Why RFK Jr’s Wearables Push Is Raising Alarm Among Health Freedom and Privacy Advocates

HHS Announces Goal of ‘Every American’ Using Wearables

In a recent budget hearing, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, “We’re about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables.”

Kennedy described wearables as “a key to the MAHA agenda” and said, “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.”

As noted by Robert McGreevy in a Daily Caller article for which I was asked to provide comments, titled “Idea Proposed By RFK Has Some In MAHA Scratching Their Heads,” Kennedy’s remarks have “rankled medical freedom and privacy advocates”.

Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official under the George H.W. Bush administration, told the Daily Caller, “If RFK is promoting this it is because those are his political orders. He knows better.”

Indeed, Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which Kennedy helped found and presided over until stepping down to take on the job of HHS Secretary, denounced the stated plan to use taxpayers’ money to promote electronic devices emitting electromagnetic frequency (EMF) radiation with the aim of “every American” using them.

There are also privacy concerns about biometric data harvesting.

Additionally, some are concerned about conflicts of interest affecting policy decisions within the leadership of the “Make America Healthy Again” or “MAHA” movement, a political campaign that was launched when Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race to join forces with Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” or “MAGA” movement.

After Catherine Austin Fitts, the Daily Caller article quotes me as follows:

“I share the concerns of many that the health freedom movement was effectively hijacked and is now being misdirected,” Jeremy R. Hammond, an independent journalist and fellow at The Libertarian Institute, told the Caller.

“I can understand certain individuals wishing to use wearables, but the idea that every American should be is lunacy and completely counter to the goals of the grassroots health freedom movement, which is not to be confused with ‘MAHA,'” Hammond said.

To put my comments into context, it is important to understand how the MAHA campaign arose and to otherwise expound on the details of this “wearables” controversy to put it into greater perspective.

The Health Freedom Movement’s Vaccine Focus

Many members of the grassroots health freedom movement voted for Donald Trump with the hope of getting RFK, Jr. into a position to help stop the systematic violation of the right to informed consent resulting from public vaccine policies.

While members of the movement share concerns about a wide variety of environmental assaults on children’s health, as reflected by CHD’s mission of “ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure,” the primary focus has been the long-term effects of vaccines on overall health—an area that is poorly studied.

As stated by Dr. Peter Aaby, a top researcher into what are called “non-specific effects” of vaccines, “I guess most of you think that we know what all our vaccines are doing. We don’t.”

An example of a detrimental non-specific effect is the diphtheria, tetanus, and whole cell pertussis (DTP) vaccine’s association with an increased rate of childhood mortality. As Aaby and coauthors observed in a 2017 study in the Lancet journal eBioMedicine,

It should be of concern that the effect of routine vaccinations on all-cause mortality was not tested in randomized trials. All currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis. Though a vaccine protects children against the target disease it may simultaneously increase susceptibility to unrelated infections.

Members of the health freedom movement, often dismissed with the derogatory label “anti-vaxxers” for advocating the right to informed consent, have long expressed concerns that the aggressive vaccination schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is contributing to the alarming rates of chronic diseases and disorders—including neurodevelopmental disorders—in the US childhood population.

Indeed, as I detailed in my book The War on Informed Consent, which features a Foreword by RFK, Jr., while the CDC refuses to do the type of vaccinated versus unvaccinated study that parents have long been demanding, data from independent researchers strongly indicate that completely unvaccinated children are healthier.

A positive outcome of the medical tyranny endured under the lockdown madness and its coerced mass vaccination endgame was a greater awakening of the public to the complete untrustworthiness of so-called “public health” officials.

The COVID‑19 vaccines, recall, were sold to the public based on lies about their safety and effectiveness. Among other major concerns is the finding of DNA contamination in the mRNA shots, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), responsible for the emergency use authorizations and full approvals under which the products are distributed, has completely ignored.

Within the movement in the runup to the 2024 presidential election, there was a virtual consensus that most urgent priority was to ensure the removal of COVID‑19 vaccines from the CDC’s childhood schedule and removal of the CDC’s recommendation for pregnant women to get the shot.

Many are now under the impression that this key goal has been achieved. As I elucidate below, it hasn’t—and the disinformation to the contrary is a cause for heightened concern about the direction that “MAHA” is taking the movement.

While long considered a respected leader in the fight against medical tyranny, Kennedy’s focus on the vaccine issue shifted immediately upon quitting his own presidential run to join forces with Trump and launch the MAHA campaign.

During a speech announcing the suspension of his own campaign on August 23, 2024, Kennedy focused on the role of food and mitochondrial dysfunction while saying nothing about vaccines.

Puzzlingly to long-time health freedom advocates who’d never heard of the him, Kennedy singled out for praise a man named Calley Means, calling him “arguably the leading advocate” for “ending the chronic disease epidemic”. Kennedy himself later confessed that he “had not heard of” Calley Means until seeing him promote a new book on the Tucker Carlson Show only six months before.