根据路透社审阅的一封信函，一组美国参议员已要求卫生部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪二世披露，他的家族是否将从最近涉及默克公司Gardasil疫苗的法律和解中获利。
A group of U.S. senators has asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to disclose whether his family stands to profit from a recent legal settlement involving Merck's Gardasil vaccine, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
RFK Jr. 的儿子是否从一笔 5000 万美元的和解金中分得一杯羹，而这笔和解金可能受到了他父亲的影响？
我正在调查。
Is RFK Jr.'s son getting a cut of a $50 MILLION settlement that his dad could have influenced?
I'm investigating.
《华盛顿邮报》编辑委员会指责我存在利益冲突，这可能使我对大型制药公司产生偏见，而他们显然试图保护这些公司的利益。所谓的冲突源于我在默克公司针对其Gardasil疫苗造成的伤害提起的诉讼和解中获得的所谓收入。问题是，我从未从默克Gardasil和解中收到一分钱，我的儿子或我的家人也没有收到。
在上任前，我已将任何潜在的Gardasil费用利益让渡回Wisner Baum律师事务所，该事务所曾在我的确认过程中公开确认此事。然而、和编辑委员会——在他们热切保护大型制药公司的热情中——继续推动一个虚假叙事，将大型制药公司塑造成受害者，而将我描绘成虚伪的反派。他们应该纠正记录——并花更多时间审视那些长期瘫痪我部门监管职能的真正冲突，而我现在正在拆解这些冲突。
我正在解雇腐败的监管者，并解散那些以往由严重利益冲突的“专家”充斥的委员会。我们正在拆除那些使该机构成为其本应监管的行业傀儡的企业俘获机制。为什么Reuters、Warren和WaPo要编造谎言来诋毁现代历史上首位敢于对抗行业的部长？
The Washington Post editorial board accuses me of a conflict of interest that might bias me against Big Pharma, whose interests they apparently seek to protect. The alleged conflict comes from money I supposedly made from a settlement in a lawsuit against Merck for injuries caused by its Gardasil vaccine. The problem is that I never received a penny from the Merck Gardasil settlement, and neither has my son nor anyone else in my family.
Before taking office, I relinquished any interest in potential Gardasil fees back to the Wisner Baum law firm, which publicly confirmed this during my confirmation process. Yet , , and editorial board — in their ardor to protect Big Pharma — continue to push a false narrative that makes Big Pharma the victim and me the mendacious villain. They should correct the record — and spend more time examining the real conflicts that have long disabled the regulatory function of my Department, all of which I am now deconstructing.
I’m firing corrupt regulators and dismissing the panels formerly populated by heavily conflicted “experts.” We are dismantling the mechanisms of corporate capture that made this agency the sock puppet for the industry it was supposed to regulate. Why are Reuters, Warren, and WaPo inventing lies to besmirch the first Secretary in modern history to stand up to industry?
