 2025

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