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December 16, 2025 at 11:39 am
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Defense bill directs GAO to probe tick conspiracy promoted by RFK Jr. - whether Lyme disease was bioengineered by the U.S. military
A must-pass defense bill expected to be signed by President Donald Trump this week directs a federal watchdog to investigate a tick-related conspiracy theory that has been promoted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On page 833 of the National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House last week is language directing the Government Accountability Office to investigate whether Lyme disease was bioengineered by the U.S. military. The bill is expected to pass the Senate unchanged this week.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who authored the provision, has previously attempted to pass similar language in 2019 and 2021. He has said he was inspired to address the issue after reading a book by author Kris Newby, who promotes the theory that the military created Lyme as a biological weapon.
“We are one step closer to finally determining whether the U.S. government’s bioweapons program contributed to the proliferation of Lyme disease,” Smith said after the House passed the legislation last week. “The hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans suffering from Lyme disease — in addition to the millions across the United States — deserve to know the truth about the origins of their illness. An enhanced understanding of how Lyme came to be will only assist in finding a cure for this debilitating disease.”
The theory is familiar to Kennedy, who in January 2024 hosted Newby on an episode of his podcast devoted to the conspiracy theory. At the time, he mused that Lyme “is highly likely to have been a military weapon.”
Smith and Kennedy appeared together Monday at a roundtable hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services about Lyme disease. There, Smith lamented how he had been ridiculed for his Lyme legislation in the past, characterizing a Washington Post article fact-checking the claims at the time as “mocking the heck out of me for offering that.”
Kennedy didn’t respond to Smith’s comments at the roundtable, but at one point during the event he repeated a false conspiracy theory about azidothymidine, a drug to treat AIDS known as AZT.
The drug, he said, “probably killed more people than AIDS did.”
https://www.eenews.net/articles/defense-...by-rfk-jr/
A must-pass defense bill expected to be signed by President Donald Trump this week directs a federal watchdog to investigate a tick-related conspiracy theory that has been promoted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On page 833 of the National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House last week is language directing the Government Accountability Office to investigate whether Lyme disease was bioengineered by the U.S. military. The bill is expected to pass the Senate unchanged this week.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who authored the provision, has previously attempted to pass similar language in 2019 and 2021. He has said he was inspired to address the issue after reading a book by author Kris Newby, who promotes the theory that the military created Lyme as a biological weapon.
“We are one step closer to finally determining whether the U.S. government’s bioweapons program contributed to the proliferation of Lyme disease,” Smith said after the House passed the legislation last week. “The hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans suffering from Lyme disease — in addition to the millions across the United States — deserve to know the truth about the origins of their illness. An enhanced understanding of how Lyme came to be will only assist in finding a cure for this debilitating disease.”
The theory is familiar to Kennedy, who in January 2024 hosted Newby on an episode of his podcast devoted to the conspiracy theory. At the time, he mused that Lyme “is highly likely to have been a military weapon.”
Smith and Kennedy appeared together Monday at a roundtable hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services about Lyme disease. There, Smith lamented how he had been ridiculed for his Lyme legislation in the past, characterizing a Washington Post article fact-checking the claims at the time as “mocking the heck out of me for offering that.”
Kennedy didn’t respond to Smith’s comments at the roundtable, but at one point during the event he repeated a false conspiracy theory about azidothymidine, a drug to treat AIDS known as AZT.
The drug, he said, “probably killed more people than AIDS did.”
https://www.eenews.net/articles/defense-...by-rfk-jr/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
