{"id":140305,"date":"2025-04-28T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/john-oliver-drags-rfk-jr-over-hhs-cuts-autism-anti-vax-comments\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:27:08","slug":"john-oliver-drags-rfk-jr-over-hhs-cuts-autism-anti-vax-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/john-oliver-drags-rfk-jr-over-hhs-cuts-autism-anti-vax-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Drags RFK Jr. Over HHS Cuts, Autism &#038; Anti-Vax Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBack from Easter break, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/last-week-tonight\/\" id=\"auto-tag_last-week-tonight\" data-tag=\"last-week-tonight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last Week Tonight<\/a><\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-oliver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-oliver\" data-tag=\"john-oliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Oliver<\/a> spent the majority of his program going in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s reckless Department of Health &amp; Human Services cuts, anti-vaccine stance and \u201cdehumanizing\u201d feedback about autistic folks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis is a man who is clearly in way over his worm-riddled head,\u201d Oliver mentioned. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, he doesn\u2019t know who he\u2019s fired, he doesn\u2019t even know how many diabetic people there are in China. And if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, he\u2019s currently spreading dangerous nonsense and gutting life-saving research, all while bringing in a basement quack [David Geier]. RFK in this job is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpeaking to the haphazard cuts of HHS made by RFK \u2014 which have seemingly adopted DOGE\u2019s erratic and irrational downsizing, and which physicians, researchers and different consultants have warned will end in unnecessary deaths \u2014 Oliver quipped, \u201cThe rules for restructuring HHS should be the same as the ones for a bris. It is crucially important to know exactly what you are cutting. Speed is just not the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThroughout the night, Oliver additionally ridiculed RFK\u2019s \u201crabid\u201d conspiracy theories and unusual habits, referencing an article by The Daily Beast, which reported the division head went barefoot down an airplane aisle, together with its rest room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI know, I literally just said 9\/11 out loud [which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-wont-take-sides-911-conspiracy-theories-rcna160255\" target=\"_blank\">RFK won\u2019t \u201ctake sides\u201d on<\/a>], however RFK dragging his urine-soaked free-range piggies by means of first-class is actually the worst factor to ever occur in American airspace,\u201d Oliver joked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOliver additionally known as BS on a few of RFK\u2019s extensively cited statistics, together with one by which he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rfk-vaccines-autism-measles-obesity-food-dye-f26089856550e978d28fd25b653d8103#:~:text=KENNEDY%20on%20March%2028%20during,of%20the%20population%20is%20diabetic.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">falsely claimed that half of the inhabitants of China has diabetes<\/a>. The host remarked that it was extra embarrassing to fact-check this declare than earlier inquiries, similar to VP JD Vance\u2019s much-memed intercourse with a sofa debacle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOne response from a doctor called Kennedy\u2019s statement \u2018ludicrous,\u2019 adding \u2018these stats might be related to the worm in his brain,&#8217;\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOliver additionally delved into RFK\u2019s virulent anti-vaccine stance and disparaging feedback about folks with autism, shining mild on the spreading measles epidemic (which has led to the primary pediatric measles dying in 22 years), in addition to cases of toddler whooping cough deaths and uncertainty surrounding the hen flu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe comic likened the division\u2019s gutting to \u201cfinding out what each of your organs does as someone removes them one by one,\u201d ending emphatically that Kennedy \u201cneeds to go and by impeachment, if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Back from Easter break, Last Week Tonight\u2018s John Oliver spent the majority of his program going in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s reckless Department of Health &amp; Human Services cuts, anti-vaccine stance and \u201cdehumanizing\u201d feedback about autistic folks. \u201cThis is a man who is clearly in way over his worm-riddled head,\u201d Oliver mentioned. \u201cHe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9767,9587,1487,7061,2894,9766,575,1962,3123],"class_list":{"0":"post-140305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-antivax","9":"tag-autism","10":"tag-comments","11":"tag-cuts","12":"tag-drags","13":"tag-hhs","14":"tag-john","15":"tag-oliver","16":"tag-rfk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}