{"id":1965242,"date":"2023-07-06T01:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wall-street-investor-bill-ackman-says-rfk-jr-is-asking-important-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T01:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:57:46","slug":"wall-street-investor-bill-ackman-says-rfk-jr-is-asking-important-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wall-street-investor-bill-ackman-says-rfk-jr-is-asking-important-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street investor Bill Ackman supports RFK Jr.&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine inquiries."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwall-street-investor-bill-ackman-says-rfk-jr-is-asking-important-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0706\/4a17bac8-7176-481d-8f86-e71ddb5dcc42\/audio.mp3?length=4530285&#038;duration=377\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>For years, Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised serious questions about the safety of certain vaccine ingredients, an issue once the domain of small groups of parents that became a national issue with the onset of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, Mr. Kennedy also spoke out against the COVID-19 vaccines, personally and through supporting the Children\u2019s Health Defense, where he served as chairman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-different-kind-of-gun-grabbing\/\" title=\"A Different Kind of Gun-Grabbing\">chief legal counsel<\/a> before stepping aside to focus on his campaign in April.<\/p>\n<p>When Mr. Kennedy announced that he would campaign for the 2024 presidential elections, media coverage labeled him an \u201canti-vaxxer\u201d and painted him as a heretic of conventional science.<\/p>\n<p>When billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman began retweeting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillAckman\/status\/1669917733448810497\">clips<\/a> of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillAckman\/status\/1669914275630940164\">interview<\/a> with podcaster Joe Rogan, it helped to propel Mr. Kennedy as the face of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wall-street-investor-bill-ackman-says-rfk-jr-is-asking-important-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines\/\" title=\"Wall Street investor Bill Ackman supports RFK Jr.'s COVID-19 vaccine inquiries.\">legitimized vaccine-questioning movement<\/a>. Ackman also offered to donate $150,000 if pediatrician Peter Hotez (who was critical of the interview) debated Kennedy about vaccines on Rogan\u2019s show. Dr. Hotez declined.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5342136\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/19\/id5342136-FotoJet-1-1200x722.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Vaccinate every American\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>In 2021, Mr. Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital, criticized officials for not <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillAckman\/status\/1346505161687117827\">doing more<\/a> to vaccinate the elderly against COVID-19 while suggesting fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could help fund logistics to \u201cvaccinate every American. The time is now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not an understatement to say Mr. Ackman\u2019s statements are influential. During the onset of the pandemic, he sounded the alarm on the economy with an ominous line: \u201cHell is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The market dropped 6 percent, and the uproar he caused had him apologizing to investment executives soon thereafter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-ackman-billionaire-made-2-6-billion-coronavirus-meltdown\/\">according<\/a> to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire himself had come out of the crisis with $2.6 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/william-ackman\/?sh=6e5fdbe2298d\">profits<\/a>, according to Forbes Lists.<\/p>\n<p>And now his views have changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience is an unending search for the truth, and this ongoing search is critical, as what was once deemed to be settled science is often revised or reversed with the passage of time,\u201d Mr. Ackman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillAckman\/status\/1672075390968377344?s=20\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter in a lengthy explanation accompanied by a video of Tucker Carlson promoting Mr. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, consider how the science of human nutrition has changed dramatically over time, or hypotheses about the causes for Alzheimer\u2019s. And it wasn\u2019t that long ago that doctors were quoted in ads recommending cigarettes as good for your health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@RobertKennedyJr and others have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-bachelor-star-responds-to-shows-racism-allegations\/\" title=\"\u2018The Bachelor\u2019 Star Responds To Show\u2019s Racism Allegations\">raised important questions<\/a> about the safety of some vaccines and have sought explanations for the dramatic increases in the incidence of childhood allergies, autism, and other health issues. These are good questions that have not been adequately answered. And I say this from the perspective of someone who is fully vaccinated along with my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_242965\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2013\/08\/343a17a42ace5b1b3a0f6a7067006089-1200x772.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Ackman preceded the explanation with a seemingly obligatory \u201cfor context, I am pro-science,\u201d and encouraged others to seek the answers Mr. Kennedy has demanded for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis concerns are ones shared by millions of parents and others. Rather than censor RFK and the skeptics, shouldn\u2019t we instead seek to understand the causes for the massive increase in autism and allergic diseases in our children over the last 30 or so years? If vaccines are not the cause for increased autism and other allergenic conditions, then what is the cause or causes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out, too, that while he disagreed with Mr. Carlson on many issues, the episode on Mr. Kennedy\u2019s work was one he recommended. \u201cWhen even your worst enemy has an insight you agree with, I have often found it has a higher probability of being true. I think you will find this approach will make it easier to get closer to the truth in an uncertain world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was one of many clips on Mr. Kennedy\u2019s work that he circulated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5207044\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/19\/id5207044-04192023-DSC05990-Kennedy2024-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>In a recent interview on CNBC, Mr. Ackman explained why Mr. Kennedy had convinced him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to RFK on several podcasts and a town hall and thought he raised important issues about vaccines and other issues that were worth learning more about,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/05\/bill-ackman-rfk-jr-covid-vaccines.html\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve fully answered questions about the safety of all vaccines, particularly more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocker-influential-billionaire-dem-donor-suddenly-supports-rfk-jr-s-vaccine-skepticism\/\" title=\"Surprising: Billionaire Donor Now Backs RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Doubts\">recently approved vaccines<\/a>, and our approach to dete<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democratic presidential candidate, has raised concerns about vaccine ingredients. Initially a topic for a few parents, it gained national attention due to COVID-19. 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