Defend Public Health's Amicus Brief for American Academy of Pediatrics vs. RFK Jr.

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Over the strenuous objections of public health experts, including Defend Public Health, in February 2025 the U.S. Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Since then, he's lied to the public regularly, so Dr. Benedicte Callan and her team from Defend Public Health decided to debunk those falsehoods and launched the Whopper of the Week, which provides factual counterpoints to disinformation from Kennedy.

Here, you can read our report on the lessons learned from one year of Whoppers of the Week.

Defend Public Health has filed a new Amicus brief in support of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups in litigation in their lawsuit against HHS Secretary Kennedy's effective destruction of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices