RFK Jr. and his Immoral Mission. He is a Criminal. His Position on HIV and AIDS is Deadly and Profoundly Flawed.

LinkedIn - Top Voice 2017 | Healthcare executive with 25+ years experience, now writing full-time. Author of "AIDS and HIV Related Diseases" (Hachette, 1996). Published in NEJM (2024).

August 25, 2025

By Josh Powell - Originally published in LinkedIn’s Healthcare Writer’s Journal

There is something horrifying about watching a man with no medical training, no scientific expertise, and no apparent moral compass lecture the world about HIV and AIDS from behind the seal of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Yet that is precisely what America is witnessing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the conspiracy-addled lawyer whom Donald Trump has inexplicably elevated to the nation's highest health position—a man whose dangerous delusions about HIV have already begun dismantling four decades of lifesaving scientific progress.

Kennedy's ascension to power represents more than just another Trump administration scandal; it is a moral catastrophe of staggering proportions. Here is a man so utterly divorced from scientific reality that he believes AIDS—a disease that has killed more than 36 million people worldwide—is caused not by a virus but by gay men's recreationa…