Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., criticized Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) for accusing him of spreading conspiracy theories about vaccines. Shapiro’s comments came as the governor announced on Tuesday that two people in Pennsylvania died from measles. Both were unvaccinated, Shapiro said. He accused Kennedy and the Trump administration of “scaring people” into not believing doctors and medical information about vaccines. Kennedy objected to the criticism and said that Shapiro was gaslighting the public. Kennedy posted on X the details of the phone conversation he said he had with Shapiro.“During our phone conversation, Governor Shapiro also accused me of promoting vaccine misinformation,” said Kennedy in the post. “When I asked him for an example, he was unable to provide one, but this did not deter him from publicly repeating that accusation during his press event. As I told him, HHS does not tolerate misinformation by any employee. I offered to point to hundreds of instances of vaccine misinformation by the Biden administration about which I had never heard him complain.”
At his press conference today, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro accused me of promoting conspiracy theories because I told him, during an earlier telephone conversation, that some Americans had religious objections to the MMR vaccine because it contained fetal tissue. “There is…— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 26, 2026
