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I believe you are referring to comments made about the hepatitis B vaccine, not HPV.

• perihelions 1y ago
  That's right; that particular HHS Secretary comment was about Hepatitis B. > "“Hepatitis B vaccine was made for prostitutes and for promiscuous gay men,” Kennedy said in an interview on his Children’s Health Defense show in 2022." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/25/rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-acip-meeting/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/25/rfk-jr-vacc... The WaPo article doesn't bother to refute RFK's lies, but here's /r/medicine responding to them (in the context that's topical this week—RFK ordering the removal of the Hepatitis B vaccine from the children's schedule): > "Let's be even more clear about this. If you contract Hep B in the first year of life, more than 90% develop the chronic form, and the need for liver transplant is much higher.... Worldwide, the second most common route for children under 5 to catch HBV is from other children, and that's not by doing IV drugs or having sex. (First most common is vertical, through mother.)" https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1niml9d/kennedys_vaccine_panel_expected_to_recommend/ https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1niml9d/kennedys_...